The Deadly Consequences Of Shooting in the Air 

That’s why I have a plasma rifle in the forty watt range. The arcs just dissipate in the stratosphere.

Unless your lawless enforcement and have qualified immunity

I was taught proper too, but by saying "they" you mean some good person who in turn learned him or herself gun safety above all and passed it on... Again, the people who do this sh*t aren't those "they" people, thats the problem.

always shoot down or into a backstop. We were always tought to never shoot into the air.

@@activatekruger446 The second I seen your comment, I could hear Arnold Schwarzennegger saying it.

How much does it cost the homeowner to fix a single bullet hole in their roof?

@@roosterqmoney At least $120.

Man you should publish a running tally for the people in your area. That's as real a wake up call as they're likely to get.

Yes I was surprised the first time I found a bullet the cause of a clients leaky roof. One reason I do not walk past the patio roof watching fireworks on new years eve.

Liar! Been roofing since I was 17 in northern Illinois and never have found a bullet in my life deformed or intact. We do complete tear offs,redecks the works...why are you lying? You're seeing damaged vents and little holes from hail and calling them bullets guaranteed or are just making up ish

That took a long time to come down!

Goofy

It still don't kill anyone...this is the 2nd time in all of history and the 2nd time in a horrible neighborhood(both are murders except they could find enough proof of where they were shot and had to take the people on sites word for it). This is no different then the women murdering their kids and getting off on SIDS deaths...without proof of fabric in the lungs,bruises etc they have to take the families word. Gun people are the worst...don't even know their own ish

Same dude i thought i was the only one

Not even just in the air..Friend here was shooting his 22 in the back yard at a steel target..He lives out in the country..A ricochet hits a driver going past his house in the head. Luckly the guy didnt die. But he sued the hell out of my friend and they took everything he owned. Be careful you never know

I actually asked a physics professor about this one time, when I was in college over a decade ago. The argument of "terminal velocity" only applies if a bullet is fired perfectly straight up, so that it has no horizontal component to its trajectory. In that scenario, the bullet travels straight up, it's motion stops entirely, and then it falls. In that case, it's terminal velocity would be the same as any other object dropped from a great height. The professor was very clear though, that if *any horizontal movement was part of the trajectory* then the bullet would still be lethal.

@@scottcantdance804 still comes down to responsibility with firearms no matter the physics

Even at "terminal velocity" a .30 caliber projectile will still fall fast enough to wreck somebody... But yeah, most are still fired at an angle, which makes the projectile FAR less likely to tumble as much, and retain speeds greater than @200mph. It's just dumb as hell to shoot into the air when there's no telling where the bullet falls.

EXACTLY! Well said. Thank you very much!

@@SaltyRagu7393 Right... But my point is that "terminal velocity" isn't even a valid argument, when people try to use that to say that this practice isn't dangerous. The terminal velocity argument can be debunked using science, but even beyond that, the fact that people get bullet holes in their car roofs and occasionally get killed by falling bullets debunks it.

yep

what????

@@ghettochicken8420 Biden said to fire 2 shots in the air to scare off burglars.

He also said to do it with a double-barrel shotgun, to scare Intruders off. Like you want to be reloading in a life-or-death situation.

Let’s go Brandon.

Lol it's like asking Byron supporters why they voted for him other than trumps orange . Not tryna make it about politics just an example.

The problem with that is you assume they care enough to try and justify doing it, they don't care so they just do it anyway.

Unnecessary comment. Justification?

@@robm6510 to be fair, your reply to my comment is unnecessary.

@@bottomherout2357 there are plenty of reasons to vote for Biden. I didn't vote for him, but it would intellectually dishonest of me to say there were no good reasons to vote for him

I think the issue is people don't understand that an arc does little to remove lethality until you have an extreme distance. Shot 100% straight up into the air: can hurt but should not kill. Shot at an angle: much longer range but still deadly.

I think the issue here in the States is people shooting at an arching angle vs straight up. You see it a lot in videos.

@@soulknight89 The issue is firing in the air at all, whether at an angle or straight up, it's still moronic.

its funny you mention this... I worked with an immigrant to the US from Afghanistan and he told/showed us a funny tale of him out partying one night. Looked up saw something glowing in the sky and thought "what is that?" as he was shot in the chest by a rogue bullet from celebratory fire.

250 fps can still cause bodily damage too. And it can be very lethal

"...and it is straight up just..." but no pun intended, right?

"He just said that the bullet would burn up in the atmosphere." There aren't enough state supported living centers and mental institutions in the world for all of these people.

@@youbetterwakeup2449 Amen!

@@youbetterwakeup2449 Yeah, I'm thinking we need to do a bleach shock of the shallow end of the gene pool and get evolution working again.

Bullet would burn up in the atmosphere? Jesus Christ, that man deserved to have that gun snatched the fuck away from him. It's a bullet, not a orbital device!

No everyone knows bullets have the same ceramic plates NASA uses on space capsules and shuttles….. Also if you wrap your head in tinfoil, it’s bulletproof and keeps the aliens from reading your mind…..

No shortage of idiots brother...

@@buckeyepatriot4594 no there isnt

79% of the east coast

The guy in Ohio who was mag dumping an AR in his backyard, when a police officer shot through his fence killing him.

Well, lets see, who does this... Ever been too anywhere on the African continent? Because all of them. ALL. And pretty much all of South America as well. Hmmm... with tens of millions of immigrants streaming into the USA, since boomers took over... Im just gonna throw out a guess...

@@ronin8490 the dude killed an officer or...?

Safer then any day at the range personal or public. Numbers don't lie

@@phantomaviator1318 The officer shot through a fence killing a man while he unloaded a magazine shooting at the sky.

Bottle Rockets, among most fireworks, aren't legal in California. guess that's why we found a 375 bullet on our roof.

No they tested at 90 not 45

And bottle rockets are even more spectacular when you tie about 20 of them together to launch at once, lol. Just don't get drunk and launch them from your hand or you'll wake up the next morning with no hair on your arm and burned skin.

Hey that episode kept me out of jail.

For real. I'm way away from any city, out in the sticks and all I did at midnight was light off a single jumbo bottle rocket. From the sounds of it there was alot of people "mag dumping" tho. The funny thing is if they knew anything about guns they would just get a shotgun with some bird shot. Or some dragon's breath. That would be the best of both worlds lol

Especially now.

You answered your own question, they don't care.

All fireworks in my town. A lot more fun and nobody ( usually) gets hurt.

My first thought when I saw the video was who would waste expensive ammo?

@@williamturner6192 took the words right out my mouth..

We called that IDF and shot back.

One round came through the roof of our office and landed on my motor sgt's office chair.

Ahh the stories of the POGs lol.

Tell me more

ya, but their kids also play in and around RPGs, live grenades and full auto AKs....mostly do just fine while ours need helmet and pads to ride their tricles....

There was a sniper trying to take her out. Good thing he missed.

Even .223 goes for miles, some of the bullets in this vid were clearly from a large rifle. The search area for that is dozens of square miles min. Imagine knowing that & still shooting your rifle in the air.

It was Yogi the Bear

EXACTLY!

Hal shot Otto Mannkusser in the ass in that one episode of "Malcolm in the Middle" where the family visited the ranch Francis lived/worked at, lmao.

Finally someone replied with some common sense and facts.

I just posted this on a different comment, I'm pasting it here- I actually asked a physics professor about this one time, when I was in college over a decade ago. The argument of "terminal velocity" only applies if a bullet is fired perfectly straight up, so that it has no horizontal component to its trajectory. In that scenario, the bullet travels straight up, it's motion stops entirely, and then it falls. In that case, it's terminal velocity would be the same as any other object dropped from a great height. The professor was very clear though, that if *any horizontal movement was part of the trajectory* then the bullet would still be lethal.

@@scottcantdance804 At some point the forward energy bleeds off, so the "any horizontal movement" has limitations. I may have to sit down and do a ballistic graph on some know calibers to see what angles this occurs at. I am not supporting shooting into the air, I'm just curious as to the exact limitations.

Yea because nobody in your town or anyone elses will get hit from a falling bullet ever. 2 cases in all history both involved gang banging axx people. A small boy in Cleveland Ohio(probably shot by negligence just not firing into the air) and this chick who without enough evidence(the police had to side with witnesses). Both are murders without enough evidence being labeled like this because the cops don't wanna waste their life on an unsolvable case

I've got some family up there and they tell me that area is going to hell fast. Neighborhoods that just five years ago were considered safe are now having major problems :(

I was out with my dog shortly after midnight. Nice to know where the pistol-packing idiots are.

@@scawarren most areas here aren’t as bad as national opinion would have you believe. You just gotta know where to stay away from. Mainly north city and the east side. But it got crazy in areas it’s normally safe that night.

There are neighborhoods in Savannah that sound like the sound stage for the movie Blackhawk Down on NYE and Independence Day.

THANK U FOR YOUR SERVICE TO YOUR COMMUNITY AND OUR COUNTRY. WATCH YOUR SIX AND STAY SAFE.

@Drew Bond its still better to shoot blanks then live ammo, your reply made no sense for this comment

@@rumrain838 Than* unless you're actually saying that you should start shooting blanks, followed by live ammo. 🤣

There's ALOT of things people do that are unbelievable.

i can, lol

I can't blame people who do this.

@@robm6510 i can

@@J.M.415 Like voting for the Democratic party.

I'm in Chicago as well, and oh boy were they shooting! I kept thinking about the thousands of dollars of ammo that was just wasted. I always take the family to the basement for about 30 to 45 minutes after midnight just in case.

@@TChalla616 probbly more then cupple thousand, since people buying it illegally gotta pay more

Like San Antonio 🙃

@@jtgoeswest3792 even more south bub lol

I recommend that you get some blank shotgun shells for next year then. Better than wasting money on live ammunition

insert ryan reynolds meme "...but why?"

A decent fix for ammosexuals is a large garbage can full of water and a 22 colibri round. Although my family does black powder with just a patch on the fourth.

I always shoot into the ground and I’m not worried about the cost of a few rounds.

@@titan_kirk 12ga Shotgun blank rounds $40.50 qty 25 Winchester Target Load 12 Gauge #8 Shotshells - 25 Rounds $7.99 Nah, birdshot will suffice, since it is cheaper.

Bird shot

@@kevinsedwards nerd!

Lol

Sound logic, my friend.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it's illegal in every state. Stupid, but not illegal.

Actually, we have a lot of fireworks, too much in fact, so there are laws that restrict the amount of fireworks can be on the market. And yes, while we have fireworks on cheap prices there's still dumbasses who discharge to the sky, normally in the suburbs or villages outside the city, but for obvious reasons it's still freaking dangerous. (I'm an IPSC Shooter from Ecuador)

LOL WTF! Not laughing about the boy..that's tragic .

Over a tree line is a lot different than a falling bullet fired straight up, a lot more dangerous, but both are a no go

@@marsicogodofwar9280 Yup.

@@Johnny_Cash_Flow Where do you serve Marine Corps here 0311 02 to 06 tours

@@marsicogodofwar9280 Camp Lagoon, North Cakalaki; 0231, 02-07; Iraq 04 & 05.

@@Johnny_Cash_Flow Pendleton here lol I’m guessing you remember part two during Phantom Fury, I won’t forget that one lol

No this feels like Colion telling us not to run with scissors, but saying that because some of us point out there is a proper way to carry scissors, that we should all be quiet. We all already know shooting in the Air is stupidly dangerous And no one cares about prooving themselves, we simply hate untruthfullness. We leave that to the anti-gunners. A bullet shot at a >80 degree vertical trajectory will kill no one. You can write out the physics equation and compare the peak veloctiy (in ALL vectors) when the bullet returns to the ground, and not in any directional vector would the bullet achieve a deadly velocity (technically you'd need to refernce a lethal-velocity chart for bullets of that specific weight, and to be super accurate you'd need to consider surface area - but there are generalized lethal-velocty values for lead bullets of certain masses. And in such the surface is negligible if using any standard bullet design - be it ball, miniball, or even modern spitzer shaped.). Still it is a terrible, terrible idea to do this, because it's to easy to screw up! But everyone knows this. But Colion is hurting the cause by not understanding true falling bullets are not lethal nor roof-penetrating; he makes us look dumb. As you lilely undrstand, for the same reason hale stones more massive than bullets don't go through your roof... neither do true falling bullets. However, bullets shot at a volley angle can easily do this. I doubt Colion knows the history of volley shots in the pre 20th-century millitary though .

@@testing2741 Improbable, not impossible. Just don't do it.

@@testing2741 We had rounds fired in the air by Iraqis land in our living space fast enough to punch through the metal containers we were living in and embed themselves into the wooden floor. Now on paper that might not be "Lethal" to you but for the people who were nearly hit it wasnt exactly a great day.

i believe the problem we are having is that bullets are not expensive enough or too many in production. in the early days when you couldn't get bullets as easily, well, you only shoot when you had to! maybe people are not as smart now as they were then? grrrr, i can go on.

i used to do that back in the day after seeing some famous archer shoot a bow with his feet up in the air while laying on his back. lost track of one arrow, didnt think much about it. until i was walking back up to the house and saw it sticking out of the edge of the chimney, about 20 feet east of where my grandma was hanging up laundry!!! needless to say i never did that again!!!

Get a shotgun! Just get a shotgun! That's the only thing I agree with him. I'll bet he says different now though...

His example also used a double barreled shotgun to fire two (2) blasts into the air. Therefore, unloading YOUR weapon. Biden's advise is generally as useful as his first person life stories!

Don't forget the charges for discharging a firearm in city limits.

@@adampaulfarmer That largely depends on what city you live in...

Don't mess with ole corn-pop joe, he was a crack pot shot back in the day. Whenever he tore the corner in that 67 mustang, he would take off the tops of four light poles with his triple barrel shot-gun, just to let the cops know corn-pop is ah bhaaad dude.

@KB I saw people walk out to their back porch from my hotel balcony and they just mag dump everything they got

I hope that cop is doing time.

Huh... I think I remember that being a big thing... yeah...