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Where do bullets go when guns are fired straight up into the air?
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cobane
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I thought they went into outer space!
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imaloon1
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Free fall speed of a bullet is not lethal fyi....
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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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What if you open your mouth and catch the bullet falling? I'm guessing that might require more than dental work. 
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Taliesihne
Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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imaloon1 posted:
Free fall speed of a bullet is not lethal fyi....
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The mortality rate among those struck by falling bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2% to 6% normally associated with gunshot wounds
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In the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[3] Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[7] Kuwaitis celebrating in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[7]
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In the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[3] Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[7] Kuwaitis celebrating in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Falling-bullet_injuries
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reesescups
Title: //Captain America
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Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
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cobane posted:
Where do bullets go when guns are fired straight up into the air?
Gods Butt, obviously.
But have no fear, it doesn't piss him off, he likes it.
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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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I don't care how fast this bitch was going when it fell on you from half a mile up, it would kill you dead.
It weighs over half a pound.
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Tipztoe
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imaloon1 posted:
Free fall speed of a bullet is not lethal fyi....
mythbusters tested this..
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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
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Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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Taliesihne posted:
imaloon1 posted:
Free fall speed of a bullet is not lethal fyi....
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The mortality rate among those struck by falling bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2% to 6% normally associated with gunshot wounds
Imaloon1 is absolutely correct.
The free fall speed of a bullet is completely not lethal. Might give you a bump on the noggin, but that's about all.
All of the fatalities caused by "falling" bullets aren't falling at all. They were bullets fired on a ballistic trajectory, which means that while the bullet was fired randomly it still had significant amounts of its initial energy when it struck its victim.
If you fire most bullets at a 45 degree up-angle from the horizon, it can kill someone if it hits them.
If you fire a bullet straight or nearly straight up, it's extremely unlikely to kill anyone when it comes back down.
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Kjarhall
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Koneg posted:
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imaloon1
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Taliesihne posted:
imaloon1 posted:
Free fall speed of a bullet is not lethal fyi....
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The mortality rate among those struck by falling bullets is about 32%, compared with about 2% to 6% normally associated with gunshot wounds
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In the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[3] Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[7] Kuwaitis celebrating in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[7]
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In the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, about two people die and about 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, the CDC says.[3] Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.[7] Kuwaitis celebrating in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War by firing weapons into the air caused 20 deaths from falling bullets.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Falling-bullet_injuries
Those are most likely bullets not falling straight down but rather having a trajectory where not all of their initial velocity is lost.
For further insight, we turn to Hatcher's Notebook (1962) by Major General Julian S. Hatcher, a U.S. Army ordnance expert. Hatcher described military tests with, among other things, a .30 caliber bullet weighing .021 pounds. Using a special rig, the testers shot the bullet straight into the air. It came down bottom (not point) first at what was later computed to be about 300 feet per second. "With the [.021 pound] bullet, this corresponds to an energy of 30 foot pounds," Hatcher wrote. "Previously, the army had decided that on the average an energy of 60 foot pounds is required to produce a disabling wound. Thus, service bullets returning from extreme heights cannot be considered lethal by this standard."
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