La Bang!

Oh De La Ouche!

zing!


fark, what was that? Im farking shot! You farking shot me! I'm farkin' dyin' over here

How the hell does this happen, with trained soldiers, no less?

I'm assuming the Armee de Terre uses the same NATO-standard M855 "green tip" 5.56mm rounds in their FAMAS rifles for live fire.

How the hell do you load up a magazine with that, and NOT realize it's a live round, and not the crimped-casing blanks?

Sgt Otter:How the hell does this happen, with trained soldiers, no less?

I'm assuming the Armee de Terre uses the same NATO-standard M855 "green tip" 5.56mm rounds in their FAMAS rifles for live fire.

How the hell do you load up a magazine with that, and NOT realize it's a live round, and not the crimped-casing blanks?

Shouldn't that be obvious? It's the French military. When is the last time something ever went right for them?

"So wait, if the live ammunition is here, then where did the...uh oh."

Imagine the faux outrage if this had happened in the U.S.

/at least the guy didn't kill anyone

Sgt Otter:How the hell does this happen, with trained soldiers, no less?

I'm assuming the Armee de Terre uses the same NATO-standard M855 "green tip" 5.56mm rounds in their FAMAS rifles for live fire.

How the hell do you load up a magazine with that, and NOT realize it's a live round, and not the crimped-casing blanks?

This. I have never fired blanks before, but don't they have much less kick than live rounds? If so its amazing that this guy got more than one round off without realizing it.

Cheese eating surrender monkeys.com

Ah the French...love their fries, toast and excellent military skills.

Were they under the impression that the well of French military jokes was running dry?

Lookin' for French FAIL pix.

Hey! I think we're losing sight of the big picture here.

The soldier was shooting French people, so let's not all be so quick to judge.

It's a real shame the way a few bad apples disgrace the entire barrel like that...but you have to break a few eggs when making le omelette.

With the French, you'd think it would be the other way around: that they'd bring blanks to a real war.

cripes. our m16's use some kind of adapter/gas restricter on the end of the barrel so the gas operated bolt does it's thing. if you fire live ammo through it, it esplodes. so maybe that's what happened here - he noticed it right away when his adapter went blooey and stopped firing.

I could see this happening if someone else loaded the mags for him...but still. damn.

Even if he thought they were blanks, what the hell is a soldier doing pointing a weapon into a crowd and pulling the trigger? I don't care if you look at each round to be sure it's a blank directly before you put it in the chamber, you don't shoot at anything you aren't willing to destroy.

farking French bastards haven't been the same since they beat down the Kaiser.

Going by the highest rate of fire I found for a FAMAS (1100 rounds per minute) You could go through a 30 round clip in 2 seconds on fully auto.

There's a classic
FRENCH Fail.

logruszed: Hey! I think we're losing sight of the big picture here.

The soldier was shooting French people, so let's not all be so quick to judge.

Didn't the French invent "friendly fire"?

logruszed:Hey! I think we're losing sight of the big picture here.

The soldier was shooting French people, so let's not all be so quick to judge.

Thread over.

I'm French so I'm kicking myself in the ass here.

aevert:Sgt Otter:How the hell does this happen, with trained soldiers, no less?

I'm assuming the Armee de Terre uses the same NATO-standard M855 "green tip" 5.56mm rounds in their FAMAS rifles for live fire.

How the hell do you load up a magazine with that, and NOT realize it's a live round, and not the crimped-casing blanks?

This. I have never fired blanks before, but don't they have much less kick than live rounds? If so its amazing that this guy got more than one round off without realizing it.

They're...different. We use blanks for training, but in order to fire more than one with a semi-automatic weapon, you need to plug the barrel with a "Blank Firing Adapter" which creates enough back-pressure to cycle the action*. Hollywood prop guns have the barrels permanently plugged.



This is what I was referring to. Like I said, as far as I know, that's standard 5.56mm, NATO-wide.

*I think that's how it works. I just shoot them, I don't build them.

Don't know why people are always making fun of the French - they have nukes.

SomeCapn:Lookin' for French FAIL pix.



boneswah!

This tragedy could have been averted if there were more armed civilians present.

I'm French so I'm kickingshooting myself in the ass here.

FIFM

That is severely messed up.

Mock hostage situation?

Besides, why wouldn't the guy firing the gun not notice that he was really shooting people after the first bullet hit?

Is this another opium thread?
Burma Shave...

Not impressed.

I see everything I came to say has been covered.

Usually you have to use a blank firing apparatus so your weapon will cycle (it plugs the barrel so that the gas can build up enough pressure to push the bolt back). It is really hard to fire real rounds through a BFA.

In addition why would you be pointing at a crowd of spectators?

And blanks and live ammo look NOTHING alike.

Article says 16 people were injured including four children.

oops.

Did they get UN approval, before declaring war on themselves?

As soon as the were injured, medics quickly put little white flags in their hands.

In his defense, they were coming RIGHT at him...

Yes Sound:...In addition why would you be pointing at a crowd of spectators? ...

perhaps he was farting in their general direction.

/window seat please

What's French for , "Hold my beer and watch this" ?

Well, when you drop your rifle in surrender, there's no telling what direction it'll be pointing when it hits the ground and goes off.

SuperDuper28:What's French for , "Hold my beer and watch this" ?

veuillez tenir mon verre gentil de vin tandis que je démontre ma prise de balistique

cksewell

I'm French so I'm kickingshooting myself in the ass here.

FIFM

Quite a talent

viva la france!

I wondered if the soldiers with live ammo surrendered first to the unarmed masses.

If the french go to war against themselves, how do they decide who gets to surrender?

SuperDuper28:What's French for , "Hold my beer and watch this" ?

C'est La Vie

However, most military experts will acknowledge that the French Foreign Legion are among the best soldiers in the world.

Remember the story from a couple of years ago where a french hunter shot himself in the ass? to recap he leaned his gun up against a tree jump into the bushes for a shiat, and the gun fell...

How many times must we repeat the mistake of letting Frenchmen near firearms?

cksewell:SuperDuper28:What's French for , "Hold my beer and watch this" ?

C'est La Vie Guerre

FTFY

FunkOut:Don't know why people are always making fun of the French - they have nukes.

Imagine the horror if they ever launch them !

They might destroy Calais, then where would we get cheap booze ?

Someone never learned the Four Rules.

Obviously someone saw the Child's Play movies and was inspired by Chuckie to do this

Oh, le shiat.