The first officer retrieved his rifle and left the scanner room “leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor.”
Nice when they refill the MRI and need to quench it again.
Unless he was using steel case rounds, most ammunition isn’t magnetic, it wasn’t going to cause issues with the machine… he’s still a fucking idiot though.
An MRI works at 3T to 7T. At that range oxygen is slightly magnetic (Everything is magnetic, just not ferromagnetic). This can cause damage to the machine if it misaligned a critical component.
Thank you for the link. My (already low) faith in humanity just took a nose dive.