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Where Do The Bullets Go?

Watching things unfold in Tripoli have you wondered what happens with all the automatic weapon ammunition that is being fired into the air? Where will all those bullets land? Could they actually kill someone?

In a nutshell - yes.

In Episode 50 of Myth Busters, they posed this same question, but long before the Libyan crisis came to a head. They reported in the 2006 show that "in the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact".

They further reported that "if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most (US) states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time".

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