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Stroke of midnight....shoot your guns in the air?

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited December 2002 in General Discussion
I've noticed in some countries people fire guns in the air to bring in the "New Year".....gotta be a little rough all those bullets coming back down. [:)]
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    RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    they come down?

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
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    interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Not too safe less ya live out in them there boonies.[:D]

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    ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    there was a girl here in erie, that got hit by a bullet that came down from the sky on new years i think it was. She got hit in the top of her head, she did live though.

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    outdoortexasoutdoortexas Member Posts: 4,780
    edited November -1
    Anybody else see it on the news last night?

    I just caught the end of it, but I'm sure I heard them say "23,000 rounds fired in one city last New Years"!

    Had to be DC or Chicago?
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    spinyspiny Member Posts: 3,117
    edited November -1
    Just one of the reasons it's called 'Amateur Night'
    Go early, stay in, leave tomorrow. The demons are out tonight!
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    Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ruger270man, I can't help but notice that your rifle fires multiple rounds pretty rapidly for a bolt-action! And it never runs out of ammo, like John Wayne's rifles in old war movies line Sands of Iwo Jima.
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    n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I shot a bullet into the air,, It will fall, but, I know not where::

    OUCH

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    22WRF22WRF Member Posts: 3,385
    edited November -1
    Couple years ago on New years Day I found 3 bullets, .380 or 9mm in my driveway.

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    HAPPY NEW YEAR
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    rldowns3rldowns3 Member Posts: 6,096
    edited November -1
    There was a girl in Phoenix, Arizona that was killed by somebody shooting a gun into the air a few years back. She was struck in the top of the head. She now has a law named after her (although I forget her name) but it basically states that anybody caught discharging a firearm into the air within populated areas (? I think it says populated areas or city limits) will be fined and jailed and firearms confiscated.

    Either way, don't fire your guns in the air on New Years if you live in a town/city. Those bullets do come down and where they land is anybodies guess. But if you still feel the need to join the fun, buy blanks.
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    IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do this most years, but use shotshells. Plenty loud enough and fired in the field in the back, only way a person could be hit was if they were trespassing. Probably not this year, though - She Who Must Be Obeyed just called to say we should go to some city to see the New Year in with a big crowd of people! [8][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!] I'd rather . . . never mind, nunn would poof it.
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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,958 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have taken .22 slugs out of my shingles and shot cups off my yard. Morons in my area do a lot of shooting into the air. Midnight sounds like Lake City testing range. Damn dumb!
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    4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Get your shotgun out, empty the shot out of a round and shoot it off. My dad used to do that. Personally, tonight will be spent at home, with my family watching the festivities on TV. Heck, I might even get fancy and buy the wife one of them boxes of wine and try to get her innebriated. After the ball drops its kids to bed and time to bring in the new year with a BANG! (With the shotgun of course).[:D]
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    rpo242rpo242 Member Posts: 570 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live in the country. About five years ago I was in my back yard
    celebrating with fireworks and some idiot up the hill about a quarter mile away shot twice with a rifle. The bullets came down
    in my back yard about fifty feet from me. They sure rattled through
    the tree branches.[:(!]

    You can't miss fast enough.
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    terrible4sterrible4s Member Posts: 425 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rldowns3,
    The girls name was Shannon thus the law being Shannon's Law. It is a class 6 felony to fire a gun within the city limits within a mile of an occupied structure.
    Here in Phoenix it is a major problem.



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    dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Jerry,

    I think it was in LA. That is how a lot of hispanic's celebrate.

    The NRA is on our side!
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    spinyspiny Member Posts: 3,117
    edited November -1
    What goes up, must come down. I believe that is called 'terminal velocity' something like 32feet/per second/per second if memory serves.
    Hate that physics stuff!
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    nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,013 ******
    edited November -1
    About a million years ago, I used to load trucks with a bunch of black guys who lived in south Dallas. They told me that was considered the thing to do on New Year's. At midnight, everybody runs outside, shoots their guns in the air, then runs back in before any cops show up.

    I thought it was stupid then and it is still stupid. When I fire a gun, I know where the bullet is going to end up.

    I do wish I had the PD Tommy gun here. Not for firing in the air, of course, but a few mags full into the pond bank at midnight might be real fitting.

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    Supreme OneSupreme One Member Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello, spiny it is 9.8 meters per second, per second. Not sure if meters or feet is more accurate but this is what we learned. Doesn't sound like much until you do the math. Might not kill you but sure wouldn't make your day.

    Michael

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    capecodcapecod Member Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Firing guns into the air (and into houses, cars, animals and other people) is a nightly celebration in the city I live near and not reserved for New Years. Its a wonderful feeling to see so many immigrants (legal and illegal) celebrating life in the good ole' USA and turning what used to be a clean & peaceful city into a litter strewn war zone decaying before our very eyes. Economy-wise, drug sales are booming and welfare payments are on the rise.
    Am I bitter? No - just completely disgusted that we're allowing this to happen here and throughout our country - all in the name of being politically correct.
    My God, what will it be like for our children in a few years? I really hate to think about it.
    I'll get off my soapbox now and wish All Of The Forum Members a Happy and Healthy New Years.
    John


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    terrible4sterrible4s Member Posts: 425 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    capecod,
    Until I looked at your profile I thought you lived and were talking about Phoenix,AZ. I agree with you, same problem here.


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    RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here are a few questions for those people who shoot guns in populated areas;
    1. Do you know when the Fourth of July is?
    2. Do you know when the New Year is going to arrive?
    3. Do you know you can buy Blanks!?
    Not necessarily meant for members of this forum.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
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    William81William81 Member Posts: 24,599 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Every year some moron gets caught doing this in one of the small towns our office serves. They get arrested, placed on probation for a year and lose their gun.....They seem to forget that those bullets have to land somewhere.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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    rldowns3rldowns3 Member Posts: 6,096
    edited November -1
    terrible4s, yes, that's the one I was talkin about, thanks. [:D] I remember them enacting that law shortly before I left Phoenix, Az for the east coast.
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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,958 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shot an arrow into the air
    It fell to earth I know just where
    Though aimed at a buck who stood afar
    It pierced the radiator on my car.[:(]
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    William81William81 Member Posts: 24,599 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LOL HeDog....[:D]

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    FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dang I must live in the only town where they deploy extra LEO's Just for that reason. If you get cought $2200.00 fine, 5 Days in the can.
    If you hurt someone, Attempted Murder Charge. What an Insentive to do that. Hmmmm[:0]

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    pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never shot on in the air, but YEARS ago, when I would get a (little?) inebriated. A friend and I went outside with his new 10ga. We shot at a RTD sign across the street. It probably was not more than 30-40 feet away. Went back in the house. Next day inspected the sign and we had both totally missed it. That was the first and last time I was dumb enough to try shooting at anything drunk.


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    REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Think I'll shoot my ML up this year, cap and one pyrodex pellet, redneck fireworks! [:D] -Ralph

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    218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Sorry..I couldn`t wait.[8D]

    3 rounds of bird shot
    into a swamp cabbage tree.

    Don`t think I hit any vitals.[V]

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    MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 13,793 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think terminal velocity of an average projectile is around 400fps.

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    Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back in the stone age when I studied physics, I seem to remember something about the 32 feet per second per second thing. But it further stated "in a vacuum at sea level." Something to do with the law of velocity of falling objects.

    "The velocity of a falling object, in a vacuum at sea level, is 32 feet per second per second." Us highschool kids did an experiment and observed a ball bearing falling at the same rate as a feather.

    Rafter-S

    Edit: More is coming back to me now. Something about 16 feet the first second, then 32 feet per second per second thereafter.

    Will some Physics wizard please come to my rescue? I won't sleep tonight thinking about this.
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    VonflakVonflak Member Posts: 323 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always shoot mine into the air! Just not up.
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    LABWILDLABWILD Member Posts: 506 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not the safest thing to do. I grew up on the edge of a small Ky. town and it was a family traditions to shoot our Shotguns at the stroke of midnight. You could hear the town clock strike. The town has grown and I do not live there anymore.
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    bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i shot 4 mags over the ocean(1/4 mile away).
    the firing here went on till about 3am.[:D]
    barto

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    anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid growing up in Illinois, my dad used to step out the back door and shoot his 12 GA in the air at midnight each New Years Eve. He was a safe - read VERY SAFE - shooter/hunter/collector, but this was pretty much a yearly event. The kids loved it, and no one else seemed to mind. I'm not sure it was a very good idea.

    With all the gun registry problems in Canada right now, you can be sure that I will not be starting up this practice this year!

    In fact, some of our brothers are on Parliment Hill at this moment demonstrating against this billion dollar stupidity![:(!]

    Ken
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    AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The 32 feet per second is correct. However terminal velocity comes into play. The feather and the ball do not fall at the same speed, as their coeifficent of friction (mass vs. surface area) is very differant. A skydiver has a terminal velocity of about 120 mph. That means he is accelerating for about three seconds, then he reaches terminal velocity.
    The 100 fps sound right for a bullet.
    I have taken several reports where an expended round went through a mobile home roof and was found on the floor/bed/table. Then the residents have to patch the roof. New Years - Fourth of July, are the usual days. Pin heads firing rounds into the air.

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    offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anyone wishing to do this should make sure there's no wind, then be sure to shoot straight up, and stand very still. If they like the feeling when it comes back down, hey, "knock yourself out." [:D]


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    Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounded like a war zone here last night. Gunshots, fireworks and sounded like some homemade explosives going off. I stood on the back porch and watched the sky light up. Funny how fireworks are illegal in this state but 3 guys lastnight was setting off stuff that resembled professional fireworks.

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    kissgoodnightkissgoodnight Member Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know of one idiot who stepped to his back door at the New Year and emptied his shotgun streight up. His house went dark. Can you guess why?
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    LABWILDLABWILD Member Posts: 506 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wondered when someone would shoot the electric line down.
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