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I have a little Llama .380 pistol that I picked up years ago that has been a good little gun for me. My cousin was mugged a few months ago so I loaned it to her for her truck and everything was cool. I got a call last week that her house burned to the ground while she was at work and lost everything. The family and community has been pitching in to help her, her husband and son get clothing and to clear off the mess from where her house was.
I gave it several days before I called to check on her. While talking to her, she told me my pistol was under her mattress at home when the house fire started because she had to drop her truck off for an oil change and she couldn't carry it with her at work. I think everyone knows where this is going.
My pistol was wedged in between a mattress and box springs when the fire hit the bedroom. Evidently it got hot enough to start cooking off the rounds in the magazine, blowing the floor plate off. When I picked it up today, it was jammed open with a stick in the chamber and I asked why. Seems one of the rounds was stuck in the barrel and she didn't know if it'd go off. I took it home and spent the better part of 2 hours trying to get the round out to find out that there wasn't 1 round, there was 4. Three of the rounds still had intact primers with burst brass and one had a spent primer. I dug 4 FMJ's out of the magazine well and barrel where they fired and spent another half an hour breaking the magazine loose.
Everything is soaking in gasoline so that when I start stripping the burnt plastic and soot off of it, it's not going to be terribly annoying but I thought I'd share with yall.
I gave it several days before I called to check on her. While talking to her, she told me my pistol was under her mattress at home when the house fire started because she had to drop her truck off for an oil change and she couldn't carry it with her at work. I think everyone knows where this is going.
My pistol was wedged in between a mattress and box springs when the fire hit the bedroom. Evidently it got hot enough to start cooking off the rounds in the magazine, blowing the floor plate off. When I picked it up today, it was jammed open with a stick in the chamber and I asked why. Seems one of the rounds was stuck in the barrel and she didn't know if it'd go off. I took it home and spent the better part of 2 hours trying to get the round out to find out that there wasn't 1 round, there was 4. Three of the rounds still had intact primers with burst brass and one had a spent primer. I dug 4 FMJ's out of the magazine well and barrel where they fired and spent another half an hour breaking the magazine loose.
Everything is soaking in gasoline so that when I start stripping the burnt plastic and soot off of it, it's not going to be terribly annoying but I thought I'd share with yall.
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