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New Years Eve "celebratory" gunfire
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A bullet fired up into the air will tumble down, and only reach terminal velocity, like other said. But a gun fired at a slight angle, the bullet could very well continue a deadly path. What I saw on Mythbusters was perfectly aligned guns firing straight up. I didn't see them test at what angle the gun needs to be for it to be a deadly fall.
I was going to respond to that one too but I kept deleting my response and moving on. I don't know what angle the bullet that hit your roof was fired from, but the terminal velocity was not insignificant. I do know that I don't want to be standing in the path of a .308 bullet that can still penetrate 3/4-inch of plywood.
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Must be all those Trump Voters.
It's a bit harder than you might think to get "straight up." The bottom line is people have actually died from falling bullets fired in "celebration." It's irresponsible to fire a gun if you can't be reasonable certain of where the projectile will end up. I loaded up a 50 round drum of .22lr tracers and shot them off in my slidefire 15-22. It was a great light show, but it was aimed at the same berm I always shoot into. That's the ONLY way to do it.
Frank_N_Stein
Grandmaster
I heard several different calibers around my house. A couple mag dumps...
Gluemanz28
Grandmaster
South Bend just changed the law to deal with this issue.
Frank_N_Stein
Grandmaster
Yeah Marion County has a law too. Well, more like a suggestion.
Frank_N_Stein
Grandmaster
Where is here?
Midnight in Fishers, some fireworks, no "MAD MINUTE" or detectible gunfire in my neighborhood, but give it a few years as the demographics will change and Fishers will look and feel like Lawrence soon.
No disrespect to you folks in Lawrence, just saying I remember when it was a nice place to live, back in the day.
No disrespect to you folks in Lawrence, just saying I remember when it was a nice place to live, back in the day.
eldirector
Grandmaster
All quiet in the 'burg last night. No gunshots, fireworks, or even loud music.
Lots of gunfire coming from private property during the day, though. I expect the same today.
Lots of gunfire coming from private property during the day, though. I expect the same today.
Gluemanz28
Grandmaster
I haven't looked at the law yet to see if the law included ND's but I'm guessing it does.
Not or sure how they will enforce it though.
Notalentbum
Expert
I heard quite a bit of gunfire in my neighborhood last night. It was mixed in with a fair amount of fireworks. I have a fair idea of which house the gunfire came from.
Matt
Matt
Only 4 shots down the street, woods runs behind that edge of our addition.
Dunno if they blasted into it, or up in the air.
The deal with CGF is that folks trying to shoot straight up, probably oops it at a 45 degree angle.
That's what happened a few yrs ago, when we lived in the center of town. Lots of shooting then, 13 rounds at a time, 15..........and even some redneck raining shot on my house (shotshells littered the sidewalk, yet local PD did nothing...........this after they came zooming around the corner and asked me where the gunshots were next day- told the officer it was fireworks, I saw the kids that did it, and told him of the shotshells all over the sidewalk, 4 houses down..............he didn't care).
Anyway, IIRC somebody was popping a 9mm in the back yard and most must have gone close to vertical. But drunkard popped one at low angle and whacked a house at 2nd story.
Funny, bunch of hispanics lived a couple blocks down, and the cops just let 'em blast every NYE. Ridiculous. Big enough houses around, I was shielded from them............but not any morons across my street.
As for CGF............the military did a study on it. Probably a little better than what Mythbusters put out (they have flubbed other stuff).
Dunno if they blasted into it, or up in the air.
The deal with CGF is that folks trying to shoot straight up, probably oops it at a 45 degree angle.
That's what happened a few yrs ago, when we lived in the center of town. Lots of shooting then, 13 rounds at a time, 15..........and even some redneck raining shot on my house (shotshells littered the sidewalk, yet local PD did nothing...........this after they came zooming around the corner and asked me where the gunshots were next day- told the officer it was fireworks, I saw the kids that did it, and told him of the shotshells all over the sidewalk, 4 houses down..............he didn't care).
Anyway, IIRC somebody was popping a 9mm in the back yard and most must have gone close to vertical. But drunkard popped one at low angle and whacked a house at 2nd story.
Funny, bunch of hispanics lived a couple blocks down, and the cops just let 'em blast every NYE. Ridiculous. Big enough houses around, I was shielded from them............but not any morons across my street.
As for CGF............the military did a study on it. Probably a little better than what Mythbusters put out (they have flubbed other stuff).
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Bull
And
Bull
Cuz science.
Gravity affects trajectories. Trajectory eventually causes a strike of the earth. Hence gravity will cause velocity to cease. Real world empirical physics. Not theoretical.
