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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
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Subject: Re: Small caliber velocity
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Date: 5 Jan 90 04:08:54 GMT
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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)

In article <12771@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@hutto.UUCP (Henry Melton) writes:
>the air.  You commonly hear of police firing a warning shot into the
>air, yet I have never heard of such a random shell killing anyone.  The
>physics of figuring the terminal velocity of small tumbling bullets is
>beyond me.  Does anyone know of any real figures?  How safe is it to
>fire a gun into the air?

There was a incident during a holiday last year (New Year's '89? July
4th?) in which a child in San Francisco (duaghter of a police officer
as I recall) died from being hit in the head by a falling bullet.

     --Hal

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