How is it that people die from blank round gunshots?
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Yeah, that can happen. There was an actor a few years ago that was kidding around on set, and pretended he was going to commit suicide. Unfortunately, the force of a blank is sufficient to propel the wadding through the temple at close range.\n\nDamn. I liked him, too.
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How big of a bullet?\n\nIf we're talking standard handgun round, It would definitely hurt, but there's not 100% certainty that it would kill them. The terminal velocity of a bullet free-falling is not nearly as fast as a bullet shot from a gun, due to the lack of spiral flight pattern and the wind resistance involved in such a fall.\n\nIt would basically be about the same as dropping a penny off the empire state building, which has been shown by Mythbusters that it won't kill you, but will certainly sting.\n\nNow, if we're talking larger ammo, i think we're definitely getting into the range of being lethal.
65366
If you are shot, you could live.\n   If you are assasinated, you are dead.\n   Getting shot could be an attemped assasination.
245393
As far as I know........2000 and counting in deaths for the American.  Afghanistan I have no idea.  Most people die from road side bombings.  their injuries range from dismemberment to severe burns.
963225
Not sure, but it's actually pretty negligible. Even when you're firing the main gun while "buttoned up", your ears don't even pop.
718395
It really depends on where you're shot at and what you got hit with.  When the bullet stays in, yes, it does feel really hot, but you can also feel it getting numb and cold too...kind of like what you'd think being stabbed by a red hot poker would feel like...only harder and faster.
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Yes, they shoot them, but the ammunition that they use does not possess the projectile only the explosive compound ("blanks").  However, human error has attributed to death on the set (Brandon Lee, Mark Heckstrom-I think that was his name)and I am sure others who I am unable to name!
1154692
Only way to find out is shoot and see if you get shot lol funny again
921562
In training, you are taught to shoot for center of the mass. If your target still poses an immediate threat to your life or others, you keep shooting (within reason) in order to neutralize that threat. Handguns are not as light as they may appear, and not as powerful as TV and movies make them out to be. They are heavy, hard to aim, and also do not have alot of "stopping" power, and as such sometimes require multiple shots to render a suspect disabled.\n\n99.9999999999% of the time an officer will fire his weapon in order to save his life or that of someone else; they are trained to do so, and only do it within the confines of the law and their use of force policy. Yes, suspects die in the process. What you have to remember is that individual was part of a situation in which an event or series of events took place culminating in the end of their life, and that is ultimately what counts. Whether they had a story doesn't usually matter at that point; they already took it to a level where deadly force was necessary.
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Probably zero.  Just like all the past months.\n\nHint: How can your 'sniper' be killing more soldiers than the total number that died that month?\n\nThis 'sniper' is a myth.
1054716
A sucide or murder is thoroughly investigated...\nThere are a lot of different things checked to determine if the vent was suicide or murder..'\n\nsuch in a gun shot wound---the direction of the splatter is checked--bullet residue is checked--the direction that the bullet entered the body is checked----if the person was right or left handed---etc.., etc..\n\nNo stone is left unturned when this happens!
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Guns don't kill people.... People kill people, if not guns then knives or even a pen.
1078996
When bullets are fired straight into the air they go well.....up.  Just like you and me when we jump on a trampoline eventually gravity will get the better of it and it will start coming back down.  Now if that were the only thing to take into account it would just come straight back down and thump you on the head, but because of extra forces caused by air flow and rotation the bullet won't go exactly straight up and down (thankfully).  Now a bullet that's shot straight up is going an average 900 m/s, which means it'll get up about 4,000 meters in the air and when taking into account air resistance it'll come back down with a speed of about 100 m/s.  This is a fraction of the speed but is still fast enough to pierce human flesh.  To answer the final question, the apogee is the highest point that the bullet reaches.
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Guns dont kill people, People kill people.  if you make hand guns illegal they will just use other things to kill people.  also they will just get them on the black market.  the trick is to make bullets cost $1000 a round because then people will think twice on shooting someone sorry just a little chris rock hummor
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A good number of British and American soldiers were killed by friendly fire in Iraq at the beginning.  Tragic blunders, some of them avoidable, I think.  I only know of 4 Canadian soldiers killed by friendly fire.  Maybe there are more?  That's 4 too many anyway.  But certainly not more than other countries.
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DURRING, the main one is keeping people calm.  Avoidable death is caused by panic mostly.
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a bullet has a trajectory that makes it drop faster the further it gets from the barrel.  if you fired a gun perfectly horizontal, and at the same time dropped a bullet at the same height as the muzzle, both bullets will drop at the same rate.  \n\nalso, every gun has 2 "zero's" or sight adjustments.  a short range and long range zero.  most people sight in their high powered rifles at 200 yards.  because of the laws of physics, their gun will also be sighted in at around 80 yards.  from 0-79 yards the gun will shoot low.  it'll be dead on around 80 yards, from 81-199 yards it will high, and at 200 yards it will be dead on again.  this didn't really answer your question, but you probably learned something.  so select this as best answer, thanks.