Dining with Disaster: Loaded Gun Fires Multiple Rounds After Being Stored in Oven
“Do not store guns in your oven.”
By Missy Baker · September 9, 2024
Disclaimer: While this story is locked and loaded with facts, it may contain some explosive satire.
When we think of kitchen mishaps, most of us imagine charred toast or a spaghetti sauce explosion. But in Chesterfield, Virginia, a culinary catastrophe unexpectedly turned into a violent shootout that absolutely no one saw coming.
Local firefighters recently responded to a call for what they thought was a typical kitchen fire, allegedly beginning on the stove. What they stumbled upon instead was a hot oven filled with an unexpected ingredient – a loaded gun.
Talk about a dinner to die for! Here’s how it all went down: Apparently, someone in the residence was looking for a genius place to store their loaded handgun and idiotically settled on the oven. Hey, who needs a gun cabinet when you have a literal box of fire that also makes frozen pizza?
Unfortunately for the homeowners (and the oven), someone in the house inadvertently turned on the oven, not realizing the gun was inside. Did I mention that it was loaded?!
Well, you can guess what happened next. As the oven’s temperature climbed into the triple digits, the gun’s temperature got hotter than Satan with a sunburn. Soon enough, the oven turned into a mini shooting range, with bullets popping off like popcorn. The overheated gun caused five rounds to fire off from the appliance, according to WWBT.
Firefighters bravely opened the oven to find the gun sizzling, which, let’s face it, is a far cry from your usual batch of cookies. Authorities are still scratching their heads over how someone could think an oven would be a responsible place to store a gun, but one thing’s clear: if you’re ever tempted to multitask cooking and shooting, maybe stick to the recipe and leave the gunplay to the pros.
“When the wife said she was making Death by Chocolate, I didn’t know she meant literally.”
Thankfully, this story has a happy ending and no one was injured in the blasts. In the end, Chesterfield’s brave firefighters are grateful for their safe return from this “heated” situation. Charges are not being filed against the gun owners, but they have assured authorities they will look into safer gun storage alternatives, like the freezer.
If you’re a gun owner, consider this your reminder to lock up your weapons in a secure locked location. Keep yourself, your neighborhood, and your kitchen appliances safe. Remember, folks, the only thing that should be heating up in your oven is that casserole your family hates – not your arsenal.