Posted on 10/14/2014 10:32:02 AM PDT by aimhigh
A bullet wounded a woman in the leg at a firing range in a freak accident that did not directly involve a gun, the Kings County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. About 2 p.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call for help at the Lemoore Sportsman Range in the 23000 block of Elgin Avenue, west of Highway 41 and south of the Kings River.
Deputies learned that a bullet hit a woman in the leg without actually coming out of the barrel of a gun.
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B.S. I have dropped too many rounds in my life and never had one go off!
Unusual but possible. I wouldn’t have believed it but I saw something once with my own eyes. Literally saw it happen.
A woman on an indoor shooting range. Had her box of 9mm ammo sitting in that plastic tray from inside the ammo box sitting on the bench in front of her. She had yet to start loading mags and was just setting up.
The shooter to her immediate left fired. His ejected casing flew over the divide, landed perfectly on an upturned primer, and it detonated. The round uncontained goes off like a small firecracker and shattered half the bullet tray, scattering its bretheren rounds in the tray.
Sensitive primer maybe, one in a billion luck, who knows? But I witnessed it.
>> Can a dropped loaded gun discharge a bullet?
Not if you drop it in a lake, like so many of us butterfingers FReepers seem to these days. ;-)
Hurl a .22 cartridge from a slingshot and there might be enough force to detonate the charge, but the casing would just split like firecracker.
Gravity from a bench would never impart enough energy to dent the rim enough to cause it to discharge.
Somebody is lying to cover up what really happened.
I have heard some say it cannot discharge. Yet I’ve seena couple of news stories saying just that.
and of course, like any uncontained round. The bullet was right there on the bench, the casing was like a piece of popcorn, and the primer was somewhere in the tile ceiling.
>> I have heard some say it cannot discharge.
(seriously now)
I would NEVER claim or assume that a firearm with a chambered round “cannot” discharge if dropped.
My guess is, some firearms are highly unlikely to discharge if dropped, and for others, just the opposite is true. Can’t name names though.
Depends on a number of things including, the type/mfg of gun and whether or not it was cocked when dropped, but it definitely can.
I have dropped hundreds of rounds of .22 rimfire and never once set off a round. I’m betting poor gun handling practices cause it.
Heard dat ....
no fun was had that day
so we water ballooned the ice cream truck girl....who looked really hot in a wet white tshirt
so ended my youthful days and I could focus on little else except those ice cream bells
When the powder in a cartridge ignites, in the absence of a barrel, the light cartridge moves, and the heavy bullet remains pretty much stationary.
I think it possible that she might have been hit by the cartridge. I think it’s pretty much impossible that she was hit with the bullet.
A few years ago a neighbor’s kid smacked a .22 round with a hammer. Just as you said it was the casing that hit him. He got a little bandaid sized cut and a butt smacking.
LOOK!!!!
A SECOND “MAJIC BULLET”!!!!
The first one one showed itself on Nov. 22, 1963
Thank you.
No way. It had to come from a gun to have any velocity. We cleaned up a bunch of trash at a range, there were some live rounds in it, , 9 mm, .45, etc. All the trash was put in a barrel and burned, of course the rounds exploded, but not one of them came out barrel...or through it. The casing blows back, the lead goes forward, but without any velocity. It is , but mostly it’s just a loud pop when they went off (nothing supersonic), noise than a small firecracker. You could hear the big .45 rounds plinking around in the barrel. This is a hoax story to get people worried about the dangers of bullets and carrying them around...pure hoax. Next a gov reg will have us having to have bubble wrap around a box of bullets. I’d be looking for the guy who fired the Gunn and hit her.
Your welcome.
She was taken by helicopter to Community Regional Medical Center as a precaution. She was treated and released.
Wanna bet that helicopter ride was 25x the cost of the hospital bill? When she sees the invoice she will wish she rode her bike instead.
Firearms for Lefties, lesson #928: bullets and cartridges are two different things.
Don’t buy it either.
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