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From: hplabs!rick@hpfcdj.hp.com (Rick Greer)
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Subject: Re: Small caliber velocity
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Date: 8 Jan 90 05:11:35 GMT
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From: hplabs!rick@hpfcdj.hp.com (Rick Greer)

/ hpfcdj:sci.military / henry@hutto.UUCP (Henry Melton) /  9:25 pm  Jan  3, 1990 /

From: henry@hutto.UUCP (Henry Melton)

...  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?
 
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Henry Melton ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!hutto!henry
1-512-8463241 Rt.1 Box 274E Hutto,TX 78634
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A couple of years ago a man was killed in Denver, Colorado by a shot fired
randomly into the air.  It was, I think, a shot from a .38 pistol.   Someone
was simply using a firearm in lieu of a firecracker.   The odds of this man
being a casualty had to be very small.  Nonetheless, he is dead.   IMO, it is 
not safe to arbitrarily fire a gun into the air. 


Rick Greer        I speak for myself, not the Company I work for.