Originally Posted by The_Dunedan

I don't know -where- you get this idea that people are trying to say it's safe. I have my own issues with the Mythbusters show, not the least of which is that they failed to recover most of the rounds they fired, which drifted considerably even when fired dead vertical. This did not permit them to get a statistically significant sample. Nobody here is argueing that this is safe, we're simply discussing the mechanisms by which it is dangerous.