[Pollster1]

Oops: Know your target and what is beyond. Be absolutely sure you have identified your target beyond any doubt. Equally important, be aware of the area beyond your target. This means observing your prospective area of fire before you shoot. Never fire in a direction in which there are people or any other potential for mishap. Think first. Shoot second.

[elkfersupper]

“Hold muh beer and watch this”.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like an excuse to me.

[Minutemen]

Way to go puddin’ head.. People like you give responsible firearm owners a bad name!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Unless he was shooting tracer rounds, I smell B.S..
This is the third or fourth such propaganda story about target shooters starting fires in the same number of days.

[elkfersupper]

That excuse is 100% BS.

I own a couple of things that launch a couple of things that might penetrate a shipping container, but not on ricochet.

[max americana]

“and must’ve ricocheted and struck the (container)”

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Oh dear, another gun-hating, limp-wristed libtard who is grasping for straws in an article.

[tumblindice]

[kingu]

I admit it, I don't know the state law either there or here for storage of fireworks. I do know that I've worked with three different fireworks companies and the MINIMUM container used was two one inch thick sheets of plywood covering all six walls of the cargo container.

So, you have a bullet discharge that hits something and ricochets - plausible. It might even penetrate a cargo container - again, plausible. But then going through the inner walls and igniting anything inside? Which should (at minimum) be a 200lb burst cardboard container filled with sawdust surrounding the firework shell by no less than 2 inches?

At minimum, for this to have happened, the container door would have had to have been open and the round would have had to hit just the right place.

Now, I've seen accidental discharge of fireworks - one job I walked away from had technicians using a staple gun to attach fuseline to the racks. One of the staples struck a nail, lit the fuse, and one person (the staple gun user) was seriously injured.

Most likely cause? In descending order: 1) Testing squibs. 2) Playing with flares...err, I mean, practicing lighting fuses with flares. No sane person would ever try to juggle them while lit. 3) Stapling or using a glue gun to attach fuses to a set piece. 4) Discharging fireworks to ‘practice.’

From the time, I'd say that number 3 is unlikely, even when terribly behind, never was working on set pieces the night before. I've seen #1 far far too many times (why carry the board and rail that far away from the bunker? Here's just fine...) #2 only happens without electronic ignition - possible due to the rural location.. But I'll have to go with #4. Using fireworks outside of license provisions, AKA, illegal fireworks.

[GATOR NAVY]

You call that a container full of fireworks explosion? Here's a container full of fireworks explosion...

MV Hanjin Pennsylvania burning off Sri Lanka in November 2002. Initially the fire was thought to have started in deck containers of fireworks, later it was determined the fire started elsewhere and set off the fireworks.

Aftermath.