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To: central_va

Whatever you say. We need to end this exchange before I say the wrong thing to you. ‘Bye.


166 posted on 02/22/2018 6:45:46 PM PST by OKSooner (Joan Rivers, RIP)
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To: OKSooner
Greg Klebanoff posed this on Quora:

The terminal velocity of most falling bullets is about 300 feet per second (or 204 miles per hour). After reaching that velocity they will cease accelerating and continue falling at that speed until they hit the earth. In addition, a bullet fired straight into the air does not fall nose first; rather it shifts onto its side and wobbles on its downward journey.

Three hundred feet per second is much shower than the velocity of a bullet leaving the muzzle of a gun—which is usually anywhere between 800 and 4,000 plus feet per second. Accordingly, a bullet falling straight down typically does not have sufficient energy to kill or seriously injury someone.

230 posted on 02/23/2018 4:17:07 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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