Family burned when fireworks go off during road rage shooting: deputies

abc 13 ^ | July 6, 2019 | abc 13

[RandallFlagg]

Because everybody knows that non ferrous metals (Lead and copper) ignite things just by looking at them.

Tracers?!?!

Absurd.

[CincyRichieRich]

I could not have written a more absurd script if I had tried. Has they say you cannot make stuff like that up.

[Chainmail]

Not completely: kinetic energy easily translates to heat, enough heat to ignite things. Coupled with easily ignited gunpowder, it would be close to certainty.

I handed my FAL loaded with ball ammo to a staff sergeant at Quantico during a fam shoot and he fired a couple of rounds at the edge of our cleared area - it it started a fire in the trees that stopped our shooting and brought the base fire department.

[dainbramaged]

Sounds like a full on Chinese fire drill.

[RandallFlagg]

Interesting. Still...
Wait, I just thought that if the projectiles heated the steel of the vehicle while passing through enough before the metals hit the gunpowder.

Hmmm. I (Might) stand corrected.
Thank you.

[Deaf Smith]

The flash powder in firecrackers can be set off under pressure. Such pressure applied by a projectile at significant velocity will do.

[TigersEye]

I think a trip to the range to test this theory is in order.

(like I needed and excuse)

[Deaf Smith]

Take a roll of Black Cats.

That was my mistake as a teenager.

[gundog]

Bi-metal bullets are loaded in some Com-bloc ammo. Copper wash over steel jacket, over lead core. Readily available at Walmart.

[TigersEye]

:) Teenage mistakes. I can’t type that much anymore I’ll get carpal tunnel.

Black Cats it is, I’ve got a box full of them somewhere around here.

[bigbob]

Morale of the story could be to avoid getting into situations where your family is being shot at, even when you don’t have a load of fireworks in the car.

[Cboldt]

Palsgraf v Lawn Guyland Railroad

[Deaf Smith]

Intead of pressure I should have said under force of compression.

[RandallFlagg]

Learn something new everyday.

[TigersEye]

It’s all good, I understood that.

[familyop]

Yeah. I saw fires on ranges in the Guard several times. Bullets can ignite weeds or grass, even at 300 meters.

[SkyPilot]

The two children, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old, suffered extensive burns and are in critical condition.

Nothing to joke about.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Not completely: kinetic energy easily translates to heat, enough heat to ignite things. Coupled with easily ignited gunpowder, it would be close to certainty."

Don't need heat....impact will do the trick. Take a very small amount of firecracker powder and hit it with a hammer.

[WashingtonSource]

Videos don’t work at link. Did the TV station disable them?