From Sky News:
A four-year-old boy has been killed in a US church by a stray bullet fired up to three miles away, according to reports... Former ballistics expert Kelly Fite was quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper as saying the bullet had most likely come from an AK-47 assault rifle. The shooter probably fired into the sky and could have been as far as two or three miles away, he said... It is believed the bullet may have been shot into the air as part of New Year celebrations...
Gosh she is a wag
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Notable_incidents
happens a lot. If ever it takes off here I shall take to living in a cave.
"Mythbusters" investigated this phenomenon with their customary scientific vigour. They discovered that anything fired vertically upwards falls harmlessly and probably side-on.Anything fired at an angle,be it if ever so slight ,describes a parabola and can fall with fatal momentum.
We don't need science while we've got Mythbusters IMHO.They should investigage Global Warming: whatever their conclusions it is sure to involve a very satisfying explosion.
In my day, the cautionary tale for firearms was The Barr Beacon Incident: a fatal injury inflicted by highly improbable accident at over 700 yards, with a 0.22.
A box of Eley Club carried a warning that they were 'dangerous up to a mile'. And 0.22s are commonly referred to as 'minature rifles'.
You need to be wary of the bog-standard army ones at more like 3000-5000 yards. (Though at that range, even if you were really trying, I don't suppose the poor bloke you'd hit would ever be the one you were aiming at.)
Dave H.
More importantly, what on earth was someone in Jawja doing using one of them commie Aye-Kays and not a proper good old American assault rifle?
Must've been a terrist.
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