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Do they kill people on the ground?
Nästan säkert gör några.
Folk som drabbats av fallande kulor är mer benägna att dö än att människor sköt direkt. Chansen att en viss kula faller på en person är mycket liten men under årtiondena har många kuggar avfyras av flygplan.
Pistolkulor
Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.
Bullets fired into the air during celebrations return at a speed fast enough to penetrate the skin and cause internal damage to other organs in the path of the migrating bullet. The bullet’s velocity required for skin penetration is between 148 and 197 feet per second. A velocity of less than 200 feet per second, which is easily obtained by a celebratory gunfire, is capable of fracturing bone and even causing intracranial penetration [4]. Spent bullets have the capability of reaching up to 600 feet per second during their downfall, and thus they have the ability to inflict damage to multiple body cavities [4]. The larger caliber bullets (ie, .45-caliber) reach a higher terminal velocity compared with the smaller caliber bullets (ie, .30-caliber), because of the proportion of their weight to their diameter [4].
Från länk
For those hit by falling bullets, the chance of the wound being fatal was far higher than a typical shooting. The hospital put deaths from regular shootings between 2% and 6%, while for those struck by falling bullets the death rate was close to one third.
Från länk
Flygplan rundor
Dessa fallande kulor var från firande gunfire, inte avfyrade från flygplan.
Flygplansburna brandprojektiler som ofta är mycket tyngre än pistolrundor. Om man faller på dig måste sannolikheten för skada eller död vara högre.
.22 Winchester magnum rimfire och .50 Browning MG rundor i samma skala. källa