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Stroke of midnight....shoot your guns in the air?
Rembrandt
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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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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?
Go early, stay in, leave tomorrow. The demons are out tonight!
OUCH
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Grumpy Old Man
Don't Feed the Trolls
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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.
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.
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.
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-Thomas Jefferson
I think it was in LA. That is how a lot of hispanic's celebrate.
The NRA is on our side!
Hate that physics stuff!
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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Michael
Paranoid keeps you alive, worry just gives you stomach problems.Politics- From the words poly, meaning many, and tics, which are just little blood suckers.
If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress?
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
John in PA
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Until I looked at your profile I thought you lived and were talking about Phoenix,AZ. I agree with you, same problem here.
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-Thomas Jefferson
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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Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
It fell to earth I know just where
Though aimed at a buck who stood afar
It pierced the radiator on my car.[:(]
Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
If you hurt someone, Attempted Murder Charge. What an Insentive to do that. Hmmmm[:0]
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The gene pool needs chlorine.
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3 rounds of bird shot
into a swamp cabbage tree.
Don`t think I hit any vitals.[V]
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Mobuck
"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.
the firing here went on till about 3am.[:D]
barto
the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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
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.
"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
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T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
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