Shots Fired

[hvacker]

I was informed that in Albuquerque on duty police will at midnight of the forth, park their cars under bridges to protect themselves from gun shots fired in celebration.

This is mainly in an area called the South Valley. People have been hit and bullets have gone through ceilings. A lot of homes here have flat roofs so roof and ceiling are the same.
Still some still fire guns and often not straight up.

 

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[CincinnatiKid]

Bullets go up. They don't come down...
Be safe.
Peace ✌

 

[Helix]

Bullets go up. They don't come down...
Be safe.
Peace ✌

Yes but if you fire a gun stright up in the air once it starts to fall it's the same as dropping a bullit out of a aircraft. It cannot travel faster then terminal velocity. Witch most likely,,,not at all life thereating.

 

[Rodbuster209]

This has been going on here for many years, my dad who worked for the state told me that at midnight they would have to get under a overpass or bridge of some sort for protection from falling projectiles. I guess New Years eve is considered the worst for gunfire. He told me this when I was a little kid and I am now 51 years old.

 

[texasred777]

As a kid, I remember hearing a lot of guns being fired on the 4th and New Year's Eve. I never heard of anyone being hurt or any damage from it. I know there can be damage; just saying I never heard of any as a kid. Most of the guns fired were shotguns.

 

[BosnMate]

Yes but if you fire a gun stright up in the air once it starts to fall it's the same as dropping a bullit out of a aircraft. It cannot travel faster then terminal velocity. Witch most likely,,,not at all life thereating.

Yeah, but it would sure put a knot on your knob. I'm afraid you would look like Wyilie Coyote after the road runner dropped an anvil on him. In my younger days I'd usually shoot a shot gun with bird shot, or if say a model 1911, I might dump a magazine rapid fire, but that would be into the ground close by. Keep in mind that after I was discharged from the Navy, I've never lived in the city limits of any burg or town, so that's going on 60 years, and my shooting was all done safely and legally. At one time I was notorious for shooting blanks out of my cannon on the fourth. Of course having a cannon for a noise maker made me kind of popular, and I was invited to a drunken party, and of course, bring the cannon. I stayed sober at that party, and I believe God probably had a hand in that, just a voice in my ear, not tonight bubba, and luckily I didn't, because I had the fear put into me and from then on, I stopped shooting the cannon on the fourth, or as far as that goes, anytime there are drunks around. I'd fired several shots, everybody was oooing and awwwing, and I think it was the fourth shot, the fuse was lit, and a drunk walked up and stood about 5 feet in front of the muzzle to watch. Snatched him out of there just in time, and he wanted to fight because he'd been jerked around. Lots of people fire cannons with fuses, in fact I still do, but a cannon or mortar with a fuse lit is a gun out of control, at that point until the gun goes off, there is nothing in your control, so the key word is be very careful, muzzle loading cannons are not a toy, even if just firing blanks. From that party on, it's been strictly fireworks for me, but not this year though. Just to dry and dangerous, shucks, I caught the grill on fire cooking up a bunch of ribs, and that was the most excitement this year. Saved the ribs, but one side of two racks were a bit charred, still very tasty though. Pork ribs, corn on the cob, new potato's out of the garden, chili with beans, and watermelon, along with a couple of ice cold Bud's and family all around, can't beat that, and there are ribs left over for today. Yum yum.

 

[G.I.B.]

Witch most likely,,,not at all life thereating.

Yeah... tell that to the victims.

Here is only one example. There are hundreds of examples if you just care to look.

Dead is dead

 

[Limitool]

Good morning....What Helix said is a true statement. Straight up and then straight down a bullet would be hard pressed to even break the skin from terminal velocity. But a firearm shooting a bullet from about 70 to 0 degrees would easily have the velocity to kill.

 

[Slingshot]

I knew a roofer when I lived in Atlanta who was always showing me the bullets he found when he worked on flat roofs of buildings in the downtown area, and it was always a considerable amount of mostly pistol bullets. A child was killed several years ago in Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta, while attending a New Years church service by a bullet from celebratory gunfire that came through the roof and struck them in the head.
I did an online search and see a man in Houston and a boy in Virginia were also killed recently by falling bullets.
One of the first tenets of gun safety is to make sure you have a safe backstop when you firing a gun, and the sky does not qualify. Take that from an old timer with 20 years of high powered rifle competition under my belt, and over the years I've seen bullets do some really bizarre things.
Be careful, be safe, and don't shoot into the sky.

 

[gunsil]

Yes but if you fire a gun stright up in the air once it starts to fall it's the same as dropping a bullit out of a aircraft. It cannot travel faster then terminal velocity. Witch most likely,,,not at all life thereating.

This is not quite correct. A bullet falling from a great height can certainly kill if it is a large caliber bullet. In the days of yore archers fired volleys of arrows way up into the air to fall on the enemy and believe me, they did great damage to anyone below. The arrows reached a similar velocity as an arrow fired at close range, and they were not as sharp as today's hunting arrows. Human terminal velocity is only about 130 mph due to wind resistance on a large mass, but a .45 slug will reach a much higher speed and certainly be able to crack or penetrate a skull. Bullets falling from a half mile up will certainly kill you if you have the misfortune to be looking up and you get hit in the eye. It is sure stupidity and ignorance to fire bullets into the sky in any inhabited area.

 

[basque-man]

I certainly wouldn't want a 1 ounce slug fired from a shotgun to come out of the sky and smoke me in the head..........just saying!