When I was in grade school, we had a substitute teacher that was hit on the head by a stray bullet on new year's eve. They had to take out a piece of her skull and and put it in upside down. After rehab she could no longer taste or smell. And who knows what else. She sure got lucky. I understand that a bullet out of a gun can cause more damage than a bullet in terminal velocity, but to claim they don't pose danger is not only ignorant, but downright dangerous.
I came out to my truck one morning to go to work, and found a 9mm bullet lodged in my hood right over top of my carburetor. Falling bullets will do damage!!!
Think of the motor vehicle as a M O A B , The "Massive ordinance, Air-Burst", bomb on wheels. So yes, some explode really badly. Bradley's do too when carrying fuel inside with the troupes. Ford Pinto... just as bad.
As a helicopter guy we fly over crazy parts of town quite often and I have come to accept that people are stupid and there’s nothing you can do about it.
This happened to my sister around 5 years ago. She was casually sitting in backyard when a bullet hit her in the foot. She didn't have any idea what happened but she came inside screaming she had been shot in the foot. Thankfully, it didn't fracture any bone in her foot and she recovered completely within 3 weeks. She never had a problem due to this incident afterwards, but this news had spread like crazy in our family.
@@beargillium2369 Yes, it went through the skin and through the shoe. My sister has kept the bullet eversince as a memory. My guess is it's a 7.62x39mm bullet.
As an Iraqi, this is my biggest fear ever whenever I'm on the streets. Because really Iraqi people shoot real fatal bullets inside crowded areas into the air not just for celebrating a football match win but also for engagements, marriage, having a newborn baby, someone precious passing away, someone recovering from a serious injury or illness, someone's son just got circumcised, and of course when two clans have a conflict for some silly reason and that is the worst-case scenario.
Ironic how they do the shooting for childbirth, death of a loved one, and someone getting healed. One person gets better (or dies) and suddenly 6 more are injured in the celebration. I think informing people a little better could help a bit.
@@jamesnewcomer4939 well, of course there is the rubber bullets but the idea of shooting real bullets is the reason for the habit in the first place just to show off in most cases and brag about it
@@superymariowest2403 that really happened so many times here, actually some years earlier, there was a wedding in our neighborhood and someone with a light machinegun started firing into the air and lost control of it and it went down with his hand on the trigger! blew up the electricity main unit in the street and killing the cousin of the groom on his way down, it was disastrous, the boy's father and other cousin tried to commit suicide after 2 days afterward but people held them down.
Your scare is reasonable~ I have lul moment hard when those Afghanis do that celebration as US retreatment end up injured of dozens of civilians city dwellers
As a retired roofer, I have seen the damage a falling Bullet can do. A bullet can go through shingles, and through the decking, and lodge into the rafter. Here in New Mexico, I stay indoors on New Years eve.
This is a common occurrence in our country every new year’s eve and sadly with some fatalities. I don’t understand how some people can indiscriminately discharge their firearms like that thinking it will magically disappear in the air.
Honestly I feel like those ppl are unlicensed and not really caring about those important details… smh us licensed owners know ammo is not cheap (anymore) and care about where our Bullets land…
June 2017 in a school yard in Menidi Athens 11 years old Mario died from a bullet falling from the sky. It was a celebration day due to summer holidays, last day for Mario in this earth, noone arrested for this murder.
@@ΒασίληςΜπαλτσιώτης no she didn't, she was killed by bullet that still had lateral momentum. For it to be falling either her or one of the people she was with would have fired it.
Happened to a friend of mine when he was young living in the Philippines. He was looking up for whatever reason when a bullet struck him in the forehead, thankfully for him it didn't do much more then give him a slight imprint scar.
This is the usual outcome of getting hit by bullets fired straight up. Almost all incidents of fatalities from falling bullets are the result of firing at much shallower angles.
@Tony Stark is AR 15 got many sorts of caliber? I don't know about caliber as so stupid of me coz I remember the one that I own is a shotgun and a .22😂
Several years ago I was the RN in the ER of a small hospital when an older man was brought in from a local golf course with an arm injury. The arm had been bandaged by the EMS so my concern was his overall condition since he was a heart patient. After assuring he was stable I removed the dressing while interviewing him to see how he was injured. I seems he was sitting in an open golf cart and was resting his arm on his leg when he suddenly got a severe pain in his arm just above his wrist. Upon removing the dressing, I discovered a round "hole" in his arm that went completely thru his arm. I recognized it as a bullet wound. Upon further examination he complained of his leg hurting. He had blood on his pants which I thought came from his arm but after removing his pants I discovered another entry wound and a thru and thru leg wound. When examining his pants I found a hole in the top of the leg but not in the bottom. Since the was now stable , I called the golf course and talked to the police who were there and asked if they had looked in the golf cart. They had not so I asked if they would because I believed this man had been shot. They found a bloody 223 cal bullet on the floor of the cart. The bullet came down almost vertically with enough force to go thru his arm, the first layer of his pants, thru his leg but could not go thru the other part of his pants. When he stood up to get out of the cart the bullet fell out of the leg of his pants onto the floor of the cart. If I wasn't there I would have a hard time to believe it but it happened. You can't make this stuff up.
As a 8 year old child I was worried about the bullets shot in the air during running competitions. Only a couple years after did I realize those were blank shots, but anyway it's embarassing that an 8 year old me was more worried about celebratory gunfire than most countries in the world are nowadays.
As a child we tend to have a more direct approach to everything, because learning involves observing and we WANT to learn or at least understand. At some point we drop our learning attitude and instead go into a state of "who cares, it has always been like that".
@@groundloss Speak for yourself. I always seek answers. That "Always been like that" and "who cares" approch is the result of those that are used to ignorance. Honestly, I find that more dangious then any falling bullet. I can trust an idiot that tries to use their brain. I can't trust someone that knows a lot if they say ignorance might be for the best. The very statement contradicts. How can you know if you don't know? Thus,I make it about what people don't know. Goes further then "I know best". A shame the same can't be said for so many others.
This is a common practice in my area. The local government tells people not to do it, but people do it anyway, because they’re… people. I’ve explained why it’s dangerous to a few neighbors, but I’ve learned that individuals prone to firing up into the air find it hard to understand the physics involved. I will refer them to this video in the future. I’m not getting my hopes up.
After a serious accident in the 90's I spent a few weeks in a hospital and shared a room with a Swiss Red Cross worker who had been shot in Afghanistan while working in an office. It turned out he was hit by a stray bullet from two brothers who had a falling out, and decided to have a shootout over a mile away. The bullet came down, went through a window, hit him in the back of the head and came out through his mouth. In the process it smashed his upper pallet and knocked half his teeth out. He was on his way to a full recovery when I got discharged.
This actually happened a few years ago in an L.A area middle school. Students were on recess break and were making lines to buy snacks. All of a sudden out of nowhere, and without any gun shot sound, a 12 year old boy yelled and immediately fell to the floor. He had been struck in the upper shoulder/ neck area by a falling 9 mm bullet. He survived, but he was in critical condition for a while.
This is a fairly common occurrence, several people were struck by Falling bullets in North Carolina this year during New Year's celebration. With that said, less than 500 people are accidentally killed by Firearms each year in the US
This happened in the town I grew up in back in the 1970's. A guy working on his roof was found dead. They first thought it was cardiac until they did an autopsy and found he had been shot. After figuring out the angles - they determined someone had fired into the air. Long story short detectives found that some people celebrating in a nearby park a couple miles away (4th of july party) had randomly fired a rifle, sometimes in the air - which one of the bullets found its way into the guy working on his roof, killing him. It took several months to crack the case.
I had this debate with a co-worker once and it just astonished me how this person, who did have some background in physics, could not see how dangerous this was. "It's just falling from sky" he said. He couldn't grasp the energy equation minus friction meant a still very dangerous projectile. I mean, in warfare, archers would shoot arrows up at a more or less 45 degree angle. Did not the enemy fear such projectiles?
45 degrees isn’t 90 degrees. At 45 the object maintains all of its horizontal speed. At 90 there is no horizontal speed. A bullet falling from the sky wouldn’t go through a leather jscket
@@bcuniverse_ how you came to that conclusion? 2 years ago a stray bullet went through a tin plate my father standing beneath. Luckily he didnt get hit. I hope you can grasp that a tin plate is a lot sturdier than a leathet jacket
I have never understood the urge to fire a gun into the air. Starting with my first hunter safety course, I was always taught that I was responsible for every round that leaves my firearm.
The urge is to fire the gun. People have the decided that doing it in the air is the safest thing for them to do without feeling the responsibility of potentially killing somebody
@@thottydagod457 🤦and that's why we need firearm safety courses to be far more common. You fire a gun at a TARGET. You DO NOT place your finger on the trigger until you've identified your target AND what's beyond it. Firing a gun into the air is as reckless as driving a car 110mph down a city street.
A course taken usually at a young age as a safety course to make sure you know how to properly handle a firearm safely especially since hunting is usually done with a firearm, pretty common to take one in rural areas
@@terence602 safety course to make sure you know how to handle a firearm and all the laws of hunting for youth hunters, often required for a youth hunting license I took one when I was like 14 I think. It's boring but kinda good information for kids that young considering hunting accidents do happen
About 50 years ago, my father's business developed a leaky roof. When he climbed to find the problem, he discovered a spent bullet had created a hole in the roof. He removed the bullet and patched the hole, and all was fine and dry again. I've always remembered that story, though. Yeah, those falling bullets are dangerous indeed!
I once found an intact bullet on the roof of a parking garage, always wondered how it got up there. It had rifled grooves on the sides, and had clearly been fired, but evidently hit nothing.
"On" the roof and not "in" it? Your personal evidence seems to contradict this videos conclusion. (Almost every bullet fired into air comes back down doing no damage. Literally 99.999%)
@@therealblackout3659 I've found 2 bullets lodged in roofs in not great neighborhoods. Almost passed through the shingles, id think that might penetrate soft flesh.
I owned a machine shop in Houston, Tx. One morning, I opened my shop to find a bunch of assorted nuts & bolts scattered on the concrete floor. My 1st thought was a "small animal" knocked the plastic tray off of the shelf. I picked up the tray & found that it was broken. As I picked up the nuts & bolts, I found a "slug". I looked up & could see light coming through a hole in the metal roof made by the bullet. If a falling bullet could pierce a metal roof, shatter a plastic tray & knock the entire tray & its contents of nuts & bolts off of a shelf, then it could seriously hurt or kill you.
As an aircraft mechanic, I've dug several rounds where they penetrating the wings of parked aircraft. Also, we've had several roof leaks from falling bullets. Atlanta, you know!
~~ population density is a large factor - but I've lived in very rural areas and seen plenty of knuckleheads in the sticks do it - just a much better chance out there that it only hits the dirt.
I live in Dekalb County, in the Atlanta area, and I can confirm that you are right. People around here are stupid as Hell. They drive like lunatics, with no fear of death or bodily harm. And that cluelessness extends to celebratory gunfire in the subdivisions on every major holiday. They seem completely incapable of envisioning the consequences of their actions.
A few years back, our home received a few falling bullet strikes. A home about 1 1/4 miles away (In visual distance, but diagonal to the roads) was celebrating new years or July 4th. We could hear them not just shooting, but doing rapid fire. We were out of the front patio, but when we something hit the patio roof, we came inside. We were "gifted" during the night, with cracked windshields on 2 vehicles. Many of us in the neighborhood called the cops... but they couldn't be bothered to show up.
Here in the Philippines during New Year celebrations, in the 80's to early 2000, there were several emergencies regarding people hit in the head with bullets and bullets found inside homes were a hole can be seen on the ceiling. Due to this the government became very strict in prohibiting firing guns during New Year. Even now, there are still some rare cases but no longer as many as before. Even the police during New Year, the nozzles of their guns has marked sealed taped on it to make sure none of them would use their guns on that day except on special emergency reasons.
When I was in younger, a young lady I was dating was struck in the head by a falling bullet. It was on New Years Eve and she was in a group of people...nobody in the group heard a shot from nearby and it was determined that the impact was from directly above and not from ground level. This was a devistating Injury and although she survived she had to have more than one brain surgery and was never the same.
I've had this question in the back of my head for years and decided to search about it today, only 2 days after the release of this video, the planets have aligned I guess 😊
As a Greek I always knew falling bullets can be lethal; it is customary in some regions here to shoot guns in the air mostly at weddings but also other joyous events & there have been numerous fatalities… Just 3 months ago a 25 year old died not by the bullet he shot in the air but the high voltage cable he cut with it. But anyways such fatalities are common occurrence here (especially in Crete) & I’m surprised not one incident was reported in the video.
I worked on repairing an old couples' chimney flashing once and found 6 bullets on the roof nearby. I showed them to the couple and they said, yeah the neighbor fires his pistol into the air every new years and 4th of july. I asked if they ever called the police and they said they didn't want to stir up any trouble.
Well, considering my truck had 2 bullet holes in the roof, the morning of New Years Day and the over hang over the side entrance to my house has a bullet hole, I would say the threat of falling bullets from firing in the air is very real.
ONE bullet hole in the roof of a car or in one's house roof, I would write off as "one of those things." But THREE hits in one night? you were deliberate target practice, not "unlucky."
@@demef758 Not likely, the Sheriffs Department came out and took a report, they told me what I suspected, the bullets came from up above. For someone to have intentionally done that, they would literally have to be floating and shoot down from the sky onto the roof my 7 ft truck and over hang of my house. The more likely scenario is someone was shooting into the sky and the bullets came down.
With terminal velocity and all the factors considered. What is the difference between a falling bullet and lets say hail? Stand outside and throw a small rock in the air. Is it going to cause injury when it comes down?
@@demef758 Deliberate target practice? That's a bit of a jump. A guy shooting in the air will typically fire in the same direction, and if he was properly braced when firing to manage the recoil, the shots would take a similar path, especially with low recoil calibers. I wouldn't be surprised if the lawn took some hits too, but that's usually harder to notice. The easy ones to notice are the ones in his vehicle and house.
My daughter's roof had two bullet holes in it when it was inspected. Another time I talked to a man who was buying ammo to shoot on New Years. I advised him to shoot into the ground or into a tree. He was surprised and alarmed when I told him about falling bullets. Someone else told me they new of someone who had been killed by a,falling bullet.
It always surprises me that people enjoy just firing a gun in a random direction. Isn’t the fun part when you have good accuracy on the target or can shoot at fun stuff like chalk, shook up soda bottle, moving target, etc?
I caught a falling bullet in my shoulder when I was 11. It was New Year's Eve and just turned midnight. I was at a park sitting on my mother's lap. It went all the way through and came out my armpit. So this was never in question for me. Thanks for making this video and bringing attention to the problem. I hope people realize this is not the proper way to celebrate.
Wow! Bless the spirits you're still around as living proof. It's amazing the gun panty fellers debate physics. Do they not know gun fetishes are what attracts only the other gun fetish fellers? Just ask boys on dates! No NRA mass murderer equipment required. It's 2023. NRA boys kissing each other's pickles isn't going to kill innocent bystanders!!
Ive found 2 bullet holes in the metal roof where I work and found one bullet that didnt penetrate. I work right next to Tucson International Airport. I never considered the airport factor till watching this though. Shooting in the air is really stupid. I got hit with bird shot in the side of the head but just hard enough to just penetrate. It stung. I dont want to know what a bullet feels like. My dad shot himself through the leg. He said it wasnt real bad till much later. It cant be good.
I’ve always wondered about that. You don’t hear too often about people being killed from bullets falling out of the sky. I’ve always thought shooting a live round in the air was a stupid thing to do regardless because of the risk
@@TheRealDrJoey 4.6% of deaths FROM STRAY BULLETS. NOT ALL DEATHS.....the words were very specific. I'd like to know who was paying for a study for 7 years to go around studying only deaths from strays and how they determined it was strays versus a somewhat steep or shallow trajactory based impact. Sounds like alot of this info is cherry picked or made up.
@@DFOOSKING A stray bullet is any bullet that hits something other than it's intended target. If someone shows up to a hospital with a bullet wound when they know someone wasn't shooting at them the incident will get investigated and logged making it incredibly easy to research without even trying that hard. No conspiracy there bud.
Halloween 2007, in my hometown, a group of teenage boys from out of town came over to randomly harass local trick-or-treaters. They chanced upon a group of high school girls at a park, and one of them fired a gun into the air to frighten them. Unfortunately, a bullet came down and struck one of the girls in the back while she was taking cover behind a tree. When recalling the tragedy years later, the officer at my high school told our class he was one of the first on site but already knew that the girl was not going to make it when he arrived. There's still a memorial to her in the park today. My own sister had just been hanging out at the park an hour earlier that night, and it is also scary to think she could have been a victim.
Growing up, someone across the street from me would fire bullets in the air every Wednesday, and I was always curious how dangerous it was. Had a feeling it was stupid
In the UK we don't generally have guns so we go outside and fire water pistols into the air, fortunately we all carry umbrellas and/or wear bowler hats so the returning water spray isn't a big deal.
I used to be a radar tech in a National Guard artillery unit. I used to use Graphic Firing Tables to figure out where an outgoing round was going and aim my radar to verify the accuracy of the shot. I remember that it was fairly common for high angle fire to come down at 700+ meters a second. Since that was a 90 pound round, it would surely ruin your day, even if it did not explode. In 2000, when Y2K was looming, I suggested that we setup one of radars on the hills outside of the city to catch exactly such celebrations. I got no interest for this. I also subsequently found that several fairly senior NCOs had joined the owner of a nearby bar in firing off celebratory rounds that night. For those who think no one can catch them, the radar was capable of picking up small arms rounds, actually a nuisance when you are chasing artillery, and determining both point of origin and point of impact within 100 meters, often within 50 meters. It just takes the knowledge that the tool exists and the will to use it.
As a roofer, I’ve found 2 bullets buried 1/3 of the way into shingles. One was 9mm the other was .380 and the .380 had a shallow angle. The 9mm was almost straight into the roof. Neither one went through 2 layers of roof shingles.
I saw similar in Louisiana myself once looking at rooftops from hurricane damage 10-13 years ago. It did not penetrate thru the decking. I don’t remember the size of the bullet.
Solid roofings are probably sufficient covers for stay bullets. However, the risks are still there for when people are not below such roofings. Where I come from, falling stray bullet deaths are from bullets going through thin metal roofs or just out in the open.
My father once told me a story from his days in the army: During a combat drill one soldier tripped and shot one bullet into the air at a rather flat trajectory. Later that day news came in that several villages away from the training ground a senior got hit by that very bullet while gardening in his yard - in his butt. Probably the luckiest unlucky guy I've ever heard of.
What happened to the stumbling squaddie? Was he assigned a desk job, preferably one where he had to sit on his bum all day every day in charge of accounting for the base's supply of ammo? Until he had learned his lesson.
Here in Greece celebratory gunfire was considered socially acceptable until a few years ago (continues to be in a lot of places). There have been deaths as you can imagine. I remember one being in a village near my city a few years ago when a small girl sitting in her yard was killed by a falling bullet fired some blocks away. It made the news and there was outrage but the habit continues to this day. The Easter of 23' there was someone outside the church I was at firing multiple rounds.
I used to do roofing repairs professionally. It wasn't uncommon to find bullets in the roofing materials. Usually, it did cause a leak but rarely went through the wood.
@@ayejae4519 hmm... yeah.. I know that Wooden bullets as well as that silicon bullets, metal bullets? Ah, yes that’s a rare bullet that one is.. bruh.....
It’s extremely ironic that random gunfire isn’t illegal everywhere. “But officer I wasn’t *aiming* at him, he just happened to be in the falling trajectory of the bullet”
Yes, you'd assume that would be illegal in all 50 States and many other places of the world. Unless using the weapon in self defense, hunting or training and you have no control over where it goes reliably, you have no business discharging the weapon.
@@arvidodinson6206 not at all, unless you injure or kill someone. And even then you can feign ignorance and give a fake apology and most likely all be well.
@@tilasole3252 i dont think thats how it works. if you actually kill someone with the falling bullet, you'd still be held accountable for the death. Although you wouldnt probably be charged with murder, most likely you would be charged with negligent homocide/Involuntary manslaughter.
@@marcuspoosz2190 depends on the lawyer, what state and the judge. Too much goes on today with direct proof and people still get off with hardly a slap on the wrist.
@@Jkrocsko You mean 10th grade right? Very few primary teachers let alone 5th graders are capable of a comprehensive presentation nor an understanding of physics. Even high school courses are basically physics samplers, and far from comprehensive. Physics belongs at the university. By the way, this is a fun video, but it's geared for midwits...a cartoon for fanboys to make them feel up-to-date and smart
In our country, people die or hit by stray bullets yearly (every new year's eve) because some idiot prefer shooting gun in the air rather use fireworks. The youngest victime I've known was 9 y old. She died.
Yeah I think this is an over exaggeration. Straight up is a very low probability but this guy is using some very deceptive statistics. Probably a Democrat...
My grandfather was at a party in the 50s and someone died on the spot from a bullet falling into his head. Someone had shot a pistol into the air a few blocks away.
Working as a commercial roofer in mostly larger cities on the east coast of the US you wouldn’t believe how many bullets I pull out of roofs or how many holes I fix where the round punches clean through. I’ve seen pass throughs on metal, shingles and other asphalt roofs and membrane systems. I can’t imagine the stupidity required to fire rounds into the air
I seem to recall the Mythbusters doing this one, reaching the conclusion that a bullet shot straight up won't necessarily fall with lethal velocity, but at an angle it can keep its spin and remain sufficiently dangerous.
It really all boils down to weight and speed. No.9 birdshot can be fired straight up safely because of its very light weight and low velocity. Compare that to something like an artillery shell, which even accidentally dropped from 3ft on one’s foot will hurt.
One of my friends got shot in the head by a lost bullet at a house party when we were in College. The bullet came through the roof and got stuck on his brain. It didn't kill him but he lost his ability to talk, walk and it aged his body incredibly. He looked 55 by the time he was 25. He was the bread winner in his family too. Please don't do this, it can be life changing not just for the person getting hit but by all his loved ones.
I was taking out the trash in an apartment complex in a not so great area of Phoenix. I'm about halfway through the parking lot, heading to the dumpster, when I hear a metallic clinking sound on the ground directly behind me. I look back and theres a fresh bullet on the ground right behind me. I pick it up and it looks like a .45, still warm. If I would have come out 2 seconds later than I did, I would have got it. I also have a video on my channel of being pinned down behind some bushes while hiking through the desert north of Phoenix as bullets are loudly whizzing right over my head, and landing on the ground around me, as bullets seemed to be coming from everywhere by people who pulled up, hopped out, and just started shooting into my area without seeing me. It would be the second video on my channel where I'm nearly hit by stray bullets in the desert north of Phoenix. The first one I suddenly seemed to be in the middle of a shootout in the middle of nowhere, after not seeing a person for miles. Machine gun fire, shotguns, you name it were going off everywhere around me by what seemed like two groups firing at each other, while completely hidden in the large bushes all around me. I never saw one of them and all the shooting stopped as quickly as it started.
Many years ago I was just getting in my truck to go to lunch. I was in the parking lot of my company which was located about a half mile from a gravel pit where the local Sheriff's had a makeshift shooting range for the deputies. I could hear the shooting but it was a normal thing so I didn't pay any attention to it. Suddenly, I was hit in my upper back, right of my spine and it knocked my into the side of my truck. I looked down and there was a .40 bullet laying on the pavement. I later proved in a court like meeting with the Sheriff and the county attorney that the officers involved were shooting up in the air at an angle of approximately 40 degrees. The bullet matched one of the deputy's weapon. I still have the bullet. The bullet made it through tall pine trees on top of the hill and struck me unimpeded. It was late fall and I was wearing a heavy t-shirt, flannel shirt and a heavy leather flight jacket. I had a bruise that went from the impact point to below my buttocks on the right side. It hurt like hell and I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been for the leather jacket, it would have slightly penetrated my skin. The jacket still has the impression of the bullet over 30 years later.
When I was a kid, was hit by a falling bullet on my foot, I just had a stinging effect that was over in seconds, this made me believe that they were not dangerous. I now understand that it depends on many factors.
@@minorcomet282 I was standing, I don't think it would have killed me if it hit me in the heard, there was no skin damage, so I suppose it wasn't a powerful firearm.
It was a bullet, I picked it up, it was lead, I cannot remember if it was quite damaged after hitting something, but nothing near me, I would of heard it.
I was an Airforce helicopter engineer doing a stint in Iraq at Basra Airbase around 2008. I was sat in the office doing my paperwork when the fan next to me made a loud noise and dust kicked up around it. Turns out a football celebration bullet had returned to earth down through the roof of the cabin and hit the fan. We had over 400 rockets fired at the base while I was there but that stray bullet was the most memorable.
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I was taught this at a very early age and have always wondered about this so thanks for the info. When I was a youngster back in the late 60's my dad was on the sheriff reserve or posse as it was called then and was issued a service revovler (38 special) and would shoot it in our back yard on the 4th of July and new years eve. He always told me to never shoot a gun up in the air because, you know, gravity, so he would would shoot it into the ground. Anyway, nice explainer video and thanks again.
I don't live in the US but my father served in the army in the Balkans and here we have tons of weapons and I remember as a kid going to buy an airsoft rifle and the girl selling it pointed the gun to the roof to fire to show it works even tho it was empty I remember my dad immediately grabbing the barrel and pointing it down saying to me and her that if you ever want to testfire a weapon you point it at the ground away from you.
In 2007, a cop of Macau fired 5 rounds into the air during a street protest and one of the bullet hit a random guy's chest 300m away which almost killed him. It definitely can be lethal.
If you don’t have a weapon or have not been around a gun all your life don’t believe everything someone tells you. Have any of you ever dove or duck hunted? Shot from a shotgun rain down all over. The only way you could be injured is if you were looking up without eye protection. However hand guns and rifle projectiles are different. Angle and velocity play the major factor in severity of injury. Fact. Do you know the range of the weapon. Do you know the weight of the projectile? Most important, do you know who or what is down range? Fact, only an idiot would fire a hand gun or rifle into the air.
If the bullet is not on a ballistic arc, the fastest it can go is terminal velocity, which is no faster than if it was dropped from a height. Firearms expert Julian Hatcher studied falling bullets in the 1920s and calculated that . 30 caliber rounds reach terminal velocities of 90 m/s (300 feet per second or 186 miles per hour). A bullet traveling at only 61 m/s (200 feet per second) to 100 m/s (330 feet per second) can penetrate human skin but that's a lot slower than a fired round.
Shannon Smith, mentioned in this video, was the daughter of our neighbor, just two houses away. She was only 14 when a bullet "fell out of the sky" and ended her life. Maybe this video will make a few people think before shooting carelessly into the air.
Wait really you knew her also as someone who has grown up in Phoenix all 15 years of my life gun fire is still very common in the middle of the city I wish this law was more widely enforced
Yup, which Is why the majority of Americans want guns to be banned, but the right wingers are crazy attached to the constitution and think it's like the 10 commandments and can't ever be changed. As Obama said, the constitution is fluid, and was never intended to be permanent. God bless him and Biden for trying to rid the US citizens of guns.
Cops aren't going to respond to those calls, especially if its a neighborhood on the " wrong side of the tracks".. Though I guarantee that if gunshots rang off in one of those gated white folk communities then the SWAT team would he there in a matter of minutes.
I work in a rail yard just south of Chicago and on July 4th and New years you could hear the falling bullets hitting containers and trains all around us, luckily our supervisors dont have a problem with us just staying inside for like an hour until the shots die down. Be safe out there guys.
Sorry, but even the best marksman is incapable of shooting a gun straight up in the air and hitting an intended target. No, those hits you heard that night were semi-horizontal shots, not vertical shots.
@@GodInHisPrime You'd be surprised " Shut up and get back to work maggot, comma you can hide from bullets on your own time. we're not paying you to sit in the break room and do nothing." Ah the good old days
The best source material for this is "Hatcher's notebook", by Julian Hatcher. He rewrote all the books on ballistics, and answered many questions about exterior ballistics.
I live in a state with lots of guns (Kentucky). This is a surprisingly common warning to find in stores and hear in gun-savvy groups. When I bought my first AR the clerk even casually mentioned not to fire it into the air. Frankly, I am of the mind we need to teach basic gun safety in schools in areas with as many guns as ours (i.e. 5 rules of firearm safety and related safety habits like this). I even remember after one of the controversial police shootings lately that a news anchor questioned why the officer didnt fire a warning shot into the air (despite the event occuring in a densely populated suburb). My friends and I laughed at the idiotic suggestion, but thinking about it, the thought that seems common sense to us may not be so obvious to those who have seldom been around guns.
Information is power, in my opinion, most of the usage problems and myths associated with guns around the world come from misinformation and lack of proper gun education. This is especially bad in countries where guns are a "civil right". I think that most people wouldn't discharge firearms into the air or think that it is normal if they were taught gun discipline (among other things).
@Ghustak Ali Khan Enjoy. Though I travel frequently, it is still probably my favorite place (I am very lucky to live there. Lots to do outdoors, and the scenery is gorgeous.
@Ghustak Ali Khan I dont know them too well, but if I remember that is one of the more populus states and has a ton of famous temples and statues. I have not made it to India yet, so I am not sure where it sits geographically.
I work a lot on roofs in a large USA city, and do occasionally find bullets deeply imbedded into asphalt shingles -- so yeah, that's some downward force that could definitely hurt.
Falling arrows are far scarier. My dad shot an arrow in the air in the back yard when I was a kid and we all ran inside the house. Arrow landed in our neighbors back yard in the awning of back door! Nobody was home so my dad jumped the fence to pull out the arrow and told me that was incredibly stupid thing he did. Lol
One of the top five rules of gun safety is to "Know your intended target AND what lies beyond". To we the responsible gun owners, that means NO RANDOM SHOOTING period.
Bullets may seem to be spinning slowly due to the angle of the rifling but that velocity masks the true rotational speed which is massive, an AK47 bullets spins at about 3000 revolutions per second and will continue spinning even after it has run out of velocity. This spin will resist it turning around and will keep pointing in the same directions as it left the gun even as gravity causes it to fall back down. This will result in it having much less air resistance than if tumbling and mostly falling sideways. Also when it hits something (like someone's head) it will concentrate its force in a much smaller area.
I have been curious whether or not bullets orient themselves with the trajectory as they go. I understand the stabilizing effect and tendency to remain oriented parallel to the barrel, but aerodynamic forced for an extended period of time may turn the bullet. That said, as far as I can tell, a bullet isn't designed well for maintaining a tip-forward path. It seems like a bullet would slowly lose the tip-forward orientation as it is turned sideways by aerodynamic forces. Anyway, a particularly interesting question is what a bullet does when fired at 20-30°? Does it remain oriented upward as it falls or does the tip point down as it falls? If the tip points upward it seems like that would cause a significant lift force and delay the fall.
@@robinlehnerd1475 Well, the angle a barrel is pointed "up" and the angle the bullet then descends down is a VERY small angle at most ranges a rifle will typically be used. Typically, less than 1 degree, that's for a typical range under 400m. But you're right this is an issue when it comes to very very precise shooting so it's important for sniper rifles to have BARELY enough "spin" to the bullet so that it doesn't wobble in the air but as the trajectory curves down the bullet will be adjusted by the aerodynamic forces to always be "pointing into the wind". "It seems like a bullet would slowly lose the tip-forward orientation as it is turned sideways by aerodynamic forces." The main net effect is counterintuitive due to the magnus effect and gyroscopic procession. What will actually happen is very counterintuitive as the air friction is so massive, and the spin rate is so astonishingly fast and you have the further complications of how it's travelling faster than the speed of sound so you have supersonic shockwaves. This wouldn't be a problem in itself as this would be fairly constant over range but the problem with long range shooting is wind, that is the variable that you can't really control and is pretty hard to measure so really you want a bullet that is affected very very little by the wind. "Anyway, a particularly interesting question is what a bullet does when fired at 20-30°?" That's pretty commonly with machine guns, as while any individual shot of a machine gun is pretty imprecise, by shooting a huge volume it's like a shotgun firing many pellets of birdshot, it averages out into cone of fire that curves through the sky and down. The area it lands is known as the "beaten zone". Do these bullets fly straight through the air? Good question, it varies from one machine gun and ammunition type to another, it's the field of "external ballistics" and it seems that not all bullets perform the same.
Now think about the rotation speed of the 220 swift, always wondered why that round punched way above its weight class. Till I read a book on exterior ballistics.
Thanks for posting this. I think I read somewhere that a high resolution, high speed radar on a US Army proving ground showed that the spin makes it so that bullets do follow a parabola adjusted for air friction but that they remain more/less pointing upward as launched so that steep angles lead to keyhole-like holes in target paper etc at a distance.
While walking through the woods one sunny spring afternoon I heard shots in the distance and didn't think anything of it. They were a long way off and gunfire is pretty common. Then there was a crack and my chest hurt. A 38/357 round fell from probably half a mile off, skimmed/ricocheted off a tree, and hit me square in the chest. Still have the bullet.
After reading all these comments from people who've either been shot or knew someone who'd been shot or killed I can see how often people have been hurt. I had no idea. Just reminds to be even more careful with my weapon. Thanks for the info
No, tha video is bull. And most of these people are talking about bullets that were SHOT AT AN ANGLE. No bullet shot straight up could do what most of these people are talking about.
Guys max is one of those people with firearms celebrating by shooting the damn gun randomly so lets just go along with him, its clear he just doesnt want to accept the truth until something happens lul
@@maxdrags3115 A bullet shot straight up would have enough time to reach terminal velocity on the way down and easily pierce both muscle and bone, let alone the squishy fatal stuff that lies underneath. How in the bloody hell is gravitational acceleration this hard for you to understand?
Oof, I always assumed the terminal velocity of a falling bullet would be way too low to do more than just hurt a lot as long as the angle was mostly vertical since air resistance would prevent it from going very fast, but I guess I was wrong since 90m/s is still pretty fast. Makes sense that something with the mass of a bullet at that speed could easily punch through the thinner parts of the skull and kill you.
My aunt's father was sheriff here in the early 1900s, on New Years Eve at the town celebration, all me were encouraged to wear their revolvers, if they didn't have one the city furnished at table of guns they could barrow. Also, don't forget in WW1 the practice of aiming a heavy machine gun into the air to shower themselves with bullets was an acceptable means to drive back an enemy over running their position, it was known as "Hard Rain"
@@matthew8153 I mean it's kinda brutal if you ask me because the tops of helmets wouldn't be enough to stop the bullets and it's thousands of tiny unpredictable near silent killers so whoever hit would drop like flies
@@TheTallOne890 . WW1-2 helmets were made only to protect you from falling debris from ground shell bursts. They were never designed to deflect rounds, thoe there are a few recorded incidents of the helmet doing just that but it was purely down to luck.
About 40 years ago, an acquaintance was watching July 4th fireworks when he was struck by a celebratory shot from a .45 automatic fired about 2 blocks away. He was hit in the leg and suffered roughly a 30% permanent disability due to muscle and nerve damage in his lower leg, resulting in a dropped foot. Police caught the culprit, who was tried and convicted and served a multi-year prison sentence.
Years ago, my aunt had a falling bullet hit her thigh when sitting inside the house, which required surgery to remove. People must know that you could kill somebody when firing at the sky. Indeed you might have killed somebody without knowing it if you have done it a lot
@@Voltomess Worst? You serious? The worst thing about an accident is that you don’t find someone to blame and ruin their life as well? Some priorities you’ve got
In 2006 I was at a wedding in Mexico. It's a big thing to celebrate by discharging your gun into the air. Around 6 men were shooting straight up. I was sitting under a huge tarp, the ones uses to cover roofs that leak water. I heard what I believed were rocks falling on the tarp. Curiously I was able to bring down around 8-10 bullets from the tarp. Those rounds were mainly from 9mm, 45, and 38 super. I was surprised when I grew up and saw videos like this explaining that falling bullets are lethal. To this day, I'm shocked that these falling bullets didn't even penetrate a thin tarp. Before people claim that I'm wrong, I know what bullets look like. That day, I first hand witnessed that bullets don't go as fast coming down compared to when they shoot out from the barrel.
I was at a bar with a friend on July 4th and right before my eyes he was hit with a stray bullet fired from somewhere across town. It nearly missed his head and instead lodged into his shoulder/collar bone area missing his rotator cuff luckily. I couldn't believe it when it happened but it definitely happened.
@@dynevor6327 "Near miss" is a term that technically means "near hit". Doesn't make much sense lol but it means something that missed, but was near an object it COULD have damaged.
I met a kid (another patient) when visiting a doctor's clinic. He had been wounded by a bullet. The doctor had removed the bullet and he was in for follow up checkup. The bullet hit him when he was taking a nap on his bed. The bullet came through the roof and into his stomach. Luckily, it didn't hit any vital organ. His house was a one story building with no other building higher than his in the area. So, shooting upward IS dangerous. That's why we are told to point the gun downward. Same thing with bow and arrow.
Midnight on New Years or 0000 hrs in Vietnam 1968 an m-60 gunner on our perimeter decided to fire straight in the air leaving a nice tracer trail. This also prompted two more perimeter guards to fire their m-60’s straight up. When I grabbed and put on my steel pot and stood straight up a couple of my squad mates laughed until the morning that is when two of those 7.62 mm rounds were found having gone through the corrugated metal roof and stuck in the wooden floor of the only “building” in the base camp as the rest were 6 man tents on dirt.
I remember how in 2014 some school back in Germany reported how 3mm bullet fragments were found on the schoolyard. 3KM away was a military camp testing some new ammunition into the air. Imagine the possible outcome.
Well, Jamaicans always knew that falling bullets are dangerous. However, the gunmen that plague our island still do gun salutes every New Years Eve which hurt many people. Thanks for this detailed video.
3:27 „a velocity which increases by 9.81 m/s - every second“. It really took me until today to understand how the m/s^2 unit used for measuring acceleration works 🤯🤦♂️
Sadly this happens a lot in the country I live in and there have been a number of deaths as a result , it is not rare to hear about someone dying from a random bullet. The last one I heard about was a man at his wedding day , people there began shooting in the air with pistols and some were armed with AK-47s with live rounds, poor girl lost her man at what supposed to be her happiest day , may he rest in peace.
Highly doubt this happened. Someone firing in the air would have to be almost precisely vertical to hit someone that close to them on the bullet's descent. Even a slight change in the angle of the shot would throw the bullet off by hundreds of feet to a mile. Think about if you were going to shoot an AK-47 in the air, you are not going to point it straight up, it will be at to far of an angle for it to come down and hit anyone close to you.
A couple of years ago I noticed a bullet hole in the roof of my car. The bullet penetrated the outer skin and stopped when it hit the metal pan underneath the area under the retracted sunroof. I only noticed the whole thing when hearing the bullet rolling around as I was driving.
My parents were absolutely anti-gun, but one day my dad came home with an archery set for me and my brother to practice with. This was not some kid's set, but an actual grown-up bow with real, very pointy arrows. So here we are, about two days later, shooting arrows at the target we had nailed to a tree, when one of us had the brilliant idea of shooting the arrows straight up into the sky, just to see how far they would climb. Even more brilliant, however, was the sun that afternoon. The arrow went up and we immediately lost sight of it in the sun's glare. Some seconds later, we heard a distinct THUNK on the ground and looked for the source of the sound. The arrow had landed in a perfectly vertical position, about two inches deep, less than a foot from my brother. We never used the bow again.
I almost think it is a right of passage for kids to shoot arrows in the air and hope no one gets hit I know my friend's and I also did this as kids but we did it more often than I would like to admit it was quite a rush not knowing where the arrow was going to land.
Bullets shot from a rifle will spin, but as the video says, if they go straight up, then when they come down they tumble in their fall and slow themselves down. Not so for arrows. The fletching (feathers) on an arrow will make it point downward and also spin so that it doesn't tumble. It will hit the ground with about the same speed as when it left the bow. We also shot arrows into the air a few times but I don't think we lost sight of them. They usually came down at least 20 feet away from us. Fortunately this idea soon got very boring so that we started shooting at actual targets again.
My friend, the Pentagon Bird... developed the 85mm Recoilless Cannon, in the barnyard, and when he tested it on his outlying farm, it got air response from two air biases here in Ohio, and FBI/ATF, and a Contract from the Department of Defense to continue testing at the Picatinny Arsenal in the Potamic. Transporting the weapon there, it blew up a large Gasoline Station in the DC Beltway. The gun was a huge success and Bob won his case... it was setup to blow up, by someone stupid.... WOW.. Please Read the Book, "The Pentagon Wars".
Years ago, while repairing the flashing around my house's chimney, I found a .22 caliber bullet embedded nose-down into the composite roofing. Obviously enough energy to cause injury, even by a "low power" caliber.
He never compared the Kinetic Energy leaving the barrel with the Kinetic Energy of a falling bullet. KE=12MassX velocity Squared. If a bullet is traveling 3000feet per second up, but only 300 feet per second down, the KE leaving the barrel is 100 times the KE of when it falls at terminal velocity. 100 times less damage on the way down. Could it hurt? Yeah. Could it kill? I doubt it.
@@garysmith8593 the video implies that a bullet would reach 6 times the kinetic energy needed to break skin. cracking skulls like that seems unlikely. the reported cases might be angled shots or very unlucky hits.
An interesting observation. Living in the UK, I always wondered if any civilians were hit/injured/killed in 1931/1940 when an intense amount of arial dogfights took place over the county of Kent.
Not only that, and perhaps even worse, think of all the debris from flak cannons that would have had to come back down. The only thing I'm figuring is that people living in those areas knew it was occurring, and I'm sure they stayed inside or hidden during raids.
And don't forget, during WWII bombing raids over cities, large numbers of flak guns were firing shells up at the bombers. While most of the shells detonated in the air, they spread out large amounts of metal fragments. Except for the small portion which embedded themselves in enemy aircraft, the remainder of these shell fragments also fell back to earth. During an air raid you take cover, not just from the bombs but from your own defences.
A 'falling bullet' can have many parameters. Anything fired at 45° or shallower angle can travel great distances and still be lethal. A bullet fired over head, where it decelerate to a stop, the falls, depends a lot on the shape and quality of the projectile. Does it tumble, for example? How heavy is it. Mass may not matter VS gravity, but air friction and mass can have a significant role in final velocity. I'd simply prefer NOT to get hit by any bullet, falling or otherwise.
Actually had this happen in my childhood. Dad shot at something with 22 LR and it broke somebodies window over 1/2 mile away. Also my mother was hit by falling shrapnel from anti aircraft fire in London in WW2, apparently a fairly common experience.
About a year before the pandemic began, one of my coworkers (who lives in a suburb of Houston, TX) was outside with her kids and several neighbors watching a fireworks display to celebrate New Year's Eve. She said some other neighbors were firing guns up into the sky (as is always the case here). Well, a falling bullet struck one of her neighbors in the neck. My coworker and her kids had to witness this elderly lady bleed out right in front of them. She said it was absolutely horrible. Not the neat and tidy bleeding you see on TV, but pouring as if from a water hose out of her mouth and neck, so much so that the lady was drowning in her own blood. She said there was nothing they could do and it was over in two minutes. It was even on the local news. Her kids had to have therapy due to the psychological trauma of seeing such a thing happen right in front of them. And as you've probably already guessed, it didn't phase these idiots here in Houston one bit. Guns being fired into the sky on New Year's and July 4th are still a regular occurrence.
Easily one of the most asinine things anyone holding a gun can do. Even without such a well done video explaining it to anyone who wouldn't otherwise be capable of deducing the outcome on their own. Side note, anyone not capable of the latter should not be holding a gun.
@Repentance: The Missing Link Of True Salvation Believer here. However, your comment is not what is intended by be the light imo. It's off-putting to non-believers. There are better ways to be and shine the light.
I remember going to a friend's house as a teenager, we had a home-made yew bow left to dry so it was time to test it. Dude had the brilliant idea to shoot it at a near vertical angle, with one of those super light carbon arrows from the store. We ran inside for cover, no idea where it landed. Luckily we didn't hear anything from the police after that.
I used to do that as a kid. Trick was to stand perfectly still. Once one landed in arms reach and I stopped doing it. Most of the time the wind would carry it off trajectory so it would land yards away. But just that 1 time it didn't and it scared me enough to stop doing it.
@@Kamalaaintblack A couple friend I've known since grade school did this once with target arrows. Luckily one of them managed to see where the arrow would land and told the other to move. Landed right where he was standing.
Here in Kansas City, there were over 1,000 rounds shot off at New Year’s this year (2022). In a prior year, we had a victim (i.e. unintentioned death) from a free-fall bullet. It is as if some people have never heard of gravity. One of my neighbors last night shot a gun every time the Chiefs scored a TD over the Steelers. It makes one a bit uneasy.
Better chance of dying ehile driving dont stress it unless you think the person will lose control of the fire arm or fire at such a wide angle its likely to kill. Beat thing would be if they where firing a shotgun pellets just dont carry the same energy and power as a regular bullet
A little girl died in Virginia at a place called Sunday Park during a 4th of July celebration. A bullet fell from the sky and strucker in the head. I have also personally witnessed a rifle bullet come down from the sky in Hawaii and go through the metal roof of my landlords office, landing in his chair. The round was going much slower, but it was till enough to kill anyone unlucky enough to be in its path
@robi6317 unfortunately no, it's almost impossible to trace a single bullet fired into the air, please stop someone if you see them doing that (as long as it's safe to do so)
Morning after new years a decade back my cousin went to his garage and found his windshield smashed. He was totally perplexed as the it was clear no one had broken into the house. There was a bullet lodged in the upholstery. It has gone through shingles, insulation, sheetrock, a windshield, and part way through a leather seat.
I've heard of a lady dying in my country from bullets that were shot from the barracks. The bullet hit her and she was literally miles away from the gun.
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When I was in grade school, we had a substitute teacher that was hit on the head by a stray bullet on new year's eve.
They had to take out a piece of her skull and and put it in upside down.
After rehab she could no longer taste or smell. And who knows what else. She sure got lucky.
I understand that a bullet out of a gun can cause more damage than a bullet in terminal velocity, but to claim they don't pose danger is not only ignorant, but downright dangerous.
I came out to my truck one morning to go to work, and found a 9mm bullet lodged in my hood right over top of my carburetor. Falling bullets will do damage!!!
What is wrong with that nasally sounding affected accent? Sound not so smart
Think of the motor vehicle as a M O A B , The "Massive ordinance, Air-Burst", bomb on wheels. So yes, some explode really badly. Bradley's do too when carrying fuel inside with the troupes. Ford Pinto... just as bad.
As a helicopter guy we fly over crazy parts of town quite often and I have come to accept that people are stupid and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Exactly true…
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This happened to my sister around 5 years ago. She was casually sitting in backyard when a bullet hit her in the foot. She didn't have any idea what happened but she came inside screaming she had been shot in the foot. Thankfully, it didn't fracture any bone in her foot and she recovered completely within 3 weeks. She never had a problem due to this incident afterwards, but this news had spread like crazy in our family.
Maybe I Was Thinking What Are The Chances Of Falling Bullet Hit A Person Is Maybe 1 in a 1 trillion
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Did you ever catch the person who did it?
Did it go through? Was it a grazing hit? What kind of bullet was it? Did you ever find the actual bullet?
@@beargillium2369 Yes, it went through the skin and through the shoe. My sister has kept the bullet eversince as a memory. My guess is it's a 7.62x39mm bullet.
As an Iraqi, this is my biggest fear ever whenever I'm on the streets. Because really Iraqi people shoot real fatal bullets inside crowded areas into the air not just for celebrating a football match win but also for engagements, marriage, having a newborn baby, someone precious passing away, someone recovering from a serious injury or illness, someone's son just got circumcised, and of course when two clans have a conflict for some silly reason and that is the worst-case scenario.
Ironic how they do the shooting for childbirth, death of a loved one, and someone getting healed.
One person gets better (or dies) and suddenly 6 more are injured in the celebration.
I think informing people a little better could help a bit.
I wonder if it would help if someone sold 'celebratory rounds' (blanks!)! If this kind of thing is common...then why not make special ammo for it?
@@jamesnewcomer4939 well, of course there is the rubber bullets but the idea of shooting real bullets is the reason for the habit in the first place just to show off in most cases and brag about it
@@superymariowest2403 that really happened so many times here, actually some years earlier, there was a wedding in our neighborhood and someone with a light machinegun started firing into the air and lost control of it and it went down with his hand on the trigger! blew up the electricity main unit in the street and killing the cousin of the groom on his way down, it was disastrous, the boy's father and other cousin tried to commit suicide after 2 days afterward but people held them down.
Your scare is reasonable~ I have lul moment hard when those Afghanis do that celebration as US retreatment end up injured of dozens of civilians city dwellers
As a retired roofer, I have seen the damage a falling Bullet can do. A bullet can go through shingles, and through the decking, and lodge into the rafter. Here in New Mexico, I stay indoors on New Years eve.
Same here in SoCal! 😊
And downstairs by the sounds of things 😅
As a Hvac tech, I found a bullet resting on top of a unit in the attic, with a hole in the roof right above it.
No idea why people insist on doing this
In ABQ so many idiots shoot into the air
This is a common occurrence in our country every new year’s eve and sadly with some fatalities. I don’t understand how some people can indiscriminately discharge their firearms like that thinking it will magically disappear in the air.
Indeed here in Jamaica as well
Honestly I feel like those ppl are unlicensed and not really caring about those important details… smh us licensed owners know ammo is not cheap (anymore) and care about where our Bullets land…
In india keeping firearms is against the law...can also get u arrested...until u have a lisence.
Whoever shoots to the sky probably didn't finish highschool, which is where they tell us everything in this video.
why allow firearms at all? Here in germany only the police has the right to carry firearms and they often never use it in 40 years of service.
Turns out my fears were not unfounded about falling bullets. Thanks for confirming them Stu
You’re welcome 👍
What about fears over quicksand? (which ended up not being as huge a presence in my life as the old serials, comics, and cartoons otherwise indicated)
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June 2017 in a school yard in Menidi Athens 11 years old Mario died from a bullet falling from the sky. It was a celebration day due to summer holidays, last day for Mario in this earth, noone arrested for this murder.
@@ΒασίληςΜπαλτσιώτης no she didn't, she was killed by bullet that still had lateral momentum.
For it to be falling either her or one of the people she was with would have fired it.
Happened to a friend of mine when he was young living in the Philippines. He was looking up for whatever reason when a bullet struck him in the forehead, thankfully for him it didn't do much more then give him a slight imprint scar.
😮 incredible, thanks for sharing!
Damn
This is the usual outcome of getting hit by bullets fired straight up. Almost all incidents of fatalities from falling bullets are the result of firing at much shallower angles.
@Tony Stark what ever the caliber is AR ,15 as it the favourites of the Filipinos to fire back in the 80’s.
@Tony Stark is AR 15 got many sorts of caliber? I don't know about caliber as so stupid of me coz I remember the one that I own is a shotgun and a .22😂
Several years ago I was the RN in the ER of a small hospital when an older man was brought in from a local golf course with an arm injury. The arm had been bandaged by the EMS so my concern was his overall condition since he was a heart patient. After assuring he was stable I removed the dressing while interviewing him to see how he was injured. I seems he was sitting in an open golf cart and was resting his arm on his leg when he suddenly got a severe pain in his arm just above his wrist. Upon removing the dressing, I discovered a round "hole" in his arm that went completely thru his arm. I recognized it as a bullet wound. Upon further examination he complained of his leg hurting. He had blood on his pants which I thought came from his arm but after removing his pants I discovered another entry wound and a thru and thru leg wound. When examining his pants I found a hole in the top of the leg but not in the bottom. Since the was now stable , I called the golf course and talked to the police who were there and asked if they had looked in the golf cart. They had not so I asked if they would because I believed this man had been shot. They found a bloody 223 cal bullet on the floor of the cart. The bullet came down almost vertically with enough force to go thru his arm, the first layer of his pants, thru his leg but could not go thru the other part of his pants. When he stood up to get out of the cart the bullet fell out of the leg of his pants onto the floor of the cart. If I wasn't there I would have a hard time to believe it but it happened. You can't make this stuff up.
Sounds like the magic bullet theory authored by the Warren Commision. Was bullet pristine?
Put it simply: Do you know where your bullets will hit?
Anything other than a "yes" means it's incredibly dangerous, case closed.
"Yes, it will end into my neighbor's head. Since I know where it's going, it's should be safe enough to shoot"
@@Chrisss1176 well then it’s murder
@@idkadecentname6589 well, yeah, technically. But still, to the question "Do I know where my bullet will hit" I can definitely answer yes
@@Chrisss1176 They never said when the answer is yes, it is safe to to so, they just pointed out that if you don’t know, it is also very dangerous
Be aware of your target and what is beyond it
As a 8 year old child I was worried about the bullets shot in the air during running competitions.
Only a couple years after did I realize those were blank shots, but anyway it's embarassing that an 8 year old me was more worried about celebratory gunfire than most countries in the world are nowadays.
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As a child we tend to have a more direct approach to everything, because learning involves observing and we WANT to learn or at least understand.
At some point we drop our learning attitude and instead go into a state of "who cares, it has always been like that".
@@groundloss Speak for yourself. I always seek answers. That "Always been like that" and "who cares" approch is the result of those that are used to ignorance.
Honestly, I find that more dangious then any falling bullet. I can trust an idiot that tries to use their brain. I can't trust someone that knows a lot if they say ignorance might be for the best. The very statement contradicts. How can you know if you don't know?
Thus,I make it about what people don't know. Goes further then "I know best". A shame the same can't be said for so many others.
@@taramaforhaikido7272 You really shouldn't trust either. And that's something that is also lost and causes many unfortunate absurd protests nowadays.
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I’ve always assumed that falling bullets were dangerous, but it is nice to see evidence.
Hehe same
Im definitely going to stop my wake up calls now, no more emptying an AK into the sky of a morning
It's like picking straws, you never know whose gonna be the chosen one, until it's over...
Nope, this video is full of crap.
A bullet shot straight up in the air is not dangerous.
@@maxdrags3115 I suppose you also believe the earth is flat...
This is a common practice in my area. The local government tells people not to do it, but people do it anyway, because they’re… people. I’ve explained why it’s dangerous to a few neighbors, but I’ve learned that individuals prone to firing up into the air find it hard to understand the physics involved. I will refer them to this video in the future. I’m not getting my hopes up.
Well, ya know..Stupid fucks grow on trees and it's harvest season every single minute of every single day..and there's never a "bad harvest"..
This is funny and sad
What do they find hard to understand about the physics? Bullet go up, bullet go down.
Because they are "people"? Mostly, it's testosterone, men and self-consumed, dimwitted men.
After a serious accident in the 90's I spent a few weeks in a hospital and shared a room with a Swiss Red Cross worker who had been shot in Afghanistan while working in an office. It turned out he was hit by a stray bullet from two brothers who had a falling out, and decided to have a shootout over a mile away. The bullet came down, went through a window, hit him in the back of the head and came out through his mouth. In the process it smashed his upper pallet and knocked half his teeth out. He was on his way to a full recovery when I got discharged.
What was the caliber?
@@visceratrocar I didn't ask, but I imagine 7.62x39 if Russian era AK?
@@GdaySport The Russian era is the '47. Not a huge round person, but probably enough. Particularly if shot at an angle.
Everything was interesting until they interjected that commercial.
That doesn't sound like a falling bullet..
This actually happened a few years ago in an L.A area middle school. Students were on recess break and were making lines to buy snacks. All of a sudden out of nowhere, and without any gun shot sound, a 12 year old boy yelled and immediately fell to the floor. He had been struck in the upper shoulder/ neck area by a falling 9 mm bullet. He survived, but he was in critical condition for a while.
Wow, you do realize that if he was position a little different, it could have landed on his head. Mashallah
@@confusedkilan962 you watched that from tik tok stfu
@@Therealdeal42069 Wtf do u mean?
@@Therealdeal42069 The world doesn't revolve around tiktok. You children need to get off your phones and go outside.
This is a fairly common occurrence, several people were struck by Falling bullets in North Carolina this year during New Year's celebration. With that said, less than 500 people are accidentally killed by Firearms each year in the US
This happened in the town I grew up in back in the 1970's. A guy working on his roof was found dead. They first thought it was cardiac until they did an autopsy and found he had been shot. After figuring out the angles - they determined someone had fired into the air. Long story short detectives found that some people celebrating in a nearby park a couple miles away (4th of july party) had randomly fired a rifle, sometimes in the air - which one of the bullets found its way into the guy working on his roof, killing him. It took several months to crack the case.
Did the guy with the gun get arrested? Because that should have happened.
@@MontananMusician really doubt there would be any proof anywhere
The bullet's markings should match the owner of the guns barrel.
@@MontananMusician was wondering the same thing
Like...didn't they see blood and gunshot on him? How can you assume cardiac arrest in such a case?
I have always wondered about how many WWII civilians were hurt or killed by bullets expended during dogfights.
That's exactly what sent Erich Hartmann to the gulag for ten years.
@@aj-2savage896
Stop lie, not for that.
During the Pearl Harbor attack there were several civilians kiiled by Amercian anti-aircratft fire falling back down.
@@aj-2savage896 Hartman was imprisioned for being an excellent fighter pilot. The ruskies were worse than the nazis.
Ocean sharks were hit during Battle of Midway.
"they will have flying cars in 2020s"
the people: **still discovering gravity**
What's the problem in getting knowledge? U r so lame
Hes jokin
flying cars is not possible
@@Space97. for now
Its possible now theres one but it can fly not so long.
I had this debate with a co-worker once and it just astonished me how this person, who did have some background in physics, could not see how dangerous this was. "It's just falling from sky" he said. He couldn't grasp the energy equation minus friction meant a still very dangerous projectile. I mean, in warfare, archers would shoot arrows up at a more or less 45 degree angle. Did not the enemy fear such projectiles?
45 degrees isn’t 90 degrees. At 45 the object maintains all of its horizontal speed. At 90 there is no horizontal speed. A bullet falling from the sky wouldn’t go through a leather jscket
@@bcuniverse_ yeah, and those people shooting to the air are pointing their guns at 90°, sure.
@@mrmanolomax7328 obviously they are
@@bcuniverse_ probably in normal firing in the air,the angle isn't 90, it's almost 85 or something
@@bcuniverse_ how you came to that conclusion? 2 years ago a stray bullet went through a tin plate my father standing beneath. Luckily he didnt get hit. I hope you can grasp that a tin plate is a lot sturdier than a leathet jacket
I have never understood the urge to fire a gun into the air.
Starting with my first hunter safety course, I was always taught that I was responsible for every round that leaves my firearm.
The urge is to fire the gun. People have the decided that doing it in the air is the safest thing for them to do without feeling the responsibility of potentially killing somebody
@@thottydagod457 🤦and that's why we need firearm safety courses to be far more common.
You fire a gun at a TARGET.
You DO NOT place your finger on the trigger until you've identified your target AND what's beyond it.
Firing a gun into the air is as reckless as driving a car 110mph down a city street.
What is a hunter course
A course taken usually at a young age as a safety course to make sure you know how to properly handle a firearm safely especially since hunting is usually done with a firearm, pretty common to take one in rural areas
@@terence602 safety course to make sure you know how to handle a firearm and all the laws of hunting for youth hunters, often required for a youth hunting license I took one when I was like 14 I think. It's boring but kinda good information for kids that young considering hunting accidents do happen
About 50 years ago, my father's business developed a leaky roof. When he climbed to find the problem, he discovered a spent bullet had created a hole in the roof. He removed the bullet and patched the hole, and all was fine and dry again.
I've always remembered that story, though. Yeah, those falling bullets are dangerous indeed!
I was doing a roof in Detroit. Bullet holes were getting put in the roof while I was doing it. Went home for couple days before finishing.
@@dougvuillemot8670 Wow! All I can say is, it was Detroit!
I once found an intact bullet on the roof of a parking garage, always wondered how it got up there. It had rifled grooves on the sides, and had clearly been fired, but evidently hit nothing.
Someone’s might be at the bottom of the seafloor ☠️
@@beluwuga its probably your mama, she was so dense. She pierced throught the land
Well, it hit your house.
"On" the roof and not "in" it? Your personal evidence seems to contradict this videos conclusion. (Almost every bullet fired into air comes back down doing no damage. Literally 99.999%)
@@therealblackout3659 I've found 2 bullets lodged in roofs in not great neighborhoods. Almost passed through the shingles, id think that might penetrate soft flesh.
I owned a machine shop in Houston, Tx. One morning, I opened my shop to find a bunch of assorted nuts & bolts scattered on the concrete floor. My 1st thought was a "small animal" knocked the plastic tray off of the shelf. I picked up the tray & found that it was broken. As I picked up the nuts & bolts, I found a "slug". I looked up & could see light coming through a hole in the metal roof made by the bullet. If a falling bullet could pierce a metal roof, shatter a plastic tray & knock the entire tray & its contents of nuts & bolts off of a shelf, then it could seriously hurt or kill you.
Thanks for sharing, people need to hear these stories
@@neildouglas2293 I agree - sadly, so many cannot believe or care until 'it' happens to them. Pick your 'it'.
cool story
The celebratory gunfire in Westbury is outrageous!
Maxo maxo
As an aircraft mechanic, I've dug several rounds where they penetrating the wings of parked aircraft. Also, we've had several roof leaks from falling bullets. Atlanta, you know!
~~ population density is a large factor - but I've lived in very rural areas and seen plenty of knuckleheads in the sticks do it - just a much better chance out there that it only hits the dirt.
Terminal birds.....
Metiorites.....
Blue ice.......
This video ruined my fun.
I live in Dekalb County, in the Atlanta area, and I can confirm that you are right. People around here are stupid as Hell. They drive like lunatics, with no fear of death or bodily harm. And that cluelessness extends to celebratory gunfire in the subdivisions on every major holiday. They seem completely incapable of envisioning the consequences of their actions.
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A few years back, our home received a few falling bullet strikes. A home about 1 1/4 miles away (In visual distance, but diagonal to the roads) was celebrating new years or July 4th. We could hear them not just shooting, but doing rapid fire. We were out of the front patio, but when we something hit the patio roof, we came inside. We were "gifted" during the night, with cracked windshields on 2 vehicles. Many of us in the neighborhood called the cops... but they couldn't be bothered to show up.
Here in the Philippines during New Year celebrations, in the 80's to early 2000, there were several emergencies regarding people hit in the head with bullets and bullets found inside homes were a hole can be seen on the ceiling. Due to this the government became very strict in prohibiting firing guns during New Year. Even now, there are still some rare cases but no longer as many as before. Even the police during New Year, the nozzles of their guns has marked sealed taped on it to make sure none of them would use their guns on that day except on special emergency reasons.
Yes, I remember we are not allowed to sleep upstair when its new year.
@@odtuhan Damn those years, thankfully now its rarer to have these kind of incidents.
Why don't you use just the fireworks .
@@silvers2211 yeah but the most recent accident in the Philippines I think is it hit an infant
@@evilchamps7514 we do! LOTS AND LOTS OF IT. But gun owners can be jackasses too. Not to mention that on New Year's day there are a lot of drinking.
When I was in younger, a young lady I was dating was struck in the head by a falling bullet. It was on New Years Eve and she was in a group of people...nobody in the group heard a shot from nearby and it was determined that the impact was from directly above and not from ground level. This was a devistating Injury and although she survived she had to have more than one brain surgery and was never the same.
You dumped her because she had brain damage?
That's cold man
@@althor9997 Like you would continue dating her😂😂
Very uncalled for Levi
😥😭❤
@@althor9997 Its not cold, he just does not wanna live his life taking care of someone, you cant blame him.
This is one of those things I've always wondered, but didn't necessarily need to know. Great vid! 😊
*Thanks so much for the likes!!!* ❤️❤️🥰
Same for me, so thought it was time to find out. Thanks for watching! 👍
I feel like that’s 95% of RUclips lol
This is one of those things I already knew just through common sense.
I've had this question in the back of my head for years and decided to search about it today, only 2 days after the release of this video, the planets have aligned I guess 😊
Yes
As a Greek I always knew falling bullets can be lethal; it is customary in some regions here to shoot guns in the air mostly at weddings but also other joyous events & there have been numerous fatalities…
Just 3 months ago a 25 year old died not by the bullet he shot in the air but the high voltage cable he cut with it.
But anyways such fatalities are common occurrence here (especially in Crete) & I’m surprised not one incident was reported in the video.
It is legal in greece?? How can it be legal in EU lol
@@mateusznowicki9358 I don’t think it is but Crete is kinda like our Texas 😂
As a former roofer of 21 years, in Chicago, i have a collection of bullets that i have pulled from roofs. Some of them went THROUGH the plywood.
I hope I never set foot in Chicago.
As if I needed any more reason not to go to Chicago
with all those strict laws against citizens only the bad guys have guns there
Why wouldn’t it go through plywood
I worked on repairing an old couples' chimney flashing once and found 6 bullets on the roof nearby. I showed them to the couple and they said, yeah the neighbor fires his pistol into the air every new years and 4th of july. I asked if they ever called the police and they said they didn't want to stir up any trouble.
I've always thought celebratory gunfire was one of the stupidest looking things ever. Glad to see its as deadly as I assumed.
what about Chicago on NYE?
"Glad to see its as deadly as I assumed." - really says it all.
Why are u glad
You're glad about it????
tf you glad about??
Well, considering my truck had 2 bullet holes in the roof, the morning of New Years Day and the over hang over the side entrance to my house has a bullet hole, I would say the threat of falling bullets from firing in the air is very real.
ONE bullet hole in the roof of a car or in one's house roof, I would write off as "one of those things." But THREE hits in one night? you were deliberate target practice, not "unlucky."
@@demef758 Not likely, the Sheriffs Department came out and took a report, they told me what I suspected, the bullets came from up above. For someone to have intentionally done that, they would literally have to be floating and shoot down from the sky onto the roof my 7 ft truck and over hang of my house. The more likely scenario is someone was shooting into the sky and the bullets came down.
Also had a hole on my VW bug on New Years, had to use Bondo to patch it up.
With terminal velocity and all the factors considered. What is the difference between a falling bullet and lets say hail?
Stand outside and throw a small rock in the air. Is it going to cause injury when it comes down?
@@demef758 Deliberate target practice? That's a bit of a jump. A guy shooting in the air will typically fire in the same direction, and if he was properly braced when firing to manage the recoil, the shots would take a similar path, especially with low recoil calibers. I wouldn't be surprised if the lawn took some hits too, but that's usually harder to notice. The easy ones to notice are the ones in his vehicle and house.
I worked in Roofing business for 15 years and I pulled alot of bullets from the roofs tracing leaks. What goes up must come down ... anywhere.
My daughter's roof had two bullet holes in it when it was inspected. Another time I talked to a man who was buying ammo to shoot on New Years. I advised him to shoot into the ground or into a tree. He was surprised and alarmed when I told him about falling bullets. Someone else told me they new of someone who had been killed by a,falling bullet.
..a man who was buying ammo to shoot on New Years.
Well, they could have bought some blanks, problem solved, everyone's happy!
Concerning how someone who does not know about all the dangers involving a gun, including falling bullets, is allowed to own one and buy ammo
It always surprises me that people enjoy just firing a gun in a random direction. Isn’t the fun part when you have good accuracy on the target or can shoot at fun stuff like chalk, shook up soda bottle, moving target, etc?
@@Lucas-zd9yn Chalk it up to Constitutional Rights. It should assume a certain amount of responsibility, but stupid beats responsible every time.
I inspect roofs and we found this all the time!
I caught a falling bullet in my shoulder when I was 11. It was New Year's Eve and just turned midnight. I was at a park sitting on my mother's lap. It went all the way through and came out my armpit. So this was never in question for me. Thanks for making this video and bringing attention to the problem. I hope people realize this is not the proper way to celebrate.
Wow! Bless the spirits you're still around as living proof. It's amazing the gun panty fellers debate physics. Do they not know gun fetishes are what attracts only the other gun fetish fellers? Just ask boys on dates! No NRA mass murderer equipment required. It's 2023. NRA boys kissing each other's pickles isn't going to kill innocent bystanders!!
0.308 or 30-06 ?
Ive found 2 bullet holes in the metal roof where I work and found one bullet that didnt penetrate. I work right next to Tucson International Airport. I never considered the airport factor till watching this though. Shooting in the air is really stupid. I got hit with bird shot in the side of the head but just hard enough to just penetrate. It stung. I dont want to know what a bullet feels like. My dad shot himself through the leg. He said it wasnt real bad till much later. It cant be good.
@@tonythomas951 What airport factor?
@@imeprezime1285 That the bullets presented a hazard to our building as well as air traffic since we are right next to an airport.
I’ve always wondered about that. You don’t hear too often about people being killed from bullets falling out of the sky. I’ve always thought shooting a live round in the air was a stupid thing to do regardless because of the risk
4.6% of all gun deaths according to this thing. As stupid as I think everything is, that still surprised me.
@@TheRealDrJoey 4.6% of deaths FROM STRAY BULLETS.
NOT ALL DEATHS.....the words were very specific.
I'd like to know who was paying for a study for 7 years to go around studying only deaths from strays and how they determined it was strays versus a somewhat steep or shallow trajactory based impact.
Sounds like alot of this info is cherry picked or made up.
It's crazy how much misinformation and irrational fear about guns, mostly from people that don't even have guns let alone ever shot one.
I mean yeah, even if you don't happen to hit a person, you could hit a bird.
@@DFOOSKING A stray bullet is any bullet that hits something other than it's intended target. If someone shows up to a hospital with a bullet wound when they know someone wasn't shooting at them the incident will get investigated and logged making it incredibly easy to research without even trying that hard. No conspiracy there bud.
Halloween 2007, in my hometown, a group of teenage boys from out of town came over to randomly harass local trick-or-treaters. They chanced upon a group of high school girls at a park, and one of them fired a gun into the air to frighten them. Unfortunately, a bullet came down and struck one of the girls in the back while she was taking cover behind a tree.
When recalling the tragedy years later, the officer at my high school told our class he was one of the first on site but already knew that the girl was not going to make it when he arrived. There's still a memorial to her in the park today.
My own sister had just been hanging out at the park an hour earlier that night, and it is also scary to think she could have been a victim.
I am from Germany and for me the idea of randomly shooting in the air sounds absolutely enormously rediculous
Baust du wirklich Bananen an?
@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Nein
@@bananenbauer9877 Wäre ja zu schön :D
Basically the same here , since i am from the netherlands.
It’s pretty much ridiculous everywhere except the Middle East and maybe some really poor places in Africa and South America.
Growing up, someone across the street from me would fire bullets in the air every Wednesday, and I was always curious how dangerous it was. Had a feeling it was stupid
@@silliezt_toxiqu3 like ur mom
To keep the neighborhood prices down?
@@silliezt_toxiqu3 I'm telling your mom you said that.
It's Wednesday bitches!!! Arrrrrrrrgh 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
@@JokkaCokka but at what cost?....
*camera starts to zoom in on my face*
*slams fist on the table*
..... BUT AT WHAT COST?!?!?
In the UK we don't generally have guns so we go outside and fire water pistols into the air, fortunately we all carry umbrellas and/or wear bowler hats so the returning water spray isn't a big deal.
😆 my sense of humour
That's the most English thing I've ever heard
wait so you don't discharge your swords and yell God Save the Queen, idk I'm American
@@origaminoob1037 We have a King now...
@@catpainblackudder01 should have discharged your swords
I used to be a radar tech in a National Guard artillery unit. I used to use Graphic Firing Tables to figure out where an outgoing round was going and aim my radar to verify the accuracy of the shot. I remember that it was fairly common for high angle fire to come down at 700+ meters a second. Since that was a 90 pound round, it would surely ruin your day, even if it did not explode.
In 2000, when Y2K was looming, I suggested that we setup one of radars on the hills outside of the city to catch exactly such celebrations. I got no interest for this. I also subsequently found that several fairly senior NCOs had joined the owner of a nearby bar in firing off celebratory rounds that night.
For those who think no one can catch them, the radar was capable of picking up small arms rounds, actually a nuisance when you are chasing artillery, and determining both point of origin and point of impact within 100 meters, often within 50 meters. It just takes the knowledge that the tool exists and the will to use it.
As a roofer, I’ve found 2 bullets buried 1/3 of the way into shingles. One was 9mm the other was .380 and the .380 had a shallow angle. The 9mm was almost straight into the roof. Neither one went through 2 layers of roof shingles.
damn dude that looks scary place to live in
What state?
I saw similar in Louisiana myself once looking at rooftops from hurricane damage 10-13 years ago. It did not penetrate thru the decking. I don’t remember the size of the bullet.
I found 4 in a freshly roofed warehouse a couple years ago in Memphis right after new years day.
Solid roofings are probably sufficient covers for stay bullets. However, the risks are still there for when people are not below such roofings. Where I come from, falling stray bullet deaths are from bullets going through thin metal roofs or just out in the open.
Who would have thought that bits of metal designed to kill, falling at high speeds could be dangerous, this is shocking 😳
I honestly won’t be able to sleep tonight 🤯🤯
@Douglas Pantera sure go ahead, world already have over 7billion peoples..
I thought 😂😂 I was always wondering when they fire the bullet will not disappear and it will fall 👍 but he cleared my doubt
@@gameweb1453 yeah it was actually quite interesting
@@AnthonyPiccirillo yes 👍
My father once told me a story from his days in the army: During a combat drill one soldier tripped and shot one bullet into the air at a rather flat trajectory. Later that day news came in that several villages away from the training ground a senior got hit by that very bullet while gardening in his yard - in his butt. Probably the luckiest unlucky guy I've ever heard of.
It rearly happens
@@michaelpelham9699 happens enough to not shoot in the air.
@@rey6708 butt not rearly
What happened to the stumbling squaddie? Was he assigned a desk job, preferably one where he had to sit on his bum all day every day in charge of accounting for the base's supply of ammo? Until he had learned his lesson.
lucky or unlucky
Here in Greece celebratory gunfire was considered socially acceptable until a few years ago (continues to be in a lot of places). There have been deaths as you can imagine. I remember one being in a village near my city a few years ago when a small girl sitting in her yard was killed by a falling bullet fired some blocks away. It made the news and there was outrage but the habit continues to this day. The Easter of 23' there was someone outside the church I was at firing multiple rounds.
I used to do roofing repairs professionally. It wasn't uncommon to find bullets in the roofing materials. Usually, it did cause a leak but rarely went through the wood.
I do Roof repairs and find many bullets going thru the roof especially metal
I'll bet anyone $10,000 I can guess where you guys are from
Say it for the people in the back
If it did.......
@@ayejae4519 hmm... yeah.. I know that Wooden bullets as well as that silicon bullets, metal bullets? Ah, yes that’s a rare bullet that one is.. bruh.....
It’s extremely ironic that random gunfire isn’t illegal everywhere. “But officer I wasn’t *aiming* at him, he just happened to be in the falling trajectory of the bullet”
Yes, you'd assume that would be illegal in all 50 States and many other places of the world. Unless using the weapon in self defense, hunting or training and you have no control over where it goes reliably, you have no business discharging the weapon.
@@tilasole3252 I'd assume while not directly illegal you'll still be charged for it for another reason.
@@arvidodinson6206 not at all, unless you injure or kill someone. And even then you can feign ignorance and give a fake apology and most likely all be well.
@@tilasole3252 i dont think thats how it works. if you actually kill someone with the falling bullet, you'd still be held accountable for the death. Although you wouldnt probably be charged with murder, most likely you would be charged with negligent homocide/Involuntary manslaughter.
@@marcuspoosz2190 depends on the lawyer, what state and the judge. Too much goes on today with direct proof and people still get off with hardly a slap on the wrist.
I had debated this to my friend for literally years now that falling bullets are dangerous. I hope this helps him understand.
Your friend sounds like they need to go to a 5th grade physics class
@@Jkrocsko You mean 10th grade right? Very few primary teachers let alone 5th graders are capable of a comprehensive presentation nor an understanding of physics. Even high school courses are basically physics samplers, and far from comprehensive. Physics belongs at the university.
By the way, this is a fun video, but it's geared for midwits...a cartoon for fanboys to make them feel up-to-date and smart
In our country, people die or hit by stray bullets yearly (every new year's eve) because some idiot prefer shooting gun in the air rather use fireworks. The youngest victime I've known was 9 y old. She died.
@@jeromewesselman4653 I was with you until you just couldn't help but being smug.
Yeah I think this is an over exaggeration. Straight up is a very low probability but this guy is using some very deceptive statistics. Probably a Democrat...
My grandfather was at a party in the 50s and someone died on the spot from a bullet falling into his head. Someone had shot a pistol into the air a few blocks away.
Working as a commercial roofer in mostly larger cities on the east coast of the US you wouldn’t believe how many bullets I pull out of roofs or how many holes I fix where the round punches clean through. I’ve seen pass throughs on metal, shingles and other asphalt roofs and membrane systems. I can’t imagine the stupidity required to fire rounds into the air
I find any where from 7 to 20 every year in roofs...its crazy to think it could hit someone
Yeah, it’s idiotic. Scary there’s that many.
I seem to recall the Mythbusters doing this one, reaching the conclusion that a bullet shot straight up won't necessarily fall with lethal velocity, but at an angle it can keep its spin and remain sufficiently dangerous.
I seem to recall they gave that one a verdict of “Busted… _and_ Confirmed?”
It really all boils down to weight and speed. No.9 birdshot can be fired straight up safely because of its very light weight and low velocity. Compare that to something like an artillery shell, which even accidentally dropped from 3ft on one’s foot will hurt.
@@SquirrelDarling1 exactly no small arms projectile even the largest that are weighed in grains could be lethal falling at terminal velocity.
Exactly man saw that episode and basically shooting straight upwards a bullet isn’t lethal but any shallow angle is.
Most bullets fired in the air will be at some angle other than straight up. It would be quite difficult to shoot at exactly vertical.
One of my friends got shot in the head by a lost bullet at a house party when we were in College. The bullet came through the roof and got stuck on his brain. It didn't kill him but he lost his ability to talk, walk and it aged his body incredibly. He looked 55 by the time he was 25. He was the bread winner in his family too. Please don't do this, it can be life changing not just for the person getting hit but by all his loved ones.
USA ?
That's crazy dude Im surprised he Survived that.
usa??
Yes, it was in Seattle. We were students at the University of Washington
Of course its USA.
I was taking out the trash in an apartment complex in a not so great area of Phoenix. I'm about halfway through the parking lot, heading to the dumpster, when I hear a metallic clinking sound on the ground directly behind me. I look back and theres a fresh bullet on the ground right behind me. I pick it up and it looks like a .45, still warm. If I would have come out 2 seconds later than I did, I would have got it. I also have a video on my channel of being pinned down behind some bushes while hiking through the desert north of Phoenix as bullets are loudly whizzing right over my head, and landing on the ground around me, as bullets seemed to be coming from everywhere by people who pulled up, hopped out, and just started shooting into my area without seeing me. It would be the second video on my channel where I'm nearly hit by stray bullets in the desert north of Phoenix. The first one I suddenly seemed to be in the middle of a shootout in the middle of nowhere, after not seeing a person for miles. Machine gun fire, shotguns, you name it were going off everywhere around me by what seemed like two groups firing at each other, while completely hidden in the large bushes all around me. I never saw one of them and all the shooting stopped as quickly as it started.
Many years ago I was just getting in my truck to go to lunch. I was in the parking lot of my company which was located about a half mile from a gravel pit where the local Sheriff's had a makeshift shooting range for the deputies. I could hear the shooting but it was a normal thing so I didn't pay any attention to it. Suddenly, I was hit in my upper back, right of my spine and it knocked my into the side of my truck. I looked down and there was a .40 bullet laying on the pavement. I later proved in a court like meeting with the Sheriff and the county attorney that the officers involved were shooting up in the air at an angle of approximately 40 degrees. The bullet matched one of the deputy's weapon. I still have the bullet. The bullet made it through tall pine trees on top of the hill and struck me unimpeded. It was late fall and I was wearing a heavy t-shirt, flannel shirt and a heavy leather flight jacket. I had a bruise that went from the impact point to below my buttocks on the right side. It hurt like hell and I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been for the leather jacket, it would have slightly penetrated my skin. The jacket still has the impression of the bullet over 30 years later.
Stupid cops...smh
Thanks for sharing, I'm glad your ok. Hope you got the justice and compensation you deserve.
Well jackets don’t heal Soo…
You surely are a badass man. Having a 30-year-old bullet that almost penetrated your skin once.
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH strawman, pretentious one.
When I was a kid, was hit by a falling bullet on my foot, I just had a stinging effect that was over in seconds, this made me believe that they were not dangerous. I now understand that it depends on many factors.
Were you standing up? Cuz you are probably quite lucky it only hit your foot
@@minorcomet282 I was standing, I don't think it would have killed me if it hit me in the heard, there was no skin damage, so I suppose it wasn't a powerful firearm.
@@santopino2546 nah bruh, that was just hail 😂 lmao, a bullet would've gone through your foot
@@santopino2546 yeah sorry but it was probably something like a fast bee
It was a bullet, I picked it up, it was lead, I cannot remember if it was quite damaged after hitting something, but nothing near me, I would of heard it.
I was an Airforce helicopter engineer doing a stint in Iraq at Basra Airbase around 2008. I was sat in the office doing my paperwork when the fan next to me made a loud noise and dust kicked up around it. Turns out a football celebration bullet had returned to earth down through the roof of the cabin and hit the fan. We had over 400 rockets fired at the base while I was there but that stray bullet was the most memorable.
Glad your are ok.
To all the people in the world who are learning English, please take note of the following:
The text: ... I was sat in the office ... is WRONG. It should be either : ... I was sitting in the office ... or ... I sat in the office ...
@@christopherknee5756 Even more wrong? Being in Iraq during a football celebration.
@@christopherknee5756 No, that's normal grammar in some regions. It definitely reads as a bit old-timey though.
@@christopherknee5756 are you familiar with the existence of British people?
I was taught this at a very early age and have always wondered about this so thanks for the info. When I was a youngster back in the late 60's my dad was on the sheriff reserve or posse as it was called then and was issued a service revovler (38 special) and would shoot it in our back yard on the 4th of July and new years eve. He always told me to never shoot a gun up in the air because, you know, gravity, so he would would shoot it into the ground. Anyway, nice explainer video and thanks again.
I don't live in the US but my father served in the army in the Balkans and here we have tons of weapons and I remember as a kid going to buy an airsoft rifle and the girl selling it pointed the gun to the roof to fire to show it works even tho it was empty I remember my dad immediately grabbing the barrel and pointing it down saying to me and her that if you ever want to testfire a weapon you point it at the ground away from you.
In 2007, a cop of Macau fired 5 rounds into the air during a street protest and one of the bullet hit a random guy's chest 300m away which almost killed him. It definitely can be lethal.
That’s stupid
If you don’t have a weapon or have not been around a gun all your life don’t believe everything someone tells you. Have any of you ever dove or duck hunted? Shot from a shotgun rain down all over. The only way you could be injured is if you were looking up without eye protection. However hand guns and rifle projectiles are different. Angle and velocity play the major factor in severity of injury. Fact. Do you know the range of the weapon. Do you know the weight of the projectile? Most important, do you know who or what is down range? Fact, only an idiot would fire a hand gun or rifle into the air.
If the bullet is not on a ballistic arc, the fastest it can go is terminal velocity, which is no faster than if it was dropped from a height.
Firearms expert Julian Hatcher studied falling bullets in the 1920s and calculated that . 30 caliber rounds reach terminal velocities of 90 m/s (300 feet per second or 186 miles per hour). A bullet traveling at only 61 m/s (200 feet per second) to 100 m/s (330 feet per second) can penetrate human skin but that's a lot slower than a fired round.
No it can’t
Shannon Smith, mentioned in this video, was the daughter of our neighbor, just two houses away. She was only 14 when a bullet "fell out of the sky" and ended her life. Maybe this video will make a few people think before shooting carelessly into the air.
Wait really you knew her also as someone who has grown up in Phoenix all 15 years of my life gun fire is still very common in the middle of the city I wish this law was more widely enforced
Bullshit
Nah, it is a common trend of internet trolls pretending to be present or know someone who happened to be part of an event.
Yup, which Is why the majority of Americans want guns to be banned, but the right wingers are crazy attached to the constitution and think it's like the 10 commandments and can't ever be changed.
As Obama said, the constitution is fluid, and was never intended to be permanent. God bless him and Biden for trying to rid the US citizens of guns.
Cops aren't going to respond to those calls, especially if its a neighborhood on the " wrong side of the tracks"..
Though I guarantee that if gunshots rang off in one of those gated white folk communities then the SWAT team would he there in a matter of minutes.
I work in a rail yard just south of Chicago and on July 4th and New years you could hear the falling bullets hitting containers and trains all around us, luckily our supervisors dont have a problem with us just staying inside for like an hour until the shots die down. Be safe out there guys.
who on earth would have a problem with that lol
Get yourself a steel umbrella.
Sorry, but even the best marksman is incapable of shooting a gun straight up in the air and hitting an intended target. No, those hits you heard that night were semi-horizontal shots, not vertical shots.
@@GodInHisPrime You'd be surprised
" Shut up and get back to work maggot, comma you can hide from bullets on your own time. we're not paying you to sit in the break room and do nothing."
Ah the good old days
Take an early lunch
The best source material for this is "Hatcher's notebook", by Julian Hatcher. He rewrote all the books on ballistics, and answered many questions about exterior ballistics.
I live in a state with lots of guns (Kentucky). This is a surprisingly common warning to find in stores and hear in gun-savvy groups. When I bought my first AR the clerk even casually mentioned not to fire it into the air. Frankly, I am of the mind we need to teach basic gun safety in schools in areas with as many guns as ours (i.e. 5 rules of firearm safety and related safety habits like this). I even remember after one of the controversial police shootings lately that a news anchor questioned why the officer didnt fire a warning shot into the air (despite the event occuring in a densely populated suburb). My friends and I laughed at the idiotic suggestion, but thinking about it, the thought that seems common sense to us may not be so obvious to those who have seldom been around guns.
Information is power, in my opinion, most of the usage problems and myths associated with guns around the world come from misinformation and lack of proper gun education.
This is especially bad in countries where guns are a "civil right".
I think that most people wouldn't discharge firearms into the air or think that it is normal if they were taught gun discipline (among other things).
Gun safety, and the reason for the 2nd amendment, should be taught at every school in America
@@AbysmalGaming I have a feeling you and I would get along lol.
@Ghustak Ali Khan Enjoy. Though I travel frequently, it is still probably my favorite place (I am very lucky to live there. Lots to do outdoors, and the scenery is gorgeous.
@Ghustak Ali Khan I dont know them too well, but if I remember that is one of the more populus states and has a ton of famous temples and statues. I have not made it to India yet, so I am not sure where it sits geographically.
I work a lot on roofs in a large USA city, and do occasionally find bullets deeply imbedded into asphalt shingles -- so yeah, that's some downward force that could definitely hurt.
Liar
@@znismo1 well, he could just be in Memphis,m Chicago, or Detroit
@@znismo1 ignoranus
@@greycloud7401 anus
@@kakalimukherjee3297 balls
Falling arrows are far scarier. My dad shot an arrow in the air in the back yard when I was a kid and we all ran inside the house. Arrow landed in our neighbors back yard in the awning of back door! Nobody was home so my dad jumped the fence to pull out the arrow and told me that was incredibly stupid thing he did. Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least your dad was able to admit it. My dad would've found a way to pin it on me or someone else
All you guys lost. You guys were supposed to see who stays in the circle the longest.
@@Chief305 lmao
Lol @Dads. Such a Dad move
One of the top five rules of gun safety is to "Know your intended target AND what lies beyond". To we the responsible gun owners, that means NO RANDOM SHOOTING period.
Bullets may seem to be spinning slowly due to the angle of the rifling but that velocity masks the true rotational speed which is massive, an AK47 bullets spins at about 3000 revolutions per second and will continue spinning even after it has run out of velocity. This spin will resist it turning around and will keep pointing in the same directions as it left the gun even as gravity causes it to fall back down.
This will result in it having much less air resistance than if tumbling and mostly falling sideways. Also when it hits something (like someone's head) it will concentrate its force in a much smaller area.
Unless fired at any significant angle in which case it will precess slowing it considerably.
I have been curious whether or not bullets orient themselves with the trajectory as they go. I understand the stabilizing effect and tendency to remain oriented parallel to the barrel, but aerodynamic forced for an extended period of time may turn the bullet.
That said, as far as I can tell, a bullet isn't designed well for maintaining a tip-forward path. It seems like a bullet would slowly lose the tip-forward orientation as it is turned sideways by aerodynamic forces.
Anyway, a particularly interesting question is what a bullet does when fired at 20-30°? Does it remain oriented upward as it falls or does the tip point down as it falls? If the tip points upward it seems like that would cause a significant lift force and delay the fall.
@@robinlehnerd1475 Well, the angle a barrel is pointed "up" and the angle the bullet then descends down is a VERY small angle at most ranges a rifle will typically be used. Typically, less than 1 degree, that's for a typical range under 400m.
But you're right this is an issue when it comes to very very precise shooting so it's important for sniper rifles to have BARELY enough "spin" to the bullet so that it doesn't wobble in the air but as the trajectory curves down the bullet will be adjusted by the aerodynamic forces to always be "pointing into the wind".
"It seems like a bullet would slowly lose the tip-forward orientation as it is turned sideways by aerodynamic forces."
The main net effect is counterintuitive due to the magnus effect and gyroscopic procession.
What will actually happen is very counterintuitive as the air friction is so massive, and the spin rate is so astonishingly fast and you have the further complications of how it's travelling faster than the speed of sound so you have supersonic shockwaves.
This wouldn't be a problem in itself as this would be fairly constant over range but the problem with long range shooting is wind, that is the variable that you can't really control and is pretty hard to measure so really you want a bullet that is affected very very little by the wind.
"Anyway, a particularly interesting question is what a bullet does when fired at 20-30°?"
That's pretty commonly with machine guns, as while any individual shot of a machine gun is pretty imprecise, by shooting a huge volume it's like a shotgun firing many pellets of birdshot, it averages out into cone of fire that curves through the sky and down. The area it lands is known as the "beaten zone".
Do these bullets fly straight through the air?
Good question, it varies from one machine gun and ammunition type to another, it's the field of "external ballistics" and it seems that not all bullets perform the same.
Now think about the rotation speed of the 220 swift, always wondered why that round punched way above its weight class. Till I read a book on exterior ballistics.
Thanks for posting this. I think I read somewhere that a high resolution, high speed radar on a US Army proving ground showed that the spin makes it so that bullets do follow a parabola adjusted for air friction but that they remain more/less pointing upward as launched so that steep angles lead to keyhole-like holes in target paper etc at a distance.
While walking through the woods one sunny spring afternoon I heard shots in the distance and didn't think anything of it. They were a long way off and gunfire is pretty common. Then there was a crack and my chest hurt. A 38/357 round fell from probably half a mile off, skimmed/ricocheted off a tree, and hit me square in the chest. Still have the bullet.
OMG. Did you survive?
@@AutPen38 no, he died unfortunately
@Arty Lee. Here's your sign!!!!!😂
@@AutPen38 yah. he died.
WOW Dude! I know that feeling too. Thank God that we are still here to tell about it.
After reading all these comments from people who've either been shot or knew someone who'd been shot or killed I can see how often people have been hurt. I had no idea. Just reminds to be even more careful with my weapon. Thanks for the info
No, tha video is bull.
And most of these people are talking about bullets that were SHOT AT AN ANGLE.
No bullet shot straight up could do what most of these people are talking about.
@@maxdrags3115 lmao
@@HuggyBuddyOwO Haha so funny right yeah its just so funny what he said😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😀
Guys max is one of those people with firearms celebrating by shooting the damn gun randomly so lets just go along with him, its clear he just doesnt want to accept the truth until something happens lul
@@maxdrags3115
A bullet shot straight up would have enough time to reach terminal velocity on the way down and easily pierce both muscle and bone, let alone the squishy fatal stuff that lies underneath. How in the bloody hell is gravitational acceleration this hard for you to understand?
Oof, I always assumed the terminal velocity of a falling bullet would be way too low to do more than just hurt a lot as long as the angle was mostly vertical since air resistance would prevent it from going very fast, but I guess I was wrong since 90m/s is still pretty fast. Makes sense that something with the mass of a bullet at that speed could easily punch through the thinner parts of the skull and kill you.
My aunt's father was sheriff here in the early 1900s, on New Years Eve at the town celebration, all me were encouraged to wear their revolvers, if they didn't have one the city furnished at table of guns they could barrow. Also, don't forget in WW1 the practice of aiming a heavy machine gun into the air to shower themselves with bullets was an acceptable means to drive back an enemy over running their position, it was known as "Hard Rain"
DIY artillery
@@matthew8153 I mean it's kinda brutal if you ask me because the tops of helmets wouldn't be enough to stop the bullets and it's thousands of tiny unpredictable near silent killers so whoever hit would drop like flies
@@TheTallOne890 . WW1-2 helmets were made only to protect you from falling debris from ground shell bursts. They were never designed to deflect rounds, thoe there are a few recorded incidents of the helmet doing just that but it was purely down to luck.
@@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 I know this but you at least understand my point right
@@keithsimpson2150 I read this like Time machine gun??? Like your gonna shoot someone into the 1900s 😂
About 40 years ago, an acquaintance was watching July 4th fireworks when he was struck by a celebratory shot from a .45 automatic fired about 2 blocks away. He was hit in the leg and suffered roughly a 30% permanent disability due to muscle and nerve damage in his lower leg, resulting in a dropped foot. Police caught the culprit, who was tried and convicted and served a multi-year prison sentence.
Legs are below head level , what was he doin laying down ?
@@correctpolitically4784 watching the july 4 fireworks?
Years ago, my aunt had a falling bullet hit her thigh when sitting inside the house, which required surgery to remove. People must know that you could kill somebody when firing at the sky. Indeed you might have killed somebody without knowing it if you have done it a lot
And the worst thing is even if they kill someone I think it's not possible to find and arrest this person.
its fucking stupid to do too
@@Voltomess well they actually can track the bullet but without the use of money nothing would happen to the idiot who fired it
@@Voltomess Worst? You serious? The worst thing about an accident is that you don’t find someone to blame and ruin their life as well?
Some priorities you’ve got
@@Neo2266. If that person isn't found, it will most likely injure/kill someone again.
In 2006 I was at a wedding in Mexico. It's a big thing to celebrate by discharging your gun into the air. Around 6 men were shooting straight up. I was sitting under a huge tarp, the ones uses to cover roofs that leak water. I heard what I believed were rocks falling on the tarp. Curiously I was able to bring down around 8-10 bullets from the tarp. Those rounds were mainly from 9mm, 45, and 38 super. I was surprised when I grew up and saw videos like this explaining that falling bullets are lethal. To this day, I'm shocked that these falling bullets didn't even penetrate a thin tarp. Before people claim that I'm wrong, I know what bullets look like. That day, I first hand witnessed that bullets don't go as fast coming down compared to when they shoot out from the barrel.
because they shot at 90°, did you actually watch the video?
I was at a bar with a friend on July 4th and right before my eyes he was hit with a stray bullet fired from somewhere across town. It nearly missed his head and instead lodged into his shoulder/collar bone area missing his rotator cuff luckily. I couldn't believe it when it happened but it definitely happened.
Must have sucked
@R S 😆
@@dynevor6327 "Near miss" is a term that technically means "near hit". Doesn't make much sense lol but it means something that missed, but was near an object it COULD have damaged.
@@dynevor6327 I near miss doesn't mean it nearly missed, it means a miss that was near (to hitting)
I had never heard the myth that celebratory fire was safe.
All the guys who do it know it's dangerous, and they just don't care.
Depends what kind of gun and bullet
Like smoking... "I probably shouldn't... But I'll do it anyway."
@@superymariowest2403 or the good ole, "there's nothing in that direction anyway"
I tend to think they are too stupid, to know bullets that go up , must come down.
@@indoorkite651 cant really compare shooting up in a large ranch to shooting up in a city/urban area
I met a kid (another patient) when visiting a doctor's clinic. He had been wounded by a bullet. The doctor had removed the bullet and he was in for follow up checkup.
The bullet hit him when he was taking a nap on his bed. The bullet came through the roof and into his stomach. Luckily, it didn't hit any vital organ. His house was a one story building with no other building higher than his in the area.
So, shooting upward IS dangerous. That's why we are told to point the gun downward. Same thing with bow and arrow.
Imagine just having a nice dream when suddenly you wake up seeing a bullet hole in your stomach
@@CloroxBleach42069 "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAFE ZONE!"
Don't tell me it happened in Indonesia ..
I played enough minecraft to know this
@@bang-naim are Gandhis found in Indonesia too?
Midnight on New Years or 0000 hrs in Vietnam 1968 an m-60 gunner on our perimeter decided to fire straight in the air leaving a nice tracer trail. This also prompted two more perimeter guards to fire their m-60’s straight up. When I grabbed and put on my steel pot and stood straight up a couple of my squad mates laughed until the morning that is when two of those 7.62 mm rounds were found having gone through the corrugated metal roof and stuck in the wooden floor of the only “building” in the base camp as the rest were 6 man tents on dirt.
I remember how in 2014 some school back in Germany reported how 3mm bullet fragments were found on the schoolyard. 3KM away was a military camp testing some new ammunition into the air. Imagine the possible outcome.
YOU are accountable for EVERY round that leaves YOUR gun.
Seriously
Well, Jamaicans always knew that falling bullets are dangerous. However, the gunmen that plague our island still do gun salutes every New Years Eve which hurt many people. Thanks for this detailed video.
Same thing in mexico
Same in a lot of us cities
Bless ya Sophia and the land of the Scotch Bonnet sauce!
3:27 „a velocity which increases by 9.81 m/s - every second“. It really took me until today to understand how the m/s^2 unit used for measuring acceleration works 🤯🤦♂️
Sadly this happens a lot in the country I live in and there have been a number of deaths as a result , it is not rare to hear about someone dying from a random bullet. The last one I heard about was a man at his wedding day , people there began shooting in the air with pistols and some were armed with AK-47s with live rounds, poor girl lost her man at what supposed to be her happiest day , may he rest in peace.
It just wasn’t meant to be
Middle East?
@@Likmontana212 The bullet hole in him wasn't meant to be. The marriage was meant to be.
Highly doubt this happened. Someone firing in the air would have to be almost precisely vertical to hit someone that close to them on the bullet's descent. Even a slight change in the angle of the shot would throw the bullet off by hundreds of feet to a mile.
Think about if you were going to shoot an AK-47 in the air, you are not going to point it straight up, it will be at to far of an angle for it to come down and hit anyone close to you.
@@Suicidal_Soy_Sauce exactly person probably lost control and fired into the crowd as evident by the dozens of videos of that exact thing happening
A couple of years ago I noticed a bullet hole in the roof of my car. The bullet penetrated the outer skin and stopped when it hit the metal pan underneath the area under the retracted sunroof. I only noticed the whole thing when hearing the bullet rolling around as I was driving.
saw them have to be pulled out of a truck hood with plyers...and find them mushroomed on the pavement...yes not that rare.
I guess I won't buy anymore convertible top cars, or sleep in a tent. LOL
This is probably God shooting at you.
My parents were absolutely anti-gun, but one day my dad came home with an archery set for me and my brother to practice with. This was not some kid's set, but an actual grown-up bow with real, very pointy arrows. So here we are, about two days later, shooting arrows at the target we had nailed to a tree, when one of us had the brilliant idea of shooting the arrows straight up into the sky, just to see how far they would climb. Even more brilliant, however, was the sun that afternoon. The arrow went up and we immediately lost sight of it in the sun's glare. Some seconds later, we heard a distinct THUNK on the ground and looked for the source of the sound. The arrow had landed in a perfectly vertical position, about two inches deep, less than a foot from my brother. We never used the bow again.
Yeah. Same here. And about that close to a friend. Felt a LOT closer though. Never did that again. Still shoot, but only at targets.
People often ignore the reality that when in the air, Mr Gravity is not your friend
I almost think it is a right of passage for kids to shoot arrows in the air and hope no one gets hit I know my friend's and I also did this as kids but we did it more often than I would like to admit it was quite a rush not knowing where the arrow was going to land.
It's always the people with the least experience with weapons who do the dumbest shit. Especially your dad in this case.
Bullets shot from a rifle will spin, but as the video says, if they go straight up, then when they come down they tumble in their fall and slow themselves down. Not so for arrows. The fletching (feathers) on an arrow will make it point downward and also spin so that it doesn't tumble. It will hit the ground with about the same speed as when it left the bow. We also shot arrows into the air a few times but I don't think we lost sight of them. They usually came down at least 20 feet away from us. Fortunately this idea soon got very boring so that we started shooting at actual targets again.
My friend, the Pentagon Bird... developed the 85mm Recoilless Cannon, in the barnyard, and when he tested it on his outlying farm, it got air response from two air biases here in Ohio, and FBI/ATF, and a Contract from the Department of Defense to continue testing at the Picatinny Arsenal in the Potamic. Transporting the weapon there, it blew up a large Gasoline Station in the DC Beltway. The gun was a huge success and Bob won his case... it was setup to blow up, by someone stupid.... WOW.. Please Read the Book, "The Pentagon Wars".
Years ago, while repairing the flashing around my house's chimney, I found a .22 caliber bullet embedded nose-down into the composite roofing. Obviously enough energy to cause injury, even by a "low power" caliber.
I love the scientific detail and how this was put together along with all the facts. Great job and thank you!
He never compared the Kinetic Energy leaving the barrel with the Kinetic Energy of a falling bullet. KE=12MassX velocity Squared.
If a bullet is traveling 3000feet per second up, but only 300 feet per second down, the KE leaving the barrel is 100 times the KE of when it falls at terminal velocity. 100 times less damage on the way down. Could it hurt? Yeah. Could it kill? I doubt it.
should be 1/2 mass not 12 mass.
@@garysmith8593 the video implies that a bullet would reach 6 times the kinetic energy needed to break skin. cracking skulls like that seems unlikely. the reported cases might be angled shots or very unlucky hits.
An interesting observation. Living in the UK, I always wondered if any civilians were hit/injured/killed in 1931/1940 when an intense amount of arial dogfights took place over the county of Kent.
That would be a interesting study. I've wondered that myself. 1000s of round coming out of each plane had to land somewhere.
and this is why self detonating shells and fuzes were invented
Not only that, and perhaps even worse, think of all the debris from flak cannons that would have had to come back down. The only thing I'm figuring is that people living in those areas knew it was occurring, and I'm sure they stayed inside or hidden during raids.
I read in memoir from WW1 about soldier who was killed by splinter from arial dogfight.
And don't forget, during WWII bombing raids over cities, large numbers of flak guns were firing shells up at the bombers. While most of the shells detonated in the air, they spread out large amounts of metal fragments. Except for the small portion which embedded themselves in enemy aircraft, the remainder of these shell fragments also fell back to earth. During an air raid you take cover, not just from the bombs but from your own defences.
A 'falling bullet' can have many parameters. Anything fired at 45° or shallower angle can travel great distances and still be lethal. A bullet fired over head, where it decelerate to a stop, the falls, depends a lot on the shape and quality of the projectile. Does it tumble, for example? How heavy is it. Mass may not matter VS gravity, but air friction and mass can have a significant role in final velocity.
I'd simply prefer NOT to get hit by any bullet, falling or otherwise.
Actually had this happen in my childhood. Dad shot at something with 22 LR and it broke somebodies window over 1/2 mile away. Also my mother was hit by falling shrapnel from anti aircraft fire in London in WW2, apparently a fairly common experience.
How old was your mom?
About a year before the pandemic began, one of my coworkers (who lives in a suburb of Houston, TX) was outside with her kids and several neighbors watching a fireworks display to celebrate New Year's Eve. She said some other neighbors were firing guns up into the sky (as is always the case here). Well, a falling bullet struck one of her neighbors in the neck. My coworker and her kids had to witness this elderly lady bleed out right in front of them. She said it was absolutely horrible. Not the neat and tidy bleeding you see on TV, but pouring as if from a water hose out of her mouth and neck, so much so that the lady was drowning in her own blood. She said there was nothing they could do and it was over in two minutes. It was even on the local news. Her kids had to have therapy due to the psychological trauma of seeing such a thing happen right in front of them. And as you've probably already guessed, it didn't phase these idiots here in Houston one bit. Guns being fired into the sky on New Year's and July 4th are still a regular occurrence.
The perps must have been some of those white supremacists they keep talking about in Washington DC.
@@demef758 most likely, yes
Seriously, why is celebratory gunshots still legal
@@Acroflame It wouldn't matter much if it was illegal. Idiots and criminals tend to ignore gun laws.
@@Acroflame, discharging firearms within city limits is illegal in most places in the USA (I won't say all because I cannot know about every place).
I'm glad you sited actual research, and addressed terminal velocity.
Keep up the good work.
Except it's just one experts claim. It's not evidence at all. And why is that "expert" from Mumbai?
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@@LarsLarsen77 "The measure of intellect is the ability to change", not being from a wealthy country, hope you understand ;)
@@LarsLarsen77 I am an engineer, I can assure you the mathematics used was correct.
Simple Newtonian physics is all it takes to figure this out.
@@LarsLarsen77 you can't do any research about stray bullets in peaceful places
I just discovered your channel and it’s one of the few bright spot on the septic system called You Tube. Thanks!
Easily one of the most asinine things anyone holding a gun can do. Even without such a well done video explaining it to anyone who wouldn't otherwise be capable of deducing the outcome on their own. Side note, anyone not capable of the latter should not be holding a gun.
cope, it's fun
On new years eve I probably heard more gunshots than fireworks. People are unbelievably stupid.
People who should not be near guns are the ones most likely to get them.
@@windowsxseven Shooting guns is fun. Shooting guns in a random direction into the air is a sign that you shouldn't have a gun.
@Repentance: The Missing Link Of True Salvation Believer here. However, your comment is not what is intended by be the light imo. It's off-putting to non-believers. There are better ways to be and shine the light.
I remember going to a friend's house as a teenager, we had a home-made yew bow left to dry so it was time to test it. Dude had the brilliant idea to shoot it at a near vertical angle, with one of those super light carbon arrows from the store. We ran inside for cover, no idea where it landed. Luckily we didn't hear anything from the police after that.
I used to do that as a kid. Trick was to stand perfectly still. Once one landed in arms reach and I stopped doing it. Most of the time the wind would carry it off trajectory so it would land yards away. But just that 1 time it didn't and it scared me enough to stop doing it.
Experience is the best teacher, they said.
But i somehow think we humans are deliberately created that "way" in some ways.
Dead men don’t tell tales.
@@spankynater4242
so that, others may live.
@@Kamalaaintblack A couple friend I've known since grade school did this once with target arrows. Luckily one of them managed to see where the arrow would land and told the other to move. Landed right where he was standing.
Here in Kansas City, there were over 1,000 rounds shot off at New Year’s this year (2022). In a prior year, we had a victim (i.e. unintentioned death) from a free-fall bullet. It is as if some people have never heard of gravity. One of my neighbors last night shot a gun every time the Chiefs scored a TD over the Steelers. It makes one a bit uneasy.
Sounds like Covid
Time to get rid of the neighbor...
Lol let's go chiefs!!
Better chance of dying ehile driving dont stress it unless you think the person will lose control of the fire arm or fire at such a wide angle its likely to kill. Beat thing would be if they where firing a shotgun pellets just dont carry the same energy and power as a regular bullet
A little girl died in Virginia at a place called Sunday Park during a 4th of July celebration. A bullet fell from the sky and strucker in the head. I have also personally witnessed a rifle bullet come down from the sky in Hawaii and go through the metal roof of my landlords office, landing in his chair. The round was going much slower, but it was till enough to kill anyone unlucky enough to be in its path
did anyone get caught for either?
@robi6317 unfortunately no, it's almost impossible to trace a single bullet fired into the air, please stop someone if you see them doing that (as long as it's safe to do so)
Morning after new years a decade back my cousin went to his garage and found his windshield smashed. He was totally perplexed as the it was clear no one had broken into the house. There was a bullet lodged in the upholstery. It has gone through shingles, insulation, sheetrock, a windshield, and part way through a leather seat.
Hmm. Sounds like an elaborate insurance scam. Did he have a lot of chips in his windshield? 🤔😆
@@deathwrenchcustom sounds like one heck of a round to make it through all that!
Don't forget the 1/2" or 5/8" plywood roof sheathing. Must have been a high velocity rifle round.
The question of "what would happen to Earth if you had a gun that could shoot a bullet into space" feels like something XKCD would come up with.
We would use it to fire nuclear weapons and spaceships.
It's actually been considered as a way to launch satellites into space. There's even a start up that's trying to freesbee one into space
jules verne was so ahead of its time
It would be called a Rocket, and nothing would happen to Earth. The end.
No, rockets work completely differently.
I've heard of a lady dying in my country from bullets that were shot from the barracks. The bullet hit her and she was literally miles away from the gun.
not far enough