Bullets kill people.
Guns just make them go really, really fast.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
First time I ever heard of it.
Stop bullet violence!
THIS sounds like a test for the Mythbusters... Oh, right, Jamie and Adam wouldn't do anything so stupid, not without the crew to go play with bullets.
Yeah, especially since a “bullet” is just a lump of inert lead.
/pedantry
Bullets kill people.
Guns just make them go really, really fast.
I'm skeptical anyone actually has .22 ammo these days.
It was an assault bullet.
Rim fire cartridges no doubt..............
Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet...a bullet, and I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that, I was walking down the street, when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon bible out a hotel room window, hitting me in the chest. Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
When I was a kid I set of a 12 gauge bird shot shell in a vice.
It stung my foot through my tennis shoes but didn’t penetrate my foot. Good thing it wasn’t a slug.
Kids is so stupit.
Something is not right about this story. When I was a kid, I once had some .22 Long Rifle shells in my jacket pocket along with a 9V battery. A shell went off when it shorted across battery’s contacts. It just made a muffled, but sharp “pop”, and barely caused my denim jacket to move at all.
How is that possible?
Atrocious journalist writings again?
This is a really dead horse.
You can get a minor injury or lose an eye from something like this, but it would be nearly impossible for it to kill or be considered a proper gunshot wound.
There is a whole long video made for emergency response teams that shows what happens to loose ammo in a fire, when crushed, dropped, whatever.
In fact, here it is: SAAMI - Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c
The end result is that it might pierce unprotected skin or very light clothing, but it has no chance of penetrating a Fireman’s jacket.
That should give you some idea of the maximum damage it could inflict. It might tear you up a bit but without a barrel to contain the powder ignition and build pressure behind the bullet no lethal velocity can happen.
HA! Excellent common sense counter argument!
Can a dropped loaded gun discharge a bullet?
Similar, but different.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/10/13/4176445/dropped-bullet-discharges-wounds.html#storylink=misearch
I'd think you're more likely to be hit by the casing than the bullet.
>> THIS sounds like a test for the Mythbusters...
A little google research reveals that Mythbusters may have had a go at this question already, although I couldn’t find any video or writeup on it.
Here’s a thread chock full of intelligent-sounding blather on the subject:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080424173706AAweSFm
The part about the SHELL becoming the projectile (’cause it’s lighter) makes sense to me.
Kinda makes me want to run an experiment. :-)
Sammi Video on ammo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c
Written report on ammo no in a chamber
It could happen but the damage from dropping a .22 rifle on you foot may well be more than having a unchambered round go off at you
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