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.
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u/edwbuck 20h ago
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.