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.
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…
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.
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 😊
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.
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 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
In Germany, you have to obtain a certificate of competence in order to get a firearms license. In the associated course we had learned how dangerous falling projectiles can be. Even those from handguns. A number I made a note of: a 9 mm Parabellum falling vertically can deliver 70 joules of energy at the target. That doesn't sound like much, but it's almost equivalent to the muzzle energy of a 6.35mm Browning caliber cartridge. Lethal.
@@rickybungalow8839in Germany you can’t shoot your cops or a school. Also you can’t flip off a cop here in USA ‘cause they’ll pull you over and use qualified immunity as excuse for violating your rights.
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 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
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.
When I was young I was struck in the head by a falling bullet and unfortunately died. I now roam the internet warning people of this danger in the comments section.
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 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.
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.
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’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.
Thanks for this informative video. I need to send it to some of my neighbors that think it's OK to shoot branches out of trees. I've always been told (but always questioned) that the velocity of the falling bullet would reach the muzzle velocity upon impact. I always felt that there must be a terminal velocity for falling bullets that was much less than the muzzle velocity. Thanks for clarifying this!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I know of a case where a kid playing outside climbing a wall suddenly fell while his parents were having a BBQ on new years. turned out a bullet that someone shot in the air came down and hit the kid in the head killing him.
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.
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".
8:00 For me as a German with strict gun laws, it's unbelievable to think that uncontrolled shooting into the air in public places was legal... Like WTF, use your brain?
@@demef758 Me looking for a Pro-Gun argument in Germany (or anywhere) while not hearing the Argument of WW2 be like 👁👄👁 Honestly, as a German, everytime someone brings that shit up now i'm just gonna be like "Oh yeah, personally i also did that myself" just to make them feel dumb af
@@demef758 so u think the population wouldve armed themselves against the Nazi regime? Are u aware that this "regime" was in a legitimately elected political coalition and had widespread support of said population? ur a naive clown to think that an armed civilian population wouldve changed much. They had a person cult much like the Trump person cult.. very similar.. even the overbearing patriotism and nationalism and reverence for police and police brutality. Seems like history is bound to repeat itself because of brain amputated clowns like u, who know nothing but spread misinformation to remove gun restrictions. Jan 6 was the beer hall putsch. This story will likely continue if ur orange master stays in politics, bootlicker
Rather ironic statement. You have so many rules so you don't have to use your brain. Do as you are told; smarter people have figured it all out for you.
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.
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.
I've seen Texas home inspectors showing bullets lodged in roofs deep enough it could easily penetrate a skull. Falling bullets are definitely dangerous.
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.
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.
@@isuckaspresident.dementiajoe 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.
A friend of mine when we lived in South Africa was standing outside in the garden one New Year's Eve. Their 9 year old son fell over stone dead. Someone in their neighbourhood shot a bullet into the air and the young lad was killed.
The weird thing to think about is that for a bullet fired straight up, if you happened to be floating in a balloon gondola right next to the zenith of its flight, you could basically reach out and grab it, though it might still be hot. Imagine a bullet reaching you about as fast as someone lobbing it upward and then momentarily stopping before it fell.
This video almost completely ignores the spin of most (not all) bullets. Most pistols and rifles and a few shotguns are rifled. The induced spin will almost certainly be retained and the bullet won't tumble as described. The spin is considerable, in a rifle, the spin is something like 1/4 turn in the length of the barrel. How long does it take to travel 4 barrel lengths? Not long ---3000 fps divided by 3 feet 1/1000 of a second, so 1 turn in 1/250 of a second and that comes to something like 15k rpms, so yes, the bullet will likely be warm from friction of being forced through the rifling and the spin will burn your hand even if the bullet has cooled. 15k rpm's is similar to the mid range of a Dremel tool.
@@peroh3408 Initial thought is that it would be an impossible feat, but actually, upon further consideration it might actually be doable. You would have to know the bullet muzzle velocity very carefully. You would have to know the gondola altitude very precisely. You would have to have a bullet proof gondola floor, just in case. You would have to have a very accurate scope on the gun. You would need insulated gloves, just in case the bullet is hot. Last but not least you would need a very skilled catcher with excellent eyesight and reflexes.
So right! I had only seen this warning posted once in my life and that was years ago. People don't realize it but firing bullets into the air can have fatal consequences. This is because of the wise, old saying: what goes up, must come down⚠️
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.
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)
I think the difference in deathrate between shootings and falling bullets can also, atleast partially, be explained by the fact that after a shooting there usually will be police and medics around shortly after, while a falling bullet could strike you without someone noticing for a while, greatly increasing your chance of death
I was also thinking that the number of deaths in Afghanistan was partly contributed by a lack of medical staff. I’m uncertain if there are a lot of hospitals in Afghanistan but that’s coming from an American who only hears about the country with reference to its poverty.
Your video is essentially correct, except for one thing: When fired, a bullet will spin around its longitudinal axis. For a 9mm Para round, this is about 100.000 RPM. This spin is not appreciably decreased by drag. A bullet is stabilized by this spin during the way up, and on the way down. Therefore a bullet fired vertically in the air will not start to tumble, but come down base first. The drag on the flat base is higher than on the pointy end, therefore the terminal velocity is lower. But as you rightly mention, it can still be lethal. When fired at other than 90 degrees, the bullet will follow a normal parabolic arch, coming back to Earth nose-first. This is even worse, ofcourse....
I was once outside my grandparents' house while hanging clothes in the washing machine. My grandfather was sitting in the middle of the patio, I must say that the patio was almost entirely covered. Suddenly we heard a sound of something exploding, we were reviewing what had happened until my grandfather realized that a bullet had fallen only 5cm from the chair where he was sitting. In case he had injured him, the bullet had entered his left knee. In another case, I remember that my grandmother told me that she was here in the city during the "Caracazo", a protest in Venezuela where many people died, most of them due to stray bullets. She even told me that one day she was outside on the same patio, washing clothes by hand. And when she reached down to grab the clothes a bullet passed over her head and hit some plants behind her. She knew it because the soil of the plant fell on top of her.
I have actually seen car roofs, hoods, and trunk lids with bullet holes in them. It takes quite a bit of force to go clear through a steel car body. Although modern car bodies are made out of something more akin to tin foil.
Many cylinder heads are made of the same metal as soda cans! 25% aluminum to make it look like metal. Learned that from a machine shop. I picked up one of the heads on a 5.7 Hemi. I could lift it with one finger easily. Flimsy crap make up today's vehicles.
On 4th of July one year, I could hear them cutting down through the trees I was under and one hit the sheet metal porch and left a dent. Couldn't tell where it came from because it seemed like half the town lit-up at dark. There were fireworks too.
I still remember the pool of blood covering nearly two meters of the street near my home in 2007 in Iraq, a boy was hit with a random falling bullet after the Asia Football Cup victory, sadly he didn't make it.
we had the case years ago here in germany . there shot a sergeant of the army on the firing range forbidden way in the air with 7.62mm . next door in the forest was a kindergarten group on the way. the falling bullet shredded a child's hand !
@@lexa2310 According to some newspapers, that happened 5th of October, 2004, in a forest close to Giesen, Lower Saxony, and 600m away from an army shooting range.
At that Kent state episode, the soldiers were ordered to fire on the approaching crowd. A few of the soldiers could not fire on a human being so they pointed their rifles above the crowd and fired. They wanted to just warn them. This resulted in two people who had nothing to do with debacle, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, being killed by a stray bullet.
I'm glad you said it's still dangerous. A year ago, I saw a guy shoot a 50 cal, took 2 minutes to come back, but he heard (we heard it too) whirling sound like a helicopter right before impact and it made a huge explosion sound. This was in the desert.
@@andrewsauer9669 It's more likely that the people have fired off celebratory bullets all their lives with no one they knew of ever getting hurt, so they assume it's completely harmless.
There was a case in my country where man was killed while having sex with a woman in a bedroom. Woman was cheating her husband with the victim so police first thought it was angry husband. But the evidence and trajectory of bullet was puzzling, since the guy was shot in the ass through the window. It turned out that in the village about mile away, retired army officer was cleaning his gun and fired a shot in the air. Falling bullet went through the window of the bedroom of lovers and killed the guy while he was on woman. True story, it was on national tv show about murder cases.
It's amazing so many people are injured or killed by falling bullets, given the small % of the bullets possible landing area one person occupies. That shows the ridiculous number of bullets shot into the air. I lived in a home that had a small (probably .22) hole in one of the windows, and just a small crack radiating out of it. Amazing it didn't shatter the glass.
Firing into the air is almost (Well, maybe not "almost.") as dangerous as texting while driving. I have first-hand (but minor) experience with a falling bullet: a leaky roof. The bullet did not completely penetrate the roof, but it did enough damage to cause a leak. BTW: If not for air bags & headrests, I would have been killed by a member of one of the dumbest classes of people ever to roam Earth: a texting driver.
@@discgolfdetails9889 I AGREE!! I got rear-ended at about 40-45 by a texting moron while stopped in line at a RR crossing, bars down, redlights flashing, bells ringing. (I used to hate head rests... Not anymore!!) But, hey... I found out my air bags work! :)
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I was shot this way as a child with a shotgun. The men firing the guns were about 100 metres away from where I was stood. They were firing at pheasants that tend to fly straight up when flushed out of hiding. The pellets from the guns were falling around me and they hurt a lot. Had I been looking up I would have probably been blinded.
@@highmaxedoutlife6285Very luckily, I was stood within a few metres of an open garage door so I could quickly escape. I still remember it to this day 50 years later. If I had looked up I probably would have been blinded for life at age 8.
There was a case in Johannesburg during the 1980's (IIRC) where a man in a stadium died from being hit by a pistol bullet fired a few hundred meters away from an apartment balcony. It's not an uncommon occurrence in Iraq today as well. The key thing being that the bullets remain potentially deadly when fired in an arc instead of perfectly vertical. There's good reason for why most countries have laws against discharging firearms in build up areas without valid reason.
I was an architect on a new urban high school campus in California. Nice facilities, community pride, all the modern bells & whistles, including solar panels on the roof. Even before the ribbon cutting, there were already several bullet holes in the rooftop panels. The bullets got thru the tempered glazing, and were embedded in the aluminum body of the panels. I don't know what caliber, but if it doesn't kill you outright, it's sure going to leave a mark...
Machine gunners are actually taught how to use this to their advantage in order to fire over hills or into defilade in order to hit their targets, called plunging fire.
Unfortunately it happens quite often in the island of Crete - the southest of Greek Islands. They have the custom of "balothia" (basically a celebration during festive events such weddings etc where they shoot with rifles into the air) and there are accidents or deaths of people being hit with fallen bullets from those "balothia" in nearby villages and areas.
My Mom once found a .22 bullet lodged in the roof of her car on July 5th. It pierced the outer layer of metal and lodged in the padding between layers. It easily could have severely injured someone.
That had to be a straight shot. A .22 fired point blank into a car roof would do the same thing. I shot one at a washing machine once and it penetrated one layer of sheet metal and then stopped.
I would have guessed the opposite because in the video with the penny dropped off the tallest building, if that hit someone, nothing would have happened. I guess bullets weigh more and have a different shape causing it to be deadly. If I'm wrong, please correct me
The likely teminal velocity of a penny would only be about 20 or 30 mph. Less if buffeting winds are involved. Uncomfortable but not likely to be injurious unless a person just happened to look up and have it directly hit their eye.
@@remizu2901 Can you prove it? Your reply is dumb in it's single word without conjecture or discussion. My statement was: 'It is considered'. I did not state that it was true or fact. Can you prove that it has never been considered to be possible or not? I can prove that it has been considered. Can you prove that it has not?
I remember read in the news a few months back that, one day when rioters broke into a clothing shop the security guard serving there shot his gun at the ceiling to try to get everyone to "calm down"... This bullet then reflected when it hit the ceiling and instantly killed a innocent young 17/18 year old male that happened to be in the shop...I don't know why anyone could think that would be a good idea, I mean things dont work the same in movies as they do IRL...
I knew a guy who had a bullet come thru a section of their roof and penetrate their heater in the attic and cause it to stop working. They found bullet shot thru an electrical panel. This was on new years when people typically shoot guns into the air
This was something I have honestly wondered since I was a kid and saw a movie where people did that. My immediate reaction was "but if they shoot straight up they'll hit themselves!", I never did search it up though, but whenever I would see something of the sorts, I would think to myself "I wonder if the bullets do come back down, and whether they would have enough speed if they did so to be dangerous" This video answered a question I first thought of at ~8 years old, and like many in the comments have already said, it is as dangerous as I expected it to be.
Wow, this editing was flawless. Gotta check this channel out. Here in Germany, guns are heavily restricted and certainly fully prohibited to be used in any public space. Still, people like to go absolutely bonkers at Turkish weddings, and people were recorded firing guns there. Even if only blanks, when they get caught, they will have to fave serious penalties over this. Weapon laws are really serious here. Even if you were just walking the streets with a strip of wood from a fence, it can count as a weapon, if you are using it for any aggressive acts. At least afterwards, it at least doesn't fall into the area of being illegal to have in the first place, like a firearm would.
Quote: " Even if you were just walking the streets with a strip of wood from a fence, it can count as a weapon, if you are using it for any aggressive acts." Given these incidents, those laws seem to do little to deter mass killers. If anything, the number killed seems to run higher in Germany than in the U.S., where someone armed is often on the scene in seconds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_Germany#2020s
@@Inkling777 that is absolute bullshit. Look at the lists for the US. Posting a link to a 2020s list alone one cannot other than assume you are deliberately trying to lie and mislead people. It's not even true for the 2020s, but anyway just 3 years is not enough for a viable statistical comparison, also there is no consistent definition of "mass shooting", and so on. If you compare the numbers for the last decades, there are several times over more people killed and injured through gun violence in the US, than in Germany, of course based on the population. Also, "someone armed" is no help at the scene at all, what is needed is someone armed who does know what they're doing. Do you think Germany has no security forces ready for instant deploy? Just recently in the US forces waited for one and half our at Uvalde before they intervened, now that's what I would call "someone armed is often at the scene in seconds", only to no avail. Fact is, gun violence is several times less likely in Germany than in the US.
As a teen, I visited a friend in a mobile home, and a falling bullet went through the wall and landed on the carpet in front of the TV, only a few feet from where we sat.
A friend of mine was walking out the door in the morning and saw his neighbor fall to the ground. She was dead from a falling bullet. My part of town has the highest number of house strikes in Wake Co. As someone below posted, stay inside new years, 4th july and hispanic holidays. Geo Bush's , 1 st one, inaugural parade a bullet came down a few feet away, rains bullets there too.
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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…
Wtf is a helicopter guy
Wtf is a Eugene
Wtf is Fozzy
HELIKOPTER HELIKOPTER
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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Wow
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.
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.
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
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 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
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..
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 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
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
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??
In Germany, you have to obtain a certificate of competence in order to get a firearms license. In the associated course we had learned how dangerous falling projectiles can be. Even those from handguns. A number I made a note of: a 9 mm Parabellum falling vertically can deliver 70 joules of energy at the target. That doesn't sound like much, but it's almost equivalent to the muzzle energy of a 6.35mm Browning caliber cartridge. Lethal.
In germany you can't flip off a cop
@@rickybungalow8839in Germany you can’t shoot your cops or a school.
Also you can’t flip off a cop here in USA ‘cause they’ll pull you over and use qualified immunity as excuse for violating your rights.
It took a course? Didn't the thousand bomber raid give an inkling about falling projectiles?
Ya and your country sucks now
@@rickybungalow8839fr?
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.
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 👍
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
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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When I was young I was struck in the head by a falling bullet and unfortunately died. I now roam the internet warning people of this danger in the comments section.
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!
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.
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.
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’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.
Thanks for this informative video. I need to send it to some of my neighbors that think it's OK to shoot branches out of trees. I've always been told (but always questioned) that the velocity of the falling bullet would reach the muzzle velocity upon impact. I always felt that there must be a terminal velocity for falling bullets that was much less than the muzzle velocity. Thanks for clarifying this!
It's safe with shotguns, which work best for shooting down branches anyway.
@timewave02012 just use the saw. Stop being an idiot.
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...
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.
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.
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.
No it can’t
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.
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 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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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!
YOU are accountable for EVERY round that leaves YOUR gun.
Seriously
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 😂
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.
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.
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?
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 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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I know of a case where a kid playing outside climbing a wall suddenly fell while his parents were having a BBQ on new years. turned out a bullet that someone shot in the air came down and hit the kid in the head killing him.
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
I'm a paramedic and this happened on new years. A lady was sitting down on her lawn chair and felt a sharp pain in her leg. It does happen
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".
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For me as a German with strict gun laws,
it's unbelievable to think that uncontrolled shooting into the air in public places was legal...
Like WTF, use your brain?
As a German, you had strict gun laws in the 30s and 40s, too. Lot of good those gun laws did for your personal safety, eh?
@@demef758 Me looking for a Pro-Gun argument in Germany (or anywhere) while not hearing the Argument of WW2 be like 👁👄👁
Honestly, as a German, everytime someone brings that shit up now i'm just gonna be like "Oh yeah, personally i also did that myself" just to make them feel dumb af
I don't believe gun laws would have helped a situation like nazi Germany, if anything, caused more death.
@@demef758 so u think the population wouldve armed themselves against the Nazi regime? Are u aware that this "regime" was in a legitimately elected political coalition and had widespread support of said population? ur a naive clown to think that an armed civilian population wouldve changed much. They had a person cult much like the Trump person cult.. very similar.. even the overbearing patriotism and nationalism and reverence for police and police brutality. Seems like history is bound to repeat itself because of brain amputated clowns like u, who know nothing but spread misinformation to remove gun restrictions. Jan 6 was the beer hall putsch. This story will likely continue if ur orange master stays in politics, bootlicker
Rather ironic statement. You have so many rules so you don't have to use your brain. Do as you are told; smarter people have figured it all out for you.
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.
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.
I've seen Texas home inspectors showing bullets lodged in roofs deep enough it could easily penetrate a skull. Falling bullets are definitely dangerous.
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
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.
@@isuckaspresident.dementiajoe 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.
In Nevada USA . Randomly firing a gun has been illegal since the 1800s. Specifically llegal to shoot out houses as well. 😮
"We need to call the cops!"
*Shot gun to the sky*
"Already on their way"
*A moment later a cop arrived only to die from a stray vertical bullet*
Yes
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
A friend of mine when we lived in South Africa was standing outside in the garden one New Year's Eve. Their 9 year old son fell over stone dead. Someone in their neighbourhood shot a bullet into the air and the young lad was killed.
Sad. It felt weird to upvote the terrible story. Gun fruits are a tiresome lot of pickle kissers.
@@Greg-io1ip holy reddit comment batman
The weird thing to think about is that for a bullet fired straight up, if you happened to be floating in a balloon gondola right next to the zenith of its flight, you could basically reach out and grab it, though it might still be hot. Imagine a bullet reaching you about as fast as someone lobbing it upward and then momentarily stopping before it fell.
also weird to think that grabbing it could save a life. you could literally catch a bullet for someone.
That's some X-Men shit
Someone has to do this
This video almost completely ignores the spin of most (not all) bullets. Most pistols and rifles and a few shotguns are rifled. The induced spin will almost certainly be retained and the bullet won't tumble as described. The spin is considerable, in a rifle, the spin is something like 1/4 turn in the length of the barrel. How long does it take to travel 4 barrel lengths? Not long ---3000 fps divided by 3 feet 1/1000 of a second, so 1 turn in 1/250 of a second and that comes to something like 15k rpms, so yes, the bullet will likely be warm from friction of being forced through the rifling and the spin will burn your hand even if the bullet has cooled. 15k rpm's is similar to the mid range of a Dremel tool.
@@peroh3408 Initial thought is that it would be an impossible feat, but actually, upon further consideration it might actually be doable. You would have to know the bullet muzzle velocity very carefully. You would have to know the gondola altitude very precisely. You would have to have a bullet proof gondola floor, just in case. You would have to have a very accurate scope on the gun. You would need insulated gloves, just in case the bullet is hot. Last but not least you would need a very skilled catcher with excellent eyesight and reflexes.
So right! I had only seen this warning posted once in my life and that was years ago. People don't realize it but firing bullets into the air can have fatal consequences. This is because of the wise, old saying: what goes up, must come down⚠️
Mythbusters came up with a different conclusion.
Maybe they stretched the truth Idk because “television” “entertainment”
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.
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)
I think the difference in deathrate between shootings and falling bullets can also, atleast partially, be explained by the fact that after a shooting there usually will be police and medics around shortly after, while a falling bullet could strike you without someone noticing for a while, greatly increasing your chance of death
And the doctors only see the victims who make it to the hospital in the first place
I was also thinking that the number of deaths in Afghanistan was partly contributed by a lack of medical staff. I’m uncertain if there are a lot of hospitals in Afghanistan but that’s coming from an American who only hears about the country with reference to its poverty.
@DrBadmind Very valid point!
Having the bullet be more likely to hit the brain probably helps too :(
And also, you may want to injure your enemy, without killing him.
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Your video is essentially correct, except for one thing: When fired, a bullet will spin around its longitudinal axis. For a 9mm Para round, this is about 100.000 RPM. This spin is not appreciably decreased by drag. A bullet is stabilized by this spin during the way up, and on the way down. Therefore a bullet fired vertically in the air will not start to tumble, but come down base first. The drag on the flat base is higher than on the pointy end, therefore the terminal velocity is lower. But as you rightly mention, it can still be lethal.
When fired at other than 90 degrees, the bullet will follow a normal parabolic arch, coming back to Earth nose-first. This is even worse, ofcourse....
BS.
I was once outside my grandparents' house while hanging clothes in the washing machine. My grandfather was sitting in the middle of the patio, I must say that the patio was almost entirely covered. Suddenly we heard a sound of something exploding, we were reviewing what had happened until my grandfather realized that a bullet had fallen only 5cm from the chair where he was sitting. In case he had injured him, the bullet had entered his left knee.
In another case, I remember that my grandmother told me that she was here in the city during the "Caracazo", a protest in Venezuela where many people died, most of them due to stray bullets. She even told me that one day she was outside on the same patio, washing clothes by hand. And when she reached down to grab the clothes a bullet passed over her head and hit some plants behind her. She knew it because the soil of the plant fell on top of her.
“Shooo go away cow!”
Moral of story: STOP washing clothes on patios!!!!
I have actually seen car roofs, hoods, and trunk lids with bullet holes in them. It takes quite a bit of force to go clear through a steel car body. Although modern car bodies are made out of something more akin to tin foil.
The last part is just a bruh moment 💀
Many cylinder heads are made of the same metal as soda cans! 25% aluminum to make it look like metal. Learned that from a machine shop. I picked up one of the heads on a 5.7 Hemi. I could lift it with one finger easily. Flimsy crap make up today's vehicles.
It could have been those cheap dollar store stickers, that resembles a bullet hole 😁
@@tiborpurzsas2136 You can't stick a screwdriver through a sticker. Not to mention several cars like that came into the shop shortly after New Years.
@@rw7594 Keep up your medication dude...
On 4th of July one year, I could hear them cutting down through the trees I was under and one hit the sheet metal porch and left a dent. Couldn't tell where it came from because it seemed like half the town lit-up at dark. There were fireworks too.
I still remember the pool of blood covering nearly two meters of the street near my home in 2007 in Iraq, a boy was hit with a random falling bullet after the Asia Football Cup victory, sadly he didn't make it.
we had the case years ago here in germany . there shot a sergeant of the army on the firing range forbidden way in the air with 7.62mm . next door in the forest was a kindergarten group on the way. the falling bullet shredded a child's hand !
Do you have a link to the source? I wanna know where in Germany that happened and who did something so stupid.
@@lexa2310 i search a litte for a link
I'm waiting....
@@lexa2310 According to some newspapers, that happened 5th of October, 2004, in a forest close to Giesen, Lower Saxony, and 600m away from an army shooting range.
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All my answers getting deleted.
At that Kent state episode, the soldiers were ordered to fire on the approaching crowd.
A few of the soldiers could not fire on a human being so they pointed their rifles above the crowd and fired. They wanted to just warn them.
This resulted in two people who had nothing to do with debacle, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, being killed by a stray bullet.
I'm glad you said it's still dangerous. A year ago, I saw a guy shoot a 50 cal, took 2 minutes to come back, but he heard (we heard it too) whirling sound like a helicopter right before impact and it made a huge explosion sound. This was in the desert.
hahahaha. explosion sound! Duh. You are part of the disinformation.
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this is what led to shannon"s law it was named after a teen who was killed by a stray bullet in 1999.
He'd have to shoot up at a near perfect perpendicular angle for that bullet to land anywhere near where it was fired from
@@aktivepyro614 yeah that's the one. Was going from memory. Thnx Pyro 👍
I've been worried about falling bullets all my life, and everyone else always shrugged it off as harmless. Thank you, I feel less stupid now!
People don't like the fact that it's possible to die randomly with no warning so they deny it.
What a wussy. I've worried about a lot of things, but falling bullets? Never.
I was never worried for my own sake. Whenever I saw people shooting up into the air, I'd be worried it might land on someone or something.
@@JimmyLundberg I wondered why you wore that tin hat.
@@andrewsauer9669 It's more likely that the people have fired off celebratory bullets all their lives with no one they knew of ever getting hurt, so they assume it's completely harmless.
There was a case in my country where man was killed while having sex with a woman in a bedroom. Woman was cheating her husband with the victim so police first thought it was angry husband. But the evidence and trajectory of bullet was puzzling, since the guy was shot in the ass through the window. It turned out that in the village about mile away, retired army officer was cleaning his gun and fired a shot in the air. Falling bullet went through the window of the bedroom of lovers and killed the guy while he was on woman. True story, it was on national tv show about murder cases.
He died from a shot to the ass?
@@Bmxicano2 Yeah, beleive it or not. I guess it missed both but cheeks and went straight in.
@@galeb73970 lol
What movie is this?
Hahahah
True story yes, I also remember that...
It's amazing so many people are injured or killed by falling bullets, given the small % of the bullets possible landing area one person occupies. That shows the ridiculous number of bullets shot into the air. I lived in a home that had a small (probably .22) hole in one of the windows, and just a small crack radiating out of it. Amazing it didn't shatter the glass.
Firing into the air is almost (Well, maybe not "almost.") as dangerous as texting while driving. I have first-hand (but minor) experience with a falling bullet: a leaky roof. The bullet did not completely penetrate the roof, but it did enough damage to cause a leak.
BTW: If not for air bags & headrests, I would have been killed by a member of one of the dumbest classes of people ever to roam Earth: a texting driver.
Complete bullshit story. your roof is falling off because it's rotting.
Texting is worse then drunk driving. My friend got hit at 60 MPH in the back and luckily survived.
@@discgolfdetails9889 I AGREE!!
I got rear-ended at about 40-45 by a texting moron while stopped in line at a RR crossing, bars down, redlights flashing, bells ringing. (I used to hate head rests... Not anymore!!) But, hey... I found out my air bags work! :)
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 RUclips: Why was my response to oatsao deleted??? It contained no profanities. (Not spelled out, anyway.) He can call me a liar, but I can't defend myself??!! That's pretty darned sorry of you. Was it "offensive"? Well, I'm deeply offended by his/hers/it's comment calling be a liar and implying my house is junk!! Furthermore, it contains profanity SPELLED OUT!! (Mine didn't.) Delete it, too!!
@@johnstorton no one cares
I was shot this way as a child with a shotgun. The men firing the guns were about 100 metres away from where I was stood. They were firing at pheasants that tend to fly straight up when flushed out of hiding. The pellets from the guns were falling around me and they hurt a lot. Had I been looking up I would have probably been blinded.
Bird shot pellets bouncing off you isnt really getting shot
@@highmaxedoutlife6285Very luckily, I was stood within a few metres of an open garage door so I could quickly escape. I still remember it to this day 50 years later. If I had looked up I probably would have been blinded for life at age 8.
So they were firing toward houses 100m away? Sounds like a bunch of smooth brains were hunting.
@@woodstream6137 Yes and actually just one house stood on its own. Our house.
Wouldn't hurt you a bit, I have been showered by birdshot countless times while dove hunting. Barely even feel it.
There was a case in Johannesburg during the 1980's (IIRC) where a man in a stadium died from being hit by a pistol bullet fired a few hundred meters away from an apartment balcony. It's not an uncommon occurrence in Iraq today as well. The key thing being that the bullets remain potentially deadly when fired in an arc instead of perfectly vertical. There's good reason for why most countries have laws against discharging firearms in build up areas without valid reason.
I was an architect on a new urban high school campus in California. Nice facilities, community pride, all the modern bells & whistles, including solar panels on the roof. Even before the ribbon cutting, there were already several bullet holes in the rooftop panels. The bullets got thru the tempered glazing, and were embedded in the aluminum body of the panels. I don't know what caliber, but if it doesn't kill you outright, it's sure going to leave a mark...
Machine gunners are actually taught how to use this to their advantage in order to fire over hills or into defilade in order to hit their targets, called plunging fire.
I wonder if they ever made special ammo for this, A heavier, more aerodynamic bullet would have a better effect
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Unfortunately it happens quite often in the island of Crete - the southest of Greek Islands. They have the custom of "balothia" (basically a celebration during festive events such weddings etc where they shoot with rifles into the air) and there are accidents or deaths of people being hit with fallen bullets from those "balothia" in nearby villages and areas.
easy fix: use blank rounds
My Mom once found a .22 bullet lodged in the roof of her car on July 5th. It pierced the outer layer of metal and lodged in the padding between layers. It easily could have severely injured someone.
That had to be a straight shot. A .22 fired point blank into a car roof would do the same thing. I shot one at a washing machine once and it penetrated one layer of sheet metal and then stopped.
@@LarsLarsen77 depends on the type of 22 ar-15s shoot 22 size bullets there’s also the 22 hornet ect. He didn’t specify
I would have guessed the opposite because in the video with the penny dropped off the tallest building, if that hit someone, nothing would have happened. I guess bullets weigh more and have a different shape causing it to be deadly.
If I'm wrong, please correct me
Yes, the coin is flat and less aerodinamical
It is considered that if a penny was dropped from the top of the Empire State building it would crack the pavement /sidewalk.
The likely teminal velocity of a penny would only be about 20 or 30 mph. Less if buffeting winds are involved. Uncomfortable but not likely to be injurious unless a person just happened to look up and have it directly hit their eye.
@@jeh1333 nope.
@@remizu2901 Can you prove it?
Your reply is dumb in it's single word without conjecture or discussion.
My statement was: 'It is considered'. I did not state that it was true or fact.
Can you prove that it has never been considered to be possible or not?
I can prove that it has been considered. Can you prove that it has not?
I remember read in the news a few months back that, one day when rioters broke into a clothing shop the security guard serving there shot his gun at the ceiling to try to get everyone to "calm down"... This bullet then reflected when it hit the ceiling and instantly killed a innocent young 17/18 year old male that happened to be in the shop...I don't know why anyone could think that would be a good idea, I mean things dont work the same in movies as they do IRL...
The word is ricocheted.
@@neildouglas2293, thanks🙈... I'm not changing it though
I knew a guy who had a bullet come thru a section of their roof and penetrate their heater in the attic and cause it to stop working. They found bullet shot thru an electrical panel. This was on new years when people typically shoot guns into the air
7:10 they were just drunk and shot the plane on purpuse I think.
This was something I have honestly wondered since I was a kid and saw a movie where people did that. My immediate reaction was "but if they shoot straight up they'll hit themselves!", I never did search it up though, but whenever I would see something of the sorts, I would think to myself "I wonder if the bullets do come back down, and whether they would have enough speed if they did so to be dangerous" This video answered a question I first thought of at ~8 years old, and like many in the comments have already said, it is as dangerous as I expected it to be.
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Here in Germany, guns are heavily restricted and certainly fully prohibited to be used in any public space. Still, people like to go absolutely bonkers at Turkish weddings, and people were recorded firing guns there. Even if only blanks, when they get caught, they will have to fave serious penalties over this. Weapon laws are really serious here. Even if you were just walking the streets with a strip of wood from a fence, it can count as a weapon, if you are using it for any aggressive acts. At least afterwards, it at least doesn't fall into the area of being illegal to have in the first place, like a firearm would.
Quote: " Even if you were just walking the streets with a strip of wood from a fence, it can count as a weapon, if you are using it for any aggressive acts." Given these incidents, those laws seem to do little to deter mass killers. If anything, the number killed seems to run higher in Germany than in the U.S., where someone armed is often on the scene in seconds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_Germany#2020s
@@Inkling777 that is absolute bullshit. Look at the lists for the US. Posting a link to a 2020s list alone one cannot other than assume you are deliberately trying to lie and mislead people. It's not even true for the 2020s, but anyway just 3 years is not enough for a viable statistical comparison, also there is no consistent definition of "mass shooting", and so on. If you compare the numbers for the last decades, there are several times over more people killed and injured through gun violence in the US, than in Germany, of course based on the population.
Also, "someone armed" is no help at the scene at all, what is needed is someone armed who does know what they're doing. Do you think Germany has no security forces ready for instant deploy? Just recently in the US forces waited for one and half our at Uvalde before they intervened, now that's what I would call "someone armed is often at the scene in seconds", only to no avail.
Fact is, gun violence is several times less likely in Germany than in the US.
At midnight 2011 new year’s eve a 15 year old girl was struck by a stray bullet in Puerto Rico. She eventually died after spending time in coma.
As a teen, I visited a friend in a mobile home, and a falling bullet went through the wall and landed on the carpet in front of the TV, only a few feet from where we sat.
A friend of mine was walking out the door in the morning and saw his neighbor fall to the ground. She was dead from a falling bullet. My part of town has the highest number of house strikes in Wake Co. As someone below posted, stay inside new years, 4th july and hispanic holidays. Geo Bush's , 1 st one, inaugural parade a bullet came down a few feet away, rains bullets there too.
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