The Deadly Consequences Of Shooting in the Air
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Shooting Celebratory Gunfire in the air whether it's at 90 degrees or 45 degrees... IS REALLY STUPID.
Stop doing this period. It's extremely dangerous. You're literally playing Russian roulette with other people's lives and property.
A falling Bullet can reach speeds of up to and above 200mph.
Nothing about it is okay.
Go to the gun range in the morning if you want to shoot that bad
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They teach us that every bullet that comes out of a gun we fire is our responsibility. If you fire a gun up into the air, how can you be sure you don't at least injure someone? You can't, therefore you shouldn't.
That’s why I have a plasma rifle in the forty watt range. The arcs just dissipate in the stratosphere.
Unless your lawless enforcement and have qualified immunity
I was taught proper too, but by saying "they" you mean some good person who in turn learned him or herself gun safety above all and passed it on... Again, the people who do this sh*t aren't those "they" people, thats the problem.
always shoot down or into a backstop. We were always tought to never shoot into the air.
@@activatekruger446 The second I seen your comment, I could hear Arnold Schwarzennegger saying it.
I remember being a kid doing this once, without adult supervision, and thinking, “what happens if the bullet ever comes down?”. Decades later…. The More You Know. Thanks.
That took a long time to come down!
Goofy
It still don't kill anyone...this is the 2nd time in all of history and the 2nd time in a horrible neighborhood(both are murders except they could find enough proof of where they were shot and had to take the people on sites word for it). This is no different then the women murdering their kids and getting off on SIDS deaths...without proof of fabric in the lungs,bruises etc they have to take the families word. Gun people are the worst...don't even know their own ish
Same dude i thought i was the only one
Not even just in the air..Friend here was shooting his 22 in the back yard at a steel target..He lives out in the country..A ricochet hits a driver going past his house in the head. Luckly the guy didnt die. But he sued the hell out of my friend and they took everything he owned. Be careful you never know
I worked as a HVAC tech for years in Anchorage and found a lot bullets on the tops of commercial buildings. Some would be slightly penetrated into the rubber roof membrane. I must have found a couple of dozen through the years and always wondered when one was going to land on my head.
I was out in our backyard with my wife and our son and two daughters, about to celebrate new years. We had the firepit going and had seats around the pit. 2022 came and we hugged and cheered "happy new year"! Then we went in immediately and didn't come back outside for about 15 minutes because of all the dumb asses shooting their guns all over. Can't even be safe in your own backyard these days.
It's not about terminal velocity It's about RESPONSIBILITY
I actually asked a physics professor about this one time, when I was in college over a decade ago.
The argument of "terminal velocity" only applies if a bullet is fired perfectly straight up, so that it has no horizontal component to its trajectory.
In that scenario, the bullet travels straight up, it's motion stops entirely, and then it falls. In that case, it's terminal velocity would be the same as any other object dropped from a great height.
The professor was very clear though, that if *any horizontal movement was part of the trajectory* then the bullet would still be lethal.
@@scottcantdance804 still comes down to responsibility with firearms no matter the physics
Even at "terminal velocity" a .30 caliber projectile will still fall fast enough to wreck somebody... But yeah, most are still fired at an angle, which makes the projectile FAR less likely to tumble as much, and retain speeds greater than @200mph.
It's just dumb as hell to shoot into the air when there's no telling where the bullet falls.
EXACTLY! Well said. Thank you very much!
@@SaltyRagu7393 Right... But my point is that "terminal velocity" isn't even a valid argument, when people try to use that to say that this practice isn't dangerous.
The terminal velocity argument can be debunked using science, but even beyond that, the fact that people get bullet holes in their car roofs and occasionally get killed by falling bullets debunks it.
I love the terminal velocity argument... "It's not falling at the same velocity I shot it at so it's fine". As if a solid metal object falling at it's terminal velocity has zero potential to harm someone?
This message can’t be spread enough. We need to get the word out there more n more.
The mental gymnastics the people go through to try and justify unnecessary actions just blows my mind
Lol it's like asking Byron supporters why they voted for him other than trumps orange . Not tryna make it about politics just an example.
The problem with that is you assume they care enough to try and justify doing it, they don't care so they just do it anyway.
Unnecessary comment. Justification?
@@robm6510 to be fair, your reply to my comment is unnecessary.
@@bottomherout2357 there are plenty of reasons to vote for Biden. I didn't vote for him, but it would intellectually dishonest of me to say there were no good reasons to vote for him
But wait, I thought our fearless leader told us it was okay to fire two blasts into the air from your porch?
yep
what????
@@ghettochicken8420 Biden said to fire 2 shots in the air to scare off burglars.
He also said to do it with a double-barrel shotgun, to scare Intruders off.
Like you want to be reloading in a life-or-death situation.
Let’s go Brandon.
Terrible. I grew up in Los Angeles, where there is a lot of celebratory gunfire. I used to walk my dog wearing a military helmet on July 4th, and New Year’s. Dangerous! Crazy!
I once had a neighbor who shot a SKS in the air. When I warned him that what he did was dangerous He just said that the bullet would burn up in the atmosphere. I then reminded him of a young girl who had been killed by a stray bullet fired by someone who thought they were far enough away from where people were swimming at a local park. Always know your target and what's behind it is one of the important rules of safe gun handling. I like what I heard once long ago, every bullet you fire has a lawyer attached to it.
"He just said that the bullet would burn up in the atmosphere."
There aren't enough state supported living centers and mental institutions in the world for all of these people.
@@youbetterwakeup2449 Amen!
@@youbetterwakeup2449 Yeah, I'm thinking we need to do a bleach shock of the shallow end of the gene pool and get evolution working again.
Bullet would burn up in the atmosphere? Jesus Christ, that man deserved to have that gun snatched the fuck away from him. It's a bullet, not a orbital device!
No everyone knows bullets have the same ceramic plates NASA uses on space capsules and shuttles…..
Also if you wrap your head in tinfoil, it’s bulletproof and keeps the aliens from reading your mind…..
This is honestly one of the only times I actually agree with the "could have hurt/killed" mentality. You have literally no control or knowledge of where you're rounds are hitting, and it is straight up just dangerous and stupid.
"...and it is straight up just..." but no pun intended, right?
I was working at a car dealership on the south side of Atlanta and we had a bullet come thru the sunroof of a Hyundai on New Years Eve.
I remember when I first saw on the news that someone was shot in the chin by a stray bullet. The person was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery to remove the bullet and repair his chin. Thankfully, the person lived, but ever since then, my mom always hated people shooting in the air and so did I because what goes up must come down
In iraq, what was referred to as "celebratory fire" occurred quite frequently. Bullets go up very fast, and while they come down "slower" it's still more than fast enough to cause damage/injury. It's not as noticeable most of the time, only because the improbability of it falling on something specific. The Iraqis didn't suffer massive casualties and property damage from ONLY because their houses are made out of foot thick mud bricks, and their towns are surrounded by empty desert. That is generally NOT the case in the US.
I think the issue is people don't understand that an arc does little to remove lethality until you have an extreme distance. Shot 100% straight up into the air: can hurt but should not kill. Shot at an angle: much longer range but still deadly.
I think the issue here in the States is people shooting at an arching angle vs straight up. You see it a lot in videos.
@@soulknight89 The issue is firing in the air at all, whether at an angle or straight up, it's still moronic.
its funny you mention this... I worked with an immigrant to the US from Afghanistan and he told/showed us a funny tale of him out partying one night. Looked up saw something glowing in the sky and thought "what is that?" as he was shot in the chest by a rogue bullet from celebratory fire.
250 fps can still cause bodily damage too. And it can be very lethal
They don’t care, which is why they shoot at an angle, so that it won’t come back on them. Whatever happened to just popping fireworks? Why are you wasting ammo?
Especially now.
You answered your own question, they don't care.
All fireworks in my town. A lot more fun and nobody ( usually) gets hurt.
My first thought when I saw the video was who would waste expensive ammo?
@@williamturner6192 took the words right out my mouth..
Living and growing up around Atlanta every new year and 4th of july you will come out to your car littered with bullet dents. I said this was huge problem back in 2012 and here we are.
Guns and alcohol don’t mix especially a New Year’s. I’m glad you’re putting this out there’s a lot of idiots in St. Louis Missouri I heard some shooting fortunately I didn’t catch around neither did my house my apartment or my wife. Still it’s a crazy thing
This message has to be repeated often and loudly! The idiots doing this have no regard for the safety of others. On top of that they give all the rest if us a bad image as firearms enthusiasts. Thanks Colin!
I remember seeing a "Mythbusters" episode where they tested this, yes at a 90 degree angle.
Just a stupid thing to do. And bottle rockets are far cheaper.
Some people's kids!!
Thank you Sir for posting.
Bottle Rockets, among most fireworks, aren't legal in California. guess that's why we found a 375 bullet on our roof.
No they tested at 90 not 45
And bottle rockets are even more spectacular when you tie about 20 of them together to launch at once, lol. Just don't get drunk and launch them from your hand or you'll wake up the next morning with no hair on your arm and burned skin.
Hey that episode kept me out of jail.
For real. I'm way away from any city, out in the sticks and all I did at midnight was light off a single jumbo bottle rocket.
From the sounds of it there was alot of people "mag dumping" tho.
The funny thing is if they knew anything about guns they would just get a shotgun with some bird shot.
Or some dragon's breath. That would be the best of both worlds lol
My boyfriend is from Flint Michigan, and he can't believe how quiet it is on New Year's at our house compared to what he lived with in Flint
He said it sounds like a war zone there 🤦🏼😠
They would find bullets all over the place the next day.
Thanks for spreading the message . I truly appreciate it 🙏
Only an idiot would fire a gun into the air like this.
No shortage of idiots brother...
@@buckeyepatriot4594 no there isnt
79% of the east coast
When I went on deployment to the big sand box in "06" the people there loved to shoot in the air with AK's and anything else they had and we where told to stay undercover during those events but you could hear the rounds hit the roofs as they rained from the skies.
As always, great vids Colion!
We called that IDF and shot back.
One round came through the roof of our office and landed on my motor sgt's office chair.
Ahh the stories of the POGs lol.
Tell me more
ya, but their kids also play in and around RPGs, live grenades and full auto AKs....mostly do just fine while ours need helmet and pads to ride their tricles....
My neighbor does this on July 4th and New Years Eve. I won't let my dog out those nights. I hate it when he does that.
In 2013 a seven year old was struck by a .40 caliber round while waiting for fireworks with his father here in Richmond, Va., person that fired the round still have not been found
Who the hell mag dumps nowadays into the air? Not only is it unsafe, ammo is way too expensive to just throw away
The guy in Ohio who was mag dumping an AR in his backyard, when a police officer shot through his fence killing him.
Well, lets see, who does this...
Ever been too anywhere on the African continent? Because all of them. ALL.
And pretty much all of South America as well.
Hmmm... with tens of millions of immigrants streaming into the USA, since boomers took over... Im just gonna throw out a guess...
@@ronin8490 the dude killed an officer or...?
Safer then any day at the range personal or public. Numbers don't lie
@@phantomaviator1318 The officer shot through a fence killing a man while he unloaded a magazine shooting at the sky.
When I was a teenager we lived in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest service land. One day my mom was out hanging laundry when a bullet hit the corner of our house right next to her. It missed her by mere inches. My brother and I jumped in the truck and started driving the forest service roads looking for vehicles or people that could’ve shot it but never found anyone or any vehicles.
There was a sniper trying to take her out. Good thing he missed.
Even .223 goes for miles, some of the bullets in this vid were clearly from a large rifle. The search area for that is dozens of square miles min. Imagine knowing that & still shooting your rifle in the air.
It was Yogi the Bear
Here in puerto rico, a 12 year old girl was wounded by a bullet to her arm and an elderly couple also got shot in the arm... this shit has to stop
Back in the 90’s my Mother got up on New Years to find a hole in her mobile home kitchen ceiling with the bullet on the floor. “LUCKY NEW YEAR”
I've known since I was a teen that there's a difference between what happens when you shoot straight up and what happens when you send a bullet on a ballistic arc. Mythbusters covered it ages ago and bullets shot with any arc (nearly impossible to avoid) retain potentially deadly velocity.
EXACTLY!
Hal shot Otto Mannkusser in the ass in that one episode of "Malcolm in the Middle" where the family visited the ranch Francis lived/worked at, lmao.
Finally someone replied with some common sense and facts.
I just posted this on a different comment, I'm pasting it here-
I actually asked a physics professor about this one time, when I was in college over a decade ago.
The argument of "terminal velocity" only applies if a bullet is fired perfectly straight up, so that it has no horizontal component to its trajectory.
In that scenario, the bullet travels straight up, it's motion stops entirely, and then it falls. In that case, it's terminal velocity would be the same as any other object dropped from a great height.
The professor was very clear though, that if *any horizontal movement was part of the trajectory* then the bullet would still be lethal.
@@scottcantdance804 At some point the forward energy bleeds off, so the "any horizontal movement" has limitations. I may have to sit down and do a ballistic graph on some know calibers to see what angles this occurs at. I am not supporting shooting into the air, I'm just curious as to the exact limitations.
Years ago when talking about warning shots a local cop stated 'all bullets land'
Here in Sweden someone in a car was killed by a stray .308 from a military exercise... 4 km away! Extremely bad luck, but it happens. Air is not a safe direction. Perhaps in Antarctica possibly..
I was a roofer for 5 or 6 years and part of my job was repairing commercial flat rooves. I would find bullets and bullet holes on roofs all the time, if they can put a hole in a roof, they can put a hole in someone too.
Colion I'm so glad you did this video I work in law enforcement and people have no clue how many calls we get for damages done by stray bullets from incidents like this. Thank you
THANK U FOR YOUR SERVICE TO YOUR COMMUNITY AND OUR COUNTRY. WATCH YOUR SIX AND STAY SAFE.
I'm a roofer. I have an entire collection of bullets I've found on, and in, roofs. The bullets often penetrate the plywood decking, but do not fully pass through. If they can break plywood, they can kill or injure a person.
When I first started roofing I thought it would be a rare thing to find bullets on roofs. Turns out, its pretty common. When I work in the city, which is crime ridden in certain parts, I'm guaranteed to find at least one bullet.
For god's sake, DO NOT SHOOT INTO THE AIR. You may kill someone, but more likely you're costing someone else money to fix a roof leak.
How much does it cost the homeowner to fix a single bullet hole in their roof?
@@roosterqmoney At least $120.
Man you should publish a running tally for the people in your area. That's as real a wake up call as they're likely to get.
Yes I was surprised the first time I found a bullet the cause of a clients leaky roof. One reason I do not walk past the patio roof watching fireworks on new years eve.
Liar! Been roofing since I was 17 in northern Illinois and never have found a bullet in my life deformed or intact. We do complete tear offs,redecks the works...why are you lying? You're seeing damaged vents and little holes from hail and calling them bullets guaranteed or are just making up ish
Good on you for talking about this.
Watched from Yosemite Kentucky. Your message was great! Thank you.
Worked at a local range. My fellow rso, whom never should have been hired, showed me a video of him shooting a full mag into the air. What little respect i had for him had completely diminished.
I live in St. Louis, and New Years Eve sounded like a war zone in my neighborhood. I have always heard a little, but this year was way different. Luckily everyone I know is ok but I couldn’t sleep from constant gunfire from 11PM to 1AM.
Yea because nobody in your town or anyone elses will get hit from a falling bullet ever. 2 cases in all history both involved gang banging axx people. A small boy in Cleveland Ohio(probably shot by negligence just not firing into the air) and this chick who without enough evidence(the police had to side with witnesses). Both are murders without enough evidence being labeled like this because the cops don't wanna waste their life on an unsolvable case
I've got some family up there and they tell me that area is going to hell fast. Neighborhoods that just five years ago were considered safe are now having major problems :(
I was out with my dog shortly after midnight.
Nice to know where the pistol-packing idiots are.
@@scawarren most areas here aren’t as bad as national opinion would have you believe. You just gotta know where to stay away from. Mainly north city and the east side. But it got crazy in areas it’s normally safe that night.
There are neighborhoods in Savannah that sound like the sound stage for the movie Blackhawk Down on NYE and Independence Day.
I can't believe people do this.
There's ALOT of things people do that are unbelievable.
i can, lol
I can't blame people who do this.
@@robm6510 i can
@@J.M.415 Like voting for the Democratic party.
My hood in North Sandiego sounded like a war zone between 8pm and 2am on New Years eve. I support the 2nd, but could not believe how many idiots were out popping off live rounds.
Sad to say Criminals are the ones that commonly pop off during Christmas and New Year's eve.
There's plenty of companies out there that make blank ammunition for most all common calibers.
@Drew Bond its still better to shoot blanks then live ammo, your reply made no sense for this comment
@@rumrain838 Than* unless you're actually saying that you should start shooting blanks, followed by live ammo. 🤣
Oh, man. They were popping tf off here in Chicago. I took some advice from my cop buddies and hung out in a concrete parking garage for a bit until the gunfire subsided. I was out plowing snow on NYE and it was crazy out there.
I'm in Chicago as well, and oh boy were they shooting! I kept thinking about the thousands of dollars of ammo that was just wasted. I always take the family to the basement for about 30 to 45 minutes after midnight just in case.
@@TChalla616 probbly more then cupple thousand, since people buying it illegally gotta pay more
Dang! This is so true. Thanks for calling awareness to this
I remember as a kid, the neighbors always said that the gun makes the same noise if it's pointed down
Yup. I remember being a Patrol Deputy and my Lt telling us all to be parked under a bridge or something around midnight. At least in a bank drive through, car wash, etc until the gun fire succeeded.
Lets go Brandon
Thank you for this. It shouldn't need to be said......smh people.
Man I put up a post every year telling people about that & thanks for Honoring the Sista who passed in Durham NC 1st!!! I always say if you must shoot find a clean area in the ground, grass in a field or your own property to stop the round… I don’t normally waste my ammo especially due to the price hikes, so I appreciate anyone else educating to do the same!!! #Salute…👑✨👑
It’s like one of those times your dad sits you down and says “I really didn’t think we were going to have to have this conversation”.
One of my good friends had a bullet come through his ceiling on new years... it happens everywhere even in south Texas. Stay safe.
Like San Antonio 🙃
@@jtgoeswest3792 even more south bub lol
Thank you for another solid video and your continued advocacy.
Thank you brother for this video👍🏾
I hope people learn from it.
I took my two shots and felt wonderful, invigorated, brimming with vitality. I will be taking my booster shot
just as soon as the bartender gets back from his break.
As a physics major, I can assure everyone that a bullet going at terminal velocity can easily kill.
Those people saying otherwise probably think a .22 can't kill a person
Bird shot
@@kevinsedwards nerd!
I wanted to pop off some shots in the air when the clock hit midnight, but I was thinking about where that round might land, so instead I fired a few shots into the soil in my backyard while the fireworks were going off.
I recommend that you get some blank shotgun shells for next year then. Better than wasting money on live ammunition
insert ryan reynolds meme "...but why?"
A decent fix for ammosexuals is a large garbage can full of water and a 22 colibri round. Although my family does black powder with just a patch on the fourth.
I always shoot into the ground and I’m not worried about the cost of a few rounds.
@@titan_kirk 12ga Shotgun blank rounds $40.50 qty 25
Winchester Target Load 12 Gauge #8 Shotshells - 25 Rounds
$7.99
Nah, birdshot will suffice, since it is cheaper.
I argued with so many people when I worked at a sporting goods store about this. People just think they fly off into space for some reason.....
Keep spreading good messages Colion!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I can understand shooting in the air in a 3rd World country. They have lots of guns and no fireworks. But in America fireworks exist, are more fun, and thanks to the ammo shortage, much more cheaply.
Lol
Sound logic, my friend.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's illegal in every state. Stupid, but not illegal.
Actually, we have a lot of fireworks, too much in fact, so there are laws that restrict the amount of fireworks can be on the market. And yes, while we have fireworks on cheap prices there's still dumbasses who discharge to the sky, normally in the suburbs or villages outside the city, but for obvious reasons it's still freaking dangerous. (I'm an IPSC Shooter from Ecuador)
What goes up, must come down.
Thank you knew it was extremely dangerous but didn't know there were this many tragic stories and close calls.
I was in New Orleans on news years eve once and we walked by a crowd of people. Little did we know, a girl was killed because a bullet came down on her head and killed her. Crazy.
I’ve had one negligent discharge my entire life, and it was straight up in the air. I worried about that bullet for months, I actually scoured the Internet and news cycles in the local area in case it happened to of fallen on somebody. People on the Internet are funny with their need to prove them selves karma I could say to you all kinds of physics as well. The fact of the matter is what goes up must come down, and flesh and bone is relatively weak. Don’t shoot in the air people
No this feels like Colion telling us not to run with scissors, but saying that because some of us point out there is a proper way to carry scissors, that we should all be quiet. We all already know shooting in the Air is stupidly dangerous
And no one cares about prooving themselves, we simply hate untruthfullness. We leave that to the anti-gunners.
A bullet shot at a >80 degree vertical trajectory will kill no one. You can write out the physics equation and compare the peak veloctiy (in ALL vectors) when the bullet returns to the ground, and not in any directional vector would the bullet achieve a deadly velocity (technically you'd need to refernce a lethal-velocity chart for bullets of that specific weight, and to be super accurate you'd need to consider surface area - but there are generalized lethal-velocty values for lead bullets of certain masses. And in such the surface is negligible if using any standard bullet design - be it ball, miniball, or even modern spitzer shaped.). Still it is a terrible, terrible idea to do this, because it's to easy to screw up! But everyone knows this.
But Colion is hurting the cause by not understanding true falling bullets are not lethal nor roof-penetrating; he makes us look dumb.
As you lilely undrstand, for the same reason hale stones more massive than bullets don't go through your roof... neither do true falling bullets.
However, bullets shot at a volley angle can easily do this. I doubt Colion knows the history of volley shots in the pre 20th-century millitary though .
@@testing2741 Improbable, not impossible. Just don't do it.
@@testing2741 We had rounds fired in the air by Iraqis land in our living space fast enough to punch through the metal containers we were living in and embed themselves into the wooden floor. Now on paper that might not be "Lethal" to you but for the people who were nearly hit it wasnt exactly a great day.
I do "celebratory" gun fire but I've always done it into the base of a tree at about 20-30 yards.
Always appreciate your analysis and opinions.
Seriously. Thanks for making this one!
I was on my family's 150 acre property with some friends (we're all combat vets) and we were doing some shooting. We were all smoking and joking having a good time and laughing our asses off. While still pointed downrange, I laughingly demonstrated how people can't control recoil on an automatic rifle and fired one round a bit higher than the treeline (which was about 300 yards off).
To this day, several years later, I still cringe and am ashamed of that one round. Nothing ever came of it, and it certainly would have been news in this small rural county if someone was shot by a stray round, but I still worry about what could have happened.
The safety rules exist for a reason and you're never too "trained" or "experienced" to ignore them.
Over a tree line is a lot different than a falling bullet fired straight up, a lot more dangerous, but both are a no go
@@marsicogodofwar9280 Yup.
@@Johnny_Cash_Flow Where do you serve Marine Corps here 0311 02 to 06 tours
@@marsicogodofwar9280 Camp Lagoon, North Cakalaki; 0231, 02-07; Iraq 04 & 05.
@@Johnny_Cash_Flow Pendleton here lol I’m guessing you remember part two during Phantom Fury, I won’t forget that one lol
Thank u for bringing attention to this matter..idiots will be ideots but some will see the point & avoid this criminal behaviour
I was in Nashville on new years. The amount of shooting I heard, muzzle flashes and tracers I saw was unbelievable. This kind of thing happens alot where I live in Pine Bluff AR, but didn't know this was a such a huge problem everywhere else. People are crazy.
@KB I saw people walk out to their back porch from my hotel balcony and they just mag dump everything they got
I've been shooting since I was about 7 years old and my granddad took me in the backyard with a box of 22 and a Ruger 10/22 rifle. I learned a lot about gun safety even at that age and I learned how to responsibly shoot and handle a firearm. Firing a gun up in the air with something I learned was a major No-No. Years later whenever I took my concealed carry course I learned more about being accountable for each round that you fire whether it's practice or defending yourself. After learning all that it makes a ton of sense that people who fire their guns up into the air end up in severe legal trouble because whenever you fire that gun regardless of caliber with the exception of a shotgun firing birdshot you're going to be accountable for where those rounds come down and if they caused damage on another person's vehicle home or themselves. If you can't be accountable for where your shots are going then don't be shooting in that direction.
i believe the problem we are having is that bullets are not expensive enough or too many in production. in the early days when you couldn't get bullets as easily, well, you only shoot when you had to! maybe people are not as smart now as they were then? grrrr, i can go on.
2007- a boy in OK was killed by a stray shot from a State Trooper who was trying to kill a snake in a tree.🙏
LOL WTF! Not laughing about the boy..that's tragic .
Great video people need to be hold accountable for their actions on new years if they hurt someone then they need to go to jail period
I was at Carowinds, but not at the Waterpark when someone died from a stray bullet from a nearby range. It was about a mile and a half. Shooter was firing in the air.
I thought you got drunk, kissed everyone, and used up all of your ammo to celebrate??? You don’t want that stuff getting stale! Lol. I’m all with you, I walk outside every year and listen to all of the shooting. Listen for fallout hitting my house. This is why some people don’t like guns. I love guns, but shoot at the range.
On a similar note. When I got my very first recurve bow, a 35lber, I use to shoot my arrows in to the air, along our big side yard. I would make sure none was down range. We watched the arrow go up and come down. Saw it all the way. Years later, now with a compound bow, I did the same thing. My buddy and I watched disappear in the sky! Seemed to take forever to come back down. Fortunately, it landed down range, in the yard. Never did that again!!!
i used to do that back in the day after seeing some famous archer shoot a bow with his feet up in the air while laying on his back. lost track of one arrow, didnt think much about it. until i was walking back up to the house and saw it sticking out of the edge of the chimney, about 20 feet east of where my grandma was hanging up laundry!!! needless to say i never did that again!!!
We had an incident on New Year's just up the block from my home. Some jackass rapid-fired 20-30 rounds in the air. They tried to match the report of the fireworks that were going off at the time but it is really easy to tell the difference between the sound of fireworks and gunfire especially when that gunfire is occurring just a few houses down.
That video of an entire neighborhood shooting guns in the air is bananas. No wonder there are so many deaths in the cities.
I got my ammosexual sweater 5 years ago and I still wear it. The looks I get and the laughs are awesome 👌 👏 😎
The sitting president endorsed firing a gun in the air. Just remember to do the opposite of whatever Brandon says and you'll be fine.
Get a shotgun! Just get a shotgun!
That's the only thing I agree with him.
I'll bet he says different now though...
His example also used a double barreled shotgun to fire two (2) blasts into the air. Therefore, unloading YOUR weapon. Biden's advise is generally as useful as his first person life stories!
Don't forget the charges for discharging a firearm in city limits.
@@adampaulfarmer That largely depends on what city you live in...
Don't mess with ole corn-pop joe, he was a crack pot shot back in the day. Whenever he tore the corner in that 67 mustang, he would take off the tops of four light poles with his triple barrel shot-gun, just to let the cops know corn-pop is ah bhaaad dude.
I live in a rural area in Calif. and there are several people that fire multiple rounds in the air on new years for as much as an hour. Not only does it impact people but scared livestock (horses and cows) could run into barbed wire fences for deadly or permanent injury. My poor dog hides in the house scared of all the noise. Wish people were not so stupid. That is one wish I will never get.
As a gun owner who shoots a BLANK revolver into the air in a safe direction (blank guns can cause injury and/or property damage at very close range) to ring in the New Year, I think that those who shoot live bullets into the air are reckless a**holes. When I shoot off my blank gun I have all of my real guns locked up securely inside my house. My blank gun is a front-firing revolver with a bright blaze-orange ring immediately forward of the muzzle, which removes ALL doubt that it is a blank gun.
This really should be common sense. What comes up, must come down. Go to the gun range, or buy blanks.
Mythbusters did a segment on this.
Bullets falling directly down simply from gravity most likely will not be fatal, but bullets speeding in an arc can be fatal.
One of my coworkers had a buddy working out on an airfield during new years and got hit with a stray bullet right on the side of his stomach with enough force to dig a quarter of an inch in.
It's sad how many people don't understand that you are not just legally but also morality responsible for every round you shoot. No matter your intentions... You are liable for each trigger pull and anything that results from said trigger pull.
I remember watching a video by active self-protection a year or two ago where it shows a guy talking to someone and then he just dropped. He was hit by a stray bullet that was fired into the air, and if I remember correctly it hit him in the head and killed him. It was in Iraq or somewhere in that region if I remember correctly
I remember in Idaho growing up we went to a ww2 reenactment group and the leader had separated the members into two groups. One was about 1000 yards across a big field and the group leader said he would fire a 45 long colt straight into the air. Thankfully there were three or four of us that shut him down saying he could signal with the handgun but he needed to shoot into the ground almost straight down. Hindsight we should’ve just honked a car horn but you know kids.
Thank you, I seriously don't understand why people insist on doing this.
It is ridiculous how many people in Jacksonville think that this is the normal way to celebrate EVERY holiday!
I took ballistics in school. Fascinating subject. Things go up, things go down.
Very nice Hans, now get back in the Kubelwagon and harass those conscripts pushing on the CP!
It's almost like a law governs this principle. We can call it "The law of things go up and down"
Just like the stock market
I absolutely agree. I hate New Year's and the forth of July now and usually don't celebrate it anymore literally because of idiots who shoot their guns off. It use to be about taking your kids to "see the fireworks shows" now its about staying low to the ground in our own homes.... just not how I like bringing in the new years with my kids on the floor in fear of stray bullets... smh.
Happy New Year's everyone. Stay safe from Covid and use gun safety people. God bless.
I purchased a brand new car on July 3rd. On July 5th, I drove to work in the very early rainy morning. Unknowingly, my rear window had been hit by a bullet the previous night that hit dead center bottom of my rear windshield, denting the frame in about a half inch and spidering the rear window. Luckily the tint held it together a little bit. When I finally noticed the window, I had come out for lunch and thought somebody had hit my car in the work parking lot. It wasn't until 2 days later I found the 9mm bullet at the bottom of my driveway
Great info and video! What's not to like about just plain old blackcats? Especially after being half drunk.
That sucks. It is not cool to do that. Go to the range!
I remember seeing some guy shooting into the ground on new years eve.
This was in the middle of the city, this dude could have shot a water line or worse, a gas line. People are so stupid sometimes
Yeah we had one nearby where a dude got hit in the shoulder while shooting off fireworks with his family. A few inches to one side and he could've been dead.
A “friend” of mine (who’s a cop) recently took a report of a guy who stepped outside shortly after midnight on New Years eve and was struck by a bullet. The guy was hit square on the top of his head. Luckily the bullet wasn’t going all to fast and the bullet bounced of the guys head and landed in his driveway. The guy also had a good sized laceration on the top of his head and had to go to the emergency room.
Early 2000's I worked at a print shop. After New Year holiday, I went into the warehouse to get a pallet of paper. I noticed a hole in the 3/16 inch Masonite top cap. When I unwrapped the paper, I discovered a .45 bullet had penetrated an inch into the stacked, banded paper. I walked back to the warehouse and stood where the paper had been. I looked up and could see the bullet hole in the roof. This spent .45 bullet had penetrated the roof of a commercial metal building (including insulation and plastic vapor barrier), 3/16 inch Masonite, and an inch of banded (compressed) paper. Tell us the "Terminal Velocity" fairy tale again, Uncle Dufus. That one NEVER gets old!
When they mention terminal velocity, they are only considering one component of the velocity vector, the vertical component. The horizontal component of the velocity vector can contain a lot of energy and is NOT limited by terminal velocity. I am currently arguing with dozens of these idiots in the comments section of another youtube video. Way too many of these idiots.
Made up