Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

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Re: Man killed in celebratory wedding firing

Post by nagarifle » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:15 pm

its sad that man died.

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Re: Man killed in celebratory wedding firing

Post by goodboy_mentor » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:45 pm

It is indeed sad. Celebratory firing is done by firing vertically towards the sky, even this is unsafe as the bullet may fall on someone with pretty high velocity that may cause grievous injury or even death. It is difficult to believe that for "celebratory" fire the gun was fired keeping it in direction towards the crowd that resulted in bullet hitting the forehead of one person. Most probably this was a preplanned crime.
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Re: Man killed in celebratory wedding firing

Post by essdee1972 » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:12 am

Again, and again..... highly avoidable tragedies take place ad nauseum! Poor guy!

Also, "vertical" may not be exactly so after a few liquid stimulants, probably 45 degrees would count as vertical to a guy in some stage of intoxication. The probability of ricochet also may be present in such cases (say, if the bullet hits a building and bounces downwards). One cannot also rule out impromptu shooting contests in an intoxicated state.

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Re: Man killed in celebratory wedding firing

Post by akayar » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:24 am

So far as I understand only Blanks should be used
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Re: Man killed in celebratory wedding firing

Post by nagarifle » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:01 am

akayar wrote:So far as I understand only Blanks should be used
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by ribaalber » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:08 pm

These are the things that must be banned.
Not owning of Guns..
These dumb uncivilized punks give the needed ammos for the Antis
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by Vineet » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:09 am

Was just watching news on Star News at 11 pm. The news they showed was that a boy was hit with something in his head. His parents took him to a hospital where after getting treatment for around 24 hours his condition did not improve. His parents shifts him to another hospital where doctors performs a CT scan and finds out some solid object in his head. They perform an operation to take it out and finds out that it was a bullet that has penetrated two centimeters in his head.

From what I could make out seeing the bullet on tv is that it was soft point rifle bullet most probably a 7mm or a similar caliber. The impression of the rifling was clearly visible on the bullet. Someone far away must have fired it in the air and the bullet while falling down hit the boy on top of his head.

We often think and discuss how dangerous can a bullet falling from sky can be. The doctor clearly said that the bullet penetrated two centimeters inside the boy's head. Therefore a bullet falling from the sky can be very dangerous.
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by goodboy_mentor » Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:16 am

A solution could be to educate arms owners about this hazard and to start selling blanks for celebratory firing. Are blanks for various calibers available with arms dealers?
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by Vineet » Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:24 pm

goodboy_mentor wrote: Are blanks for various calibers available with arms dealers?
Only 12 gauge shotgun blanks are easily available with arms dealers. They are manufactured by private companies in India and their quality is not good. They leave a lot of residue and fouling in the barrel. Regular use of these blanks may ruin a gun.
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by Tango_ Charli » Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:45 pm

art_collector wrote:...

Wish there was a school where these idots could be taught safe firing and handling of firearms......you often find people pointing revolvers at others while while taking a aim ......pointing the revolevr at some one while loading the cartridges....keeping the fingers on the trigger ....

Tragedies waiting to happen..............untrained drunk people at marriages.....Virginia is not far.......it cud happen here :cry:
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by pankajbanjara » Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:09 pm

i thing we IFG brethren can take out a small march or a candellight vigil , to show that we care for the innocent people who lost lives there
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by bennedose » Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:14 am

linguastic wrote:i am little bit confused with this discussion can anyone clear it.
The discussion can be summarized as follows
1. If you are happy, don't pick up a gun and fire it into the air to show your happiness or to celebrate
2. Even if you are not happy or not celebrating, don't pick up a gun and fire it into the air.
3. Tell everyone you know about this

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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by bennedose » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:56 am



Thousands of rounds fired in Pakistan for no known reason

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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by brihacharan » Mon Dec 02, 2013 10:02 am

> The act of celebratory firing in the air is highly deplorable...
> It amounts to the expression of a misguided sense of bravado & enthusiasm...
> It also shows the element of disregard to the safety of innocent folks present nearby and even at longer distances...
> Finally a total non observance of "Safety Rules" concerning firearms...
> IMHO - it would be prudent to deposit all firearms in a safe place (unloaded) till the celebrations are over...
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Re: Celebratory gunfire - a potential safety hazard!

Post by indiaone » Wed Nov 01, 2017 7:20 pm

Celebratory fire is not a good practice, except when only blanks are used.However, at least one country is ahead of us in celebratory firing.Some years ago, while posted in Europe I came accross a case in Serbia, where Celebratory fire at a wedding taking place in the Church compond brought down a 2 seater light aircraft flying overhead.The plane made a crush landing and both pilot and passanger survived.At that time all parts of former Yugoslavia was a disturbed area and arms were freely available. Police investigation indicated that the gun used was a ex-Soviet sniper rifle and the cartridge was a armour piercing bullet.

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