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Originally Posted by DonDavis

I’ve worked on MR scanners countless times. How he got through the screening process is a serious breakdown in communication.

Has to be more to the story. Either he lied or the Technologist didn’t make the danger clear enough.

Sites pretty much make people change into scrubs these days. Far too many underwire bras, zippers and other metallic things in clothing today.

Whenever I enter a scan room I look like I’m doing the macarena checking for metal, wallet, dose badge, keys, usb drives, etc.

It occurred in Brazil. I'm sure there are places in Brazil that are state of the art and really well run, I suspect that most of the country is a bit more lax than most of the US. Stuff slips through.
Per the article, the tech told him to get rid of any metal and he forgot about his gun. It sounds like it was a gut shot and he survived for about 3 weeks before he succumbed to his wounds.

Originally Posted by flatbutt

WTAF? How did it go off?

I'm assuming either it was something like a 1911 with a safety and was cocked and locked. In which case, being forcefully pulled out of where ever it was hidden and then being slammed against the MRI machine, it could have gone off. If it was just stuffed in his pants without a holster, the process of pulling it out of his pants could have caused something to snag the trigger. Or, it was an MRI with enough magnetic force to do all sorts of crazy stuff. Maybe the MRI "pulled the trigger" for him.



Seems it's not that unusual for guns to get yanked from folks by MRIs.