It goes without saying how frightening this behavior is, which makes us jump from where we are even when we hear its voice from afar. We can probably all agree that this behavior, which directly kills people or can cause serious injury indirectly, should be stopped.
In summary, let’s see how the bullet, which comes out of the gun and completes its process in the sky, continues its journey together.
It is thought that shooting into the air will not harm people, but this is absolutely false information.
A human or animal does not have to die for the bullet to pose any risk. Even if that bullet is not hit, it may pose a potential danger in the region and cause various injuries.
Although some claims on the subject are that the bullet fired towards the sky reaches space and stays there, there is no truth to this claim.
The kinetic energy and constant velocity of the bullet that comes out of the barrel is called “fit bullet”.
The free fall of the projectile due to gravity, after losing its muzzle velocity, is referred to as a “tired bullet”. When this explosive material has finished its ascent, it moves at a speed of about 90-180 meters per second.
At the same time, hitting a person’s head with a bullet-sized object moving at a speed of 60 meters per second is in itself a deadly risk.
Again, if the bullet, which completes its journey towards the sky and tends to fall down, hits the head or shoulder, it may result in serious irreversible injuries.
The angle of the bullet is a very distinctive detail at this point.
If the projectile is fired upwards at a certain angle, rather than at a right angle to the sky, this explosive moves while maintaining its trajectory. This makes the projectile less likely to move by entering a rolling loop.
If the projectile moves straight ahead without rolling, it causes it to move at a much higher speed than in freefall, which means that the risk of death in freefall increases even more.
Also, wanting to elaborate on the rule that what goes up must come down, Benjamin Robins found in 1761 that a large-caliber projectile fired upwards returns to the ground after 30 seconds.
The Maxim machine gun was pulled into the tidal mud of a river and two bursts of about 30 rounds were fired into the air. Then the moments when the bullets hit the ground were calculated with a stopwatch and flight times of about 55 seconds were recorded.
The results obtained from the experiments determined that the bullets reached 2,750 meters, and it took almost twice as long to rise to 19 seconds.
So what is the risk of injury from these bullets?
Between 1985 and 1992, a group of doctors in Los Angeles studied victims of gunshot wounds and identified 118 who were believed to have been mostly shot by falling bullets. Among these people, there were also those who did not hear any gunshots and did not realize that the bullet had hit them.
For those hit by falling bullets, the chance of the wound being fatal was much higher than for a typical shot, with the hospital between 2% and 6% of deaths from regular shots, while those hit by falling bullets had a near one-third fatality rate.
The reason for this was quite simple. People unfortunate enough to be hit by falling bullets were more likely to be shot in the head, and although the bullets moved more slowly after being thrown into the sky, they were still strong enough to shatter people’s skulls.
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