QI | What Happens If You Give Alan A Machine Gun? 

I've seen that bit so many times (new clips maybe, QI?) and it's funny every time

I've seen that routine lol

@@andymcl92 be very hard assuming fry doesn't do it anymore

@@METALFREAK03 By assuming you mean considering? But Sandy has taken over so it still runs...

Frank Spencer What was the joke then?

Greg Bolin yep. I’ve only fired an AK 47 in burst but one of the other guys in our stag group fired on full auto. At one point the instructor put his hand on his back so the recoil didn’t have him shooting the ceiling of our hut but he did hit the target a couple of times.

Did he really expect to be competent with a fully automatic weapon on the first go? He strikes me as the kind of person you can't teach anything because he thinks he already knows it all.

I'm ex army and I've fired several weapons that fire 7.62 mm rounds, including the AK-47 and i hit what I was aiming at...Mostly.

@@verisimilitudeteller Its a entertainment show get a life you fucking muppet.

@@minners71 Except the the guest on the show was speaking seriously. Why wre you swearing, it is only commentary on an "entertainment show"...

And he’ll shoot the moon.

@@nocalsteve which moon?

How many you got?

one bullet for every claxon

He'll storm NASA to find out the deal with the moon once and for all

One could almost say it wouldn't meat their expectations

SebSk Maybe they could have used a cattling gun! 😜

Change it to DIDN'T use cattle because of mooing targets and the joke actually makes sense buddy

@@ottojagenstedt9740 No it makes sense the way it is. I think you misinterpreted it. Also I don't know if this was intentional but you sound kind of condescending. Right or not there was no reason to be so rude

@@tommythecat7752 Okay having a "moving target" would mean more ammunition would probably be sold that's true. I was thinking the opposite, if people pay lots of money for the show/experience of blowing up a cow with a bazooka, unlike paying for a carnival thing with some tries of hopefully doing that. I'd assume going to a range and trying out a weapon, being able to hit the target is a good thing unlike a carnival thing.

@Maxx Kroes yeah thats how it works.

@Common Sense Why is that?

@Common Sense you're thinking of vegans

@Common Sense Bit of a self fulfilling prophecy, that one. There could be hundreds of Vegetarians around you every day that haven't said anything about their eating preferences, but ofcourse you wouldn't be able to tell unless they told you.

Vegetarians can still hunt for sport, they just don’t eat it.

TheHutchy01 That's called a Tommy Gun. 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun

A minigun is basically a little ferris wheel of barrels...?

@@gizmoguyar Hehe, yep!

Machine Mako Cannon at Junon

wordreet i think the Gatling Gun would probably be a more appropriate comparison :P

50 thousand people used to live here...

@@JustLiesNOR Naw it's a ghaast tahhn, you slaaaag

Knives only at the pool?

WOLVES!

I've done it. I've talked about a real thing that happened so many times that I then realise that I can't remember the actual event, only the "story" I tell about it

Basically all stories you tell are part fiction anyway. The mind often fills in the blanks with stuff that likely happened or would make sense to have happened. The memories also can change a bit every time you remember them. For a comedian it must be pretty usual, since they often get their ideas from things that actually happened to them, but exaggerate and change the pace and timings of the stories for better comedic effect.

Every time we recall a memory we slightly change it.

All of them!

As a comedian you tend to base them on true stories. If you don't they fall apart pretty quick.

They should make a show with that title.

@@minners71 Would never work.

@@tipperary1082 What if they used an acronym?

@@romaliop What would the acronym be?

@@tipperary1082 RI - Rather Intriguing

I remember seeing a carousel that had a brass ring you were supposed to grab, way long ago when I was a teenager.

Or she's not one to let something as trivial as spraining your wrist to get in the way of firing an SKS like a BAMF

@@TheMonkeystick hahaha

Does she even have her finger on the trigger?

That's what they call it in Vietnam.

@@mattdickie4696 you're quite right, and that's very much what it was

@@blah__3000 Yes, well of course it's obvious for them to call it "The American War", so as not to confuse it with the war with the Japanese, or the French, or the Chinese, or the Kampucheans. However, for the rest of us it's just a lot easier to name it after the country it (mainly) happened in.

@@bp837 I don't disagree.

blahblahblah3000 you mean the continuation of the French war?

Mr Fry said that in law, fairgrounds could still have them. I imagine the insurance would be prohibitive though.

I knew a guy who was a chief constable who went to the US at one point. They gave him a go with a whole range of weapons. He said that with 5he AK on single shot it was impossible to miss.

@@Chilukar It's the same with most automatic small arms. Modern assault rifles are excellent marksman platforms, doesn't mean you can't spray like a lunatic.

@@oliver8928 It's why full-auto has been removed from almost all assault rifles. Semi-automatic fire is much more accurate. That's why the distinction between civilian and military assault rifles is pretty much non-existent now.

@@DomWeasel The term "assault rifle" is bullshit. For most of history, there was no appreciable difference between civilian and military rifles. By the time fully-automatic rifles were readily available as individual weapons (as opposed to crew-served), the fully-automatic firearm was already heavily regulated in the US.

@@jsquared1013 interesting tidbit is that for a long time civilian rifles could be and were more advanced than military issue stuff - because budgets and logistics are very important when equipping a whole army. So the wealthy citizen could shop for the fancy new toys while the footsoldiers got what was cheap enough to produce and buy en masse. (That's one reason why flintlocks were more used by militaries than wheellocks, even though the latter predates the former)

You still have servants holding rings in the Netherlands?

@@CJT3X lol nah :P the 2nd Carrousel operator usually does that ring thingy :)

I have been on one where you still give the kids a lance. It's called a 'Jousting carousel' now.

@@Ansible1000 yeah i been on one of those as a kid, but didnt know they still were still around as such, great fun for kids :D

You have secondary operators in The NLs? In America rides are usually pretty understaffed... oftentimes of questionable mantienence.

Wubba mah SKS!

It typically has loose tolerances which adds to reliability but takes away from accuracy.

Yeah it must be complete bollocks Stephen's assertion you can use "up to a .23". That includes the vast majority of battle rifles out there chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO or similar intermediate cartridges like the 5.45x39mm Russian, which is exactly .22". I didn't know (but it makes perfect sense) that they used frangible cartridges, thanks for that info!

In the 50s and 60s, I most definitely used .22 firearms (rifles) at the fairground.

@@johnnunn8688 They were firearms (ie. powder powered, rather than air), but the ammunition they used in them was frangible, ie. ammunition designed to disintegrate into very small particles on impact. This was to avoid the risk of ricochets.

@@BedsitBob, wrong. I’ve been doing some research. As recently as 2009, there was a rifle range at the Dorset Steam Fair, using .22LR. Also, until even more recently, the Lamb Inn, Devizes, had a club range. There’s plenty more examples out there.

@@johnnunn8688 There's a difference between a rifle *range* and a shooting *gallery* . A rifle range will be many yards long (typically 25 yards), with a proper backstop, whereas a gallery, such as you will find on a fairground, will be a few yards long, with a very basic bullet catcher, often no more than a vertical steel plate. Also, gallery rounds don't look all that different to regular ammo. They look much like .22 Short, or shortened .22LR. www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Box-of-Remingtons-1024x925.jpg

Before the ban in the late 80's, I used to own a .44 Magnum. Specifically an IMI (Israeli Military Industries) Desert Eagle semi automatic. What a kick!

You can watch it here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rT-Jd3LOjfY.html from around 5.25 onwards.

Yes it is

Britbox.

I wonder how many people suffered a broken wrist on account of this?

No it's because they keep the earth wound up. Seriously, try stopping all the carousels around the world and it would stop spinning. #TrueFacts

Nah it's because the horses would be going arse first if it went in the other direction...

@@telectronix1368 Is that why time moves forward? Why it's always day-time then night-time and never the other way round?

Yep, Alan Davis was a child soldier in Vietnam. Totally canon. He had to pay for his own bullets too. Guess he must have been fighting on the capitalist side.

Nah, the Brits somehow managed to stay out of that war.

@@grahamlive to busy spying

It was probably on a tourist trip in the last 10 years.

DcLoki12 jeremy was talking about full auto....

That's why I think gun laws around automatic is dumb and stupid. Automatic makes the weapon less effective.

@@kablouserful Not if you are vaguely aiming at a crowd.....

@@kablouserful but in a crowded area accuracy doesnt really matter does it.

From what I understand, Vegas automatic weapons are usually chambered in 9mm parabellum for cheaper costs. That reduces the kick a fair bit, despite being exactly the same bullet weight. The soviet rounds kick about 2.2x harder than a 9mm round.

You use 22 short and put some sandbags in front of the back wall, you will be ok.

They use _extremely_ low power cartridges with "frangible" (i.e. turns into dust when they hit anything) projectiles that would have a hard time penetrating a t-shirt. But it'll pop a balloon or knock over a kewpie doll. If you got shot with one it might leave a bruise or a blood blister, but it certainly isn't going to go through the "wall at the end of the range." And even if it did through some miracle make it through the wall, even before it went through the wall (let's say it was a tent) it couldn't possibly do any damage to anyone. I have pellet guns that are more powerful and I've been shot with them. It wasn't pleasant, but I didn't bleed.

@@mikemiller4065 Exactly. Certainly not a 22 'long'. I shot a duck in the head once with a .22 long from 100 yards away. Enough power for a perfectly flat trajectory. People who use shotguns just aren't playing fair. If shooting ducks with anything can be said to be fair.

Carnival shooting ranges generally use .22 CB or BB Cap rounds, which were designed for indoor target shooting. They don't contain any powder, and the primer is the only propellant.

@@DanDownunda8888 Why would you shoot a duck in the head?

Somebody once went through the series and calculated that around a dozen people died

@@Trek001 correct and each of the a team was shot at least once except Murdock

@@deanmoncaster Murdock was shot. Mr. T even offered to give him blood if a transfusion would have worked. It was a clip-show.

@@TWX1138 you are right he was shot twice. I meant it was Hannibal that was never shot

Course you have to pick out the shrapnel, dirt, and bone but still good eating i suppose.

AK-107 or Galil for me thanks.

That would be tutu much...

Do you still have the footage of that? I would like to see it. I've only been able to see people firing the AKM variant from ca 59-74 and the AK-74 variant. And those are fairly well-made. Despite the fact that most Taliban, ISIS, and Al Qaeda fighters tend to run around with AKM's as their weapon of choice... That and the Chinese knockoff rifle that was used in Vietnam called the Type 56.

He's quite a videogamer, according to old Top Gear shows when he mentions it a few times.

@@zetetick395 This is valuable info. Thank you.

@@jadecook9963 That's me, equable and informative! :D (and slightly insomniacal)

@@zetetick395 xD

3 round burst. Hm, I know that there is a polish ak in 5.44 that have a three burst, but the old 7.62, never heard of that.

You even learn in Counter Strike to even shoot in small bursts! xD

I see no dislikes.

No, the AK-47 is NOT a precision instrument.

he is left handed but right eyed (or the other way round) so if he fires it, the bullets hit his arm

@@DrDespicable on full auto not many guns are. The AK47 is precise enough on semiauto.

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