SLOW MOTION: See What Happens To A Gold iPhone 5S When You Shoot It With A Sniper Rifle

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Gold iphone 5s bullet shot

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That's not the Touch ID button.

Apple's Gold iPhone 5S's are so rare - they're has sold out until October - that people are bidding up to $10,000 for them on eBay.

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We showed you a lucky handful of people who snagged one when they first went on sale last Friday ... but one of them landed in the hands of Richard Ryan, a video blogger who specializes in slow motion video of things being destroyed by gunfire.

This week's edition: The gold iPhone gets shot with a Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle.

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Ryan initially puts the gold iPhone to the drop test on dirt, concrete, and a into a bowl of water. To Apple's credit, the phone keeps working. But the phone fails the 50 caliber speeding bullet test. There's a Google Glass video too, if you want the first-person-shooter view.

See the video below. Spoiler alert:The iPhone loses.

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