Firing a Gun into the Air
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- scarabin0
they stick up in the clouds. duh
- sublocked0
Mythbusters already did this one...
- pressplay0
a 9 mm bullet fired with 1500 kmh goes down (after 1,1 km rising) with a speed of about 350 kmh. And yes, it can cause severe injuries and even go though your skullcap. (researched by ARD, one of the public service broadcasters and therefore quite reliable)
- Chief0
Ask these guys
- Man, I would eat my food up and get the fuck out of there. The doughnuts are shooting straight up!LukeO
- i don't understand why they would be playing music since they are all deaf.SrSamaurai
- good thing the NFL and ipods came into being.SrSamaurai
- The only place you are safe would be with these guys. Bullets fall down around theminv
- Jacque0
Assuming a straight upward trajectory, the bullet's speed will reach 0 at the apex, and then will only have gravity to accelerate it downward until it reaches it's terminal velocity at which point it stops accelerating, and that speed is considerably less than when it's fired from a gun. It'd still hurt to get hit.
Now, once the trajectory becomes more horizontal, then things get a bit deadlier cause you still have that horizontal momentum because the bullet never stops moving forward.
- Frosty_spl0
In southern california around NYE, they run a commercial with George Lopez telling you that firing a gun into the air will kill someone.
- Creativa0
many people dies for lost bullets shoot at air in Colombia.
- jaylarson0
"BUSTED / PLAUSIBLE / CONFIRMED
In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time."
- benfal990
its funny because when people do this, its like they are thinking that the bullets are disapearing. ... those metal pieces needs to come back yo!
- SoulFly0
it wasn't long ago I saw in the news about some cop who wanted to fire a warning shot, to break up a riot, but was scared to shoot into the air because he was afraid of the bullets falling back down and hurting people and so he shot rounds into the ground, and the bullets ricocheted and hit another cop...
Anyone remember seeing this story?
