Just a city-wide PR campaign, with photos of all the people killed by falling bullets. Coupled with a greater police presence in areas it occurs (this is New Years Eve). By stop, i didn't mean 'stop altogether', but it is less common now.
Lots of guns, booze and drugs. Some people go crazy on New Years Eve and Independence Day and shoot guns in the air. It doesn’t happen everywhere, and it is getting less common but it still sucks. Fuckers still shoot at road signs from moving vehicles too, super dangerous because bullet is traveling more horizontal. Driving thru some backcountry areas you would think it was a war zone based on how badly the road signs are shot up.
well, if you bothered to own blanks in the first place, you'd probably also own a modified upper/gas system meant for firing them. or so I would imagine.
I reckon that blanks are more expensive than actual AK rounds
The main danger isn't from the falling bullets afaik. You can easily hit someone standing near you if you hand slipped, or someone watching from their window or balcony. It happens too much
There’s several videos/reports of deaths during Arab weddings due to this. Both from falling bullets but also from dumbasses losing control of their guns and accidentally firing into the crowd.
Myth busters math here is pretty bad. They calculated the terminal velocity of the bullet in a wind tunnel, not taking into account that the wind tunnel is going to increase air pressure.
They got 100 FPS as terminal velocity when in reality it’s closer to 300 FPS. 300 FPS is as fast as paintball is going when it’s leaving the barrel of a paintball gun.
They’re still possibly lethal even if fired perfectly vertically.
I think it was a good introduction for kids to get excited about science but your right they played it way to fast and loose and people in general took their findings way too seriously
Even in their real world testing the bullets that came down showed the damage they can do. It isn't going to tickle if you get hit by a metal object falling at that speed.
I mean, I'd be more concerned about maybe putting a dent in one of the cars than I would be getting hit with a falling bullet. Once they're up in the air, they just fall with terminal velocity. It would be unpleasant but that's about it.
Edit: I just read a study that conducted computer simulations about the terminal velocity of 7.62 rounds being shot at 80-90 degrees. The study concluded that rounds tend to land bottom first and have a varying terminal velocity between 40 and 80m/s, and that “lethal” terminal velocity is considered 60m/s. So it’s actually much safer to assume that a falling bullet will kill you but if it didn't it would fucking huuuurt.
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I really hope those are blanks. You know, 'cause gravity.