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Shots fired... into the air on the 4th

Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/2-month-old-baby-grazed-by-fourth-of-july-celebratory-gunfire-bullet-police-say

SMDH
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WOW !!!
    Lucky people!!

    {must have been 9mm's fired from glocks}

    ;):D:D:D
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can?t fire your gun in the air and expect the bullet not to land somewhere," she explained.


    Truer words were never spoken ;)
    RLTW

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,527 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    2nd bullet less than 5 miles away... trajectory..wind speed good luck finding the shooter.
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  • neacpaneacpa Member Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The second incident says it went through a roof and a ceiling landing in the living room. A bullet simply falling from the sky going through a roof and ceiling? Dang, how big was that thing?

    Someone may have been shooting at them from above.
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To put it basically, a bullet will fall to ground level at about 300fps.
    Depending on bullet shape, about 200 fps is needed to go thru your skin.
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  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    often difficult for investigators to determine where the gun was fired, how long the bullet traveled and who was behind the trigger. ?Even worse, most of the victims have no idea it?s coming when it hits,? Yolanda Fernandez, St. Petersburg Police Department's spokesperson explained.

    It seems like there are two totally different thoughts there.
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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  • 320090T320090T Member Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Almost every trailer in our park has a bullet hole or three patched up in it and several have slugs lodged in the carport roofs left there as conversation pieces. There are lots of people of color living down the street.
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back in the early 80s, there was a section 8 apartment complex across the highway from where I worked. One night the boiler operator called the maintenance office saying someone was shooting the wall and roll up door at the boiler house. Turns out he was right! They stopped shooting when the cops showed up. When I retired from there in 2012, some of the bullets were still embedded in the metal.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have two holes in the steel carport roof. One .45 and one looks to be 9mm/38. Neither hit a vehicle. I always want to get on the roof and shoot back with the 7mm mag.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    Shooting for celebrations has been going on since the middle ages! Remember that old expression: "I shot an arrow into the air. Where it lands I know not where!" :o

    Seems like every western TV show or movie ever made has the scenes where the cowboys come into town to blow off steam!

    I'm certainly not condoning this activity with live ammo! Blank loads make just as much noise and the fun remains fun!
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The courthouse in an adjoining county took a couple of bullets a while back. Broke a window and bullets lodged in the wall of a vacant office. Investigation revealed a broken window in an apartment in a building directly across the street. Seems the dummy fired not one but two "accidental discharges" while "cleaning" his 9mm. Oddly, no one noticed the gunfire and the incident was not discovered for nearly 2 weeks. The dummy didn't even try to fix his apartment window.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just another day in S.St Pete
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    babun wrote:
    WOW !!!
    Lucky people!!

    {must have been 9mm's fired from glocks}

    ;):D:D:D

    40 short and wimpy would be my guess.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    in 30+ years i have had my 54'x70'x14' shop i have never had a hole till last year when about 2/3s way up on one of the peaked roof panels was a hole ...got the bucket truck out and got me up there and aimed an LED flashlight down thru it trying to estimate where it would have hit the concrete by the way the three metal of metal were broken down around the hole whfel wife maked my best guess on the concrete ....missed vehicles and tractors by a ways but could never find any mark or spent bullet ???
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Baltimore has experienced 1-2 deaths a year from celebratory gunfire. Not uncommon in any of the Dem controlled cities. It will kill you if a spent bullet hits you in the head.

    Neal
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this 4th of July was very strange. didn't hear any guns at all. not one. the Chef of Police said they were going to crack down on fireworks, people didn't cut back on those but they forgot all about popping off caps into the air.
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,277 ******
    edited November -1
    My dad had an old Colt 1911 U.S. Navy. Every year on New Years Eve he would take it out at midnight and shoot it up in the air one time. One time only. Even as a kid, I would wonder ?where does the bullet come down??
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