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Faithful007:
They are fired up to 15000 feet at 1500m/s. They fall back at 200m/s and can still be quite deadly, that's why people are killed by stray bullets.

They lie small small abeg....how can an object falling under the influence of gravity travel for 200m/s

KillSars:
E be like sey na everybody wan dey mad for this country, no lele nah..

Bullets shot in the air, goes up, hang up in the space, transformed into a star and they start singing "shine bright like a diamond"

This guy nah physics genius.

Where Do Bullets Go When Guns Are Fired Straight Up Into the Air?

BY PATRICK J. KIGER UPDATED: MAY 7, 2019

Firing off gunshots into the air can be extremely dangerous to bystanders.

The saying "What goes up must come down" is an appropriate starting point. If you fire a gun into the air, the bullet will travel up to a mile high (depending on the angle of the shot and the power of the gun). Once it reaches its apogee, the bullet will fall. Air resistance limits its speed, but bullets are designed to be fairly aerodynamic, so the speed is still quite lethal if the bullet happens to hit someone. In rural areas, the chance of hitting someone is remote because the number of people is low. In crowded cities, however, the probability rises dramatically, and people get killed quite often by stray bullets.

Here's one example: On New Year's Eve 2017, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Armando Martinez, stepped outside a home and suddenly felt as if he'd been struck with a sledgehammer. After he was rushed to the hospital, it turned out that he'd been struck on the top of the head by a falling .223-caliber bullet. A fragment of the round penetrated the top of his skull and lodged itself in the top layer of his brain, requiring surgery to remove it, according to CNN.


Martinez, who recovered from his injury, became another victim of the strange custom of celebratory gunfire, in which revelers fire bullets into the air that eventually fall back to Earth — and occasionally hit other people.

There aren't good statistics on how often this happens across the U.S., but news reports describe numerous fatalities over the years. This 2015 article from The Trace, for example, describes two cases of children killed by falling bullets apparently fired during Fourth of July celebrations in 2011 and 2012. A 2004 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day of that year, bullets from celebratory gunfire caused 19 injuries and one death.

Thirty-six percent of the victims were struck on the top of the head, with feet (26 percent) and shoulders (16 percent) the next most common injury sites. A 2017 Miami Herald article cites numerous instances over the years, ranging from at least 20 people killed in Iraq in 2003 by celebratory gunfire after the death of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay.

So How High Will a Bullet Go?
Aside from the perplexing question of why such a reckless, potentially lethal practice remains so popular, you may also be wondering, what actually happens to a bullet that's fired straight up into the sky? How high does it go? What stops it and sends it falling back to Earth? And when it descends, when and where does it land?


Those aren't necessarily simple questions to answer. Ballistics researchers have spent a lot of time studying the performance of bullets fired horizontally, because that's useful information for improving the accuracy and range of shooters. But when it comes to firing straight up in the air, which isn't something that soldiers, police officers, hunters or target shooters normally would do, there's not nearly as much data.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Julian Hatcher, who apparently was curious and had some time on his hands, did experiments in Florida in which he fired various weapons — ranging from rifles to machine guns — up into the air, and tried to measure how long it took for the bullets to come down, as well as where they landed. As he noted in his 1947 volume "Hatcher's Notebook," he calculated that a standard .30 caliber bullet fired from a rifle pointed straight up would rise to an altitude of 9,000 feet (2,743.2 meters) in 18 seconds, and then would return to Earth in another 31 seconds, and during the last few thousand feet would attain a "nearly constant" speed of 300 feet (91.4 meters) per second

ivolt:

Why don't you show us those wounded and killed by bullets? Not another dark video or narration please.

Go on twitter and search for yourself, Omo ale

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Enwhen:



You r wrong ... Stray bullet is because they fail to maintain vertical position of the gun while shooting mostly for AK47... If properly shot at a vertical position , once the bullets gets to its maximum height , it loses all it force , and falls down lightly with no direction of either sides of the bullet ends, which when compared to the upward movement where it move with the side of the penetrating face of the bullet.

You just said nonsense. The person you quoted is right.

Op, it goes into your medulla oblongata.

All these useless questions from Apc urchins.

[qufote author=ShoProperties post=95257153]We see military personnel everyday shooting bullets in the air in a bid to either scare away civilians or announce their arrival to restore sanity to an already deteriorating event, either way, most people get to wonder where the bullets that are shot straight up into the air goes to and if by any chance they can cause any form of damage or injury.
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Go and study projectiles in physics.

It goes up like an utility curve and drops after reaching the height it can possibly reach then free fall

Science Students gather here!

DaFuhrer:


They lie small small abeg....how can an object falling under the influence of gravity travel for 200m/s

The internet is there go you to get educated. Shooting into the air is very deadly as the falling bullet packs enough velocity to be lethal. That's why celebratory shots are banned in most states of the USA

shooting it side way into the sky can be lethal to what ever end. but positioning it straight upwards will exhaust all it forces and fall down harmless or can only cause serious injuries.

SalamRushdie:
Bullets shot into the air can actually Fall with almost the same lethal muzzle velocity depending on the angle of fire and the weather forces at play at the time ..Yes falling bullets can kill .



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFP3npxlJVk

is it rubber bullets that are shot at military parades?

ShoProperties:
We see military personnel everyday shooting bullets in the air in a bid to either scare away civilians or announce their arrival to restore sanity to an already deteriorating event, either way, most people get to wonder where the bullets that are shot straight up into the air goes to and if by any chance they can cause any form of damage or injury.

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they go outer the earth to the sun were the the bullet melt due to 1200 degree Celsius of the sun!

Naijabad:
They defy the law of gravity and hang in the air.

Bad guy.
Some even turn to birds we see in air

Lagoon0:

You're very right the position of the soldiers were not 90° the shot at angle and the movement of the bullet was a projectile motion.

KINEMATICS ABI? Gone are days bro! e don taye

Possible. Not travel for, but its velocity could reach 200m/s depending on the height its falling from.

DaFuhrer:


They lie small small abeg....how can an object falling under the influence of gravity travel for 200m/s

eagleonearth:
is it rubber bullets that are shot at military parades?

Blanks

Faithful007:
They are fired up to 15000 feet at 1500m/s. They fall back at 200m/s and can still be quite deadly, that's why people are killed by stray bullets.

Does it achieve terminal velocity on its way down?

Faithful007:
They are fired up to 15000 feet at 1500m/s. They fall back at 200m/s and can still be quite deadly, that's why people are killed by stray bullets.

stray bullets are fired at no particular targets. That doesn't mean the gun was pointed vertically upward.. A bullet fired vertically upwards would go as far as it can, & d pellets would drop like snow, without any fatal force

ShoProperties:
Kindly share your thoughts on this
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If it's in Lekki, I'm not buying lol

I swear all of you defending soldiers shooting at all are very mad!!!

ivolt:

Why don't you show us those wounded and killed by bullets? Not another dark video or narration please.

Check this out,

https://twitter.com/i/status/1319652919894024192


secondly they off the light, how do u expect to get a clear video in such situations when everywhere was dark. U should be reasonable.

KillSars:
E be like sey na everybody wan dey mad for this country, no lele nah..

Bullets shot in the air, goes up, hang up in the space, transformed into a star and they start singing "shine bright like a diamond"

KillSars:
E be like sey na everybody wan dey mad for this country, no lele nah..

Bullets shot in the air, goes up, hang up in the space, transformed into a star and they start singing "shine bright like a diamond"

Interesting thread I must say

They fire 'blanks' most times. Nothing goes up, nothing returns.

They are captured when they were shooting into the air but they later fired straight to people. If they only shot into the air, nobody will die but falling bullet from AK (150miles/hr) can still cause some injuries but won't penetrate.

If you shot into the air, it will come down after reaching its maximum velocity. It's the same if you shoot straight, the bullet will get tired along the way if it doesn't hit any physical body. AK47 that our Police use can travel 800meters. But, it's maximum effective range is 400meters. After 400meters, the effect will be dropping.

Once you are hearing gunshots, if not crowded go straight down, find cover and start crawling. If it is crowded like the Tues Lekki event and to avoid a stampede, keep finding the nearest space that will allow you to crawl and find a cover asap. Once you are in a safe area, remove all your cloth and check your body or ask someone nearby to check for you. Some people are hit and won't know instantly.

Soldiers always say “You never hear the one that hits you”. The bullet is faster than the speed of sound. So, people are getting hit before they hear it. Once you hear gunshot sound just once, japa.