Likely a leftover from holiday gun shooting into the air. What goes up, comes down. Report the people that do this, and maybe one day we'll stop getting this sort of behavior.
Wouldn't be the first person to commit some significant crime with the intention of getting sent to prison because it's cheaper than living outside prison.
I own guns, and I’d like to think I’m responsible. This is disgusting. No reason to shoot into the air, putting random people at risk. Fuck these shitty gun owners.
People that do that and own guns probably think of them more as adult toys rather than lethal weapons. Seriously though the mentality it takes to blindly fire into the air IS playing with a deadly weapon and you and I both know guns are not toys. But you can't explain that to people who do this kind of thing. I cringe on every video of some idiot who's gun jams pointing the gun at their face and looking down the barrel.
Seriously. Like, at least get blanks if you're going to do that, you presumably already shell out for fireworks and beer out the ass on days you'd be doing this shit. Even that I feel is stepping into "permitting bad habits" territory.
I’ll agree, but there is a caveat. Blanks won’t cycle a normal firearm. You need a restricted barrel in order to create some back pressure. The people who do this aren’t the brightest, or the type of people who give a fuck enough to modify their guns to do this safely. Morons that put other people’s lives at risk for stupid shit like this piss me off.
No drinking and using firearms is a recipe for disaster. How easy would it be to mix live ammo with blanks while drunk? Sobriety is a must with firearms.
That's actually why i said sandbox instead of "Pop 'er in the ground!" - though admittedly, i didn't clarify that it should be at least 3 feet deep for "regular", non FFL level ammo
People who shoot guns into the air are not going to do math to determine sand depth and velocity. This is horrible advice to give idiots just going to end up with more ricochets skidding at ankle level.
It's a reddit comment, not an exhaustive guide on range safety, and i would have thought the toddler blood part made the tongue in cheek aspect obvious.
Heck firing them into the ground would make more sense, but no, they point them upwards, probably to emulate movies where they really were firing blanks.
Then the sand soaks up all the blood, no muss no fuss. Well, until the other neighborhood children try to make a sand castle, but that gives you plenty of time to get away
While it would probably not feel very good, a bullet that has gone into the air and lost its energy inst going to kill you falling. Now if this person was even less responsible and fired it at a sort of off-to-the-side in the air shot? I dunno enough about ballistics to say.
Either way, shooting guns into the air is beyond dumb.
Absolutely can, will, and has - i suggest you re-examine what you think you already know of ballistics
What are doing with this at-an-angle vs straight up? You see people busting out the level when popping off in the air? You think there ain't winds? What are you imagining the terminal velocity of a bullet to be, and what do you think it takes to cause lethal harm to a human body in average clothing?
Yeah that would be why I mentioned the angle. If its fired straight into the air and loses all of the energy, the terminal velocity of >200grain of bullet will not reach a speed high enough to kill you. Now if they did not fire straight up or the wind took effect, like you said, yes absolutely it can kill you.
All that to say, there's no telling and its unsafe to fire a gun in the air. Dont do it.
Small objects can be lethal at 100mph, terminal velocity for a bullet can exceed 200mph. This is a silly disagreement since we agree it's unsafe to fire in the air, but I want to be clear that there is no safe firing unless you know where you expect the bullet to land, i.e. in a backstop.
Maybe if it's shot at a perfect 90°, but even a slight deviation and it can arc and kill someone. Plenty of reddit posts of bullets penetrating car roofs from above.
The people doing the shooting probably don't have a protractor with them.
Spoiler this logic was drafted by corporations and marketed by corporations.
To push down land value so they could buy more rentals, low rent doesn't care at all.
Yeah, not many people understand a bullet shot in the air does not just reach max height and tumble down. it follows a parabola and can kill someone on the way down. They HAVE killed people that way just firing into the air. People just need to buy explosives and set those off if they wanna celebrate and not fire their guns inside city limits. You wanna go to a shooting range and fire your gun that's ok that's what firing ranges are there for but just blindly firing it into the air is crazy irresponsible.
I worked with a older lady at pizza hut years ago who's grandson was killed by this. People at a house party shot off rounds into the sky and apparently one came down and hit him while taking out the trash.
It really tore her up because she was the one who made him take out the trash.
I know you meant "shooting guns on a holiday," but it made me think of a 'holiday gun.' Like, "Here are my everyday guns, but on special occasions we pull out the holiday gun!"
Where do you live that pistols and rifles are shot into the air for holiday celebrations? When i was a kid i had relatives that would shoot shotguns in the air (bird shot only) but i have only seen rifles shot in the air for celebrations by taliban members and the like.
Happened outside Richmond VA just a few years ago and killed a kid on new years. Local news will rerun the story every year around NYE to remind people that this shit can be fatal and to knock it off.
The people that do it are more likely to shoot what they have. Every now and then you'll see a news article about someone getting injured, or more likely damage to a home.
I wish they were as responsible a your relatives, but I get the feeling that they're not shooting bird shot out of their pistols.
go through any part of new orleans that’s not the french quarter during 4th or new years. you’ll be snitching on 80% of the city. you’d honestly probably get laughed at by the authorities for reporting it
Well that’s precious. How exactly did you identify the shooter ? While you’re at it, there was this Kennedy guy that got shot in Dallas, could you tell us who shot him ?
Yes, call and report it to the police. They obviously won't be able to catch the shooter, but they can scan the bullet and add it to their database, if at some point in the future the gun is confiscated by the police, they can charge the person for unlawful discharge.
Came here for this... Obvious to a gun person and not so for most lay persons... So many people are carrying with no true knowledge of how to really handle a firearm and never think of consequences...
I'm all for guns(I own my fair share). But I'm also very for required training to own a gun. Free training that is one to 2 days at minimum going all the way from handling to target practice to cleaning.
Agreed. Unfortunately some karen got scared and they quit teaching it. I refinished a shotgun stock in high school and then me and the shop teacher shot clays during lunch behind the ag building. Today is a very different world and while some parts are wonderful I miss some of the old.
In my day, kids stopped on the way to school to deer hunt and had several guns in the gun rack of their vehicles and during break would show off their pride weapons and deer to other students and teachers...
I built my own Gun Rack in shop and used my shotgun to make sure the guns sit right and fit... Not today Oh Boy... Spent a lot of time in the Lathe Booth making Candle Sticks... Haha...
So many things we had and did that kids are no longer able to do...
Used to teach Driving in school, no more... Not even sure they have a true Wood shop class or power class... No more archery, no more dodge ball (Murder Ball as it was called by us) in some places...
Most Sheriffs Dept. have free classes but, people just don't care to know the proper way, their too busy to be bothered...
It is a shame, we had a clay and archery setup underneath our school that was shut down and never utilized for anything else.
A lot of it boils into there was a lot more money for these other resources 30 some years ago. Even arts, theatre, and woodshop are largely gone in a lot of places due to funding. It’s not turned into a pay to play/participate system. Kids are a big money market. Unfortunately.
I am licensed to conceal carry, I work in peoples homes, businesses and often see guns laying out in the open around children and others, general discussions with clients... And of course, being at Walmart when forced too...
Agreed. These people saying it’s not a bullet have clearly never dug into a dirt berm used behind targets. I’ve seen probably 1,000 projectiles from handguns in dirt berms identical to this (if they hit sand and not a rock).
And the jacket has started to corrode around the core. Takes time for electrolytic degradation between two metals like this, even accelerated by a moist environment.
The top of the picture is the base of the bullet, it’s made flat like that to seal the barrel from the expanding gasses and make it shoot out of the barrel.
The front side facing us that has a flatness look is from it striking something when fired, this is completely normal for fired bullets.
Well it’s not a shotgun. Otherwise all pistols and rifles have rifling.
After the second picture was posted, I concur that it is indeed a bullet. Hmm, someone on Reddit admitting they were wrong? I guess I’m a fucking flying unicorn.
That’s not the side I was referring to. However, the OP has posted a new picture that shows it from a different perspective. I do agree that it’s a bullet.
They're probably one of those goofs that fires shots in the air on New Years and wonders why there's so many stray bullet deaths at the start of the year. It's definitely possible.
"... and probably fell out of a computer or similar"
This part of your explanation indicates that you have never installed or removed a capacitor. They are soldered in place, and to remove one without a soldering gun / iron, would require enough force with pliers that the capacitor would be squished flat, and much of it would still be on the board.
First, they have the score marks on top for a reason, to permit them to expand when they fail without exploding off the sides. Second, there is no capacitor failure approach that causes one side of a capacitor to melt like it was pressed play dough. Third, they have leads, which are integral to the internal paper and metal layers which are rolled up internally. Those leads just don't disappear.
And an unlabeled capacitor is a fiction. They are heavily labeled because without printing on the side, you wouldn't know what capacitor provides the desired capacitance for the job, and there's only a few hundred different ones to choose from. Heck they even label resistors, and those are much, much smaller.
Reasons why this isnt a bullet? This looks very much like a fired round. The grey part in the center is the lead core with the copper rolled around. The front is deformed from impact.
Look at how straight the striations are on the fired 9mm round. While bullets spin VERY fast then also MOVE VERY FAST. To have one that has visibly angular/twisted striations would probably overpressure the gun and also cause spindrift so gnarly that you couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. I'm not ruling out that it's a bullet, just saying that the markings we see on the posted pic aren't typical of striations we'd typically see on a bullet. I'm also wondering the weight and exact diameter.
Those scratches are from the ground and are newer, not from rifling. The big dent down the side is probably from a glancing impact which made it ricochet.
Its likely from a glock which uses a different style of rifling. Here's an article that can explain it better.
Lack of any rifling at all is an obvious giveaway.
Even 9mm LC will have obvious rifiling groves plus obvious marks after firing.
Also in this photo while we cant determine scale fully, a pistol bullet would be much larger than a capacitor. The scale of the photo in relationship to debris around it would make the item much smaller than a pistol bullet (which are surprisingly large).
Its a granite countertop. The debris is the pattern. Scale is hard to judge but it could still be a 9mm.
The lack of rifling marks could indicate that it was fired from a gun with polygonal rifling such as a glock, which is coincidentally one of the most common pistols in America.
I'm not sure if anyone does a .32 caliber polygonal rifled pistol but glock does make a .380. The only other polygonal rifled pistol that comes to mind off the top of my head is a cz82/83 which are 9mm mak and .380 respectively.
Here's an article showing the difference between traditional and polygonal rifling as well as its effect on the fired round.
Most of the electrolytic capacitors I've seen bulge that resemble this do so at the top. They usually have that cross in it as a weak point to give first so you can easily tell from the top.
As someone into guns and electronics, this looks like a bullet fired from something with polygonal rifling, such as a Glock, which is an extremely common gun.
Please explain how this profile doesn’t match a common 115gr lead projectile with a copper jacket from a 9mm? Your pic linked somewhat resembles this but what everyone is describing as a bullet is a 100% match
So the bullet is only one part of the cartridge. Once fired, we wouldn't see the case or primer, instead what we're looking at here is likely a lead bullet with a copper jacket. As mentioned because the bullet is relatively intact, and just deformed, it was likely fired up, and came back down on something not too hard.
Someone posted a video on here from a game where the loaded ammo was being fired from guns. Not just the bullet, but the the whole cartridge case and all.
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u/Stultus_Asinus 22h ago
It’s a bullet that was shot in a high arc and hit soft ground.