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smart Happens. Hi, I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, where do bullets go when guns are fired straight up into the air. You may have seen television programs where people who are celebrating fire guns or pistols or machine guns straight up into the air as part of the celebration, the saying what goes up must come down as an appropriate starting point for our conversation here. If you fire a gun into the air, the bullet will travel up to a mile high, depending on the angle of the
shot and the power of the gun. Once it reaches its apogee, the bullet will fall. Air resistance limits its speed, but bullets are designed to be fairly aerodynamic, so the speed is still quite lethal. If the bullet happens to hit someone in rural areas, the chance of hitting someone is pretty remote because the number of people is low, but in crowded cities the probability rises dramatically and people
get killed quite often by stray bullets. Therefore, most major cities have laws in place to try to keep people from shooting guns into the air in celebration. For more on this and thousands of other topics, is It How staff works dot Com? Streaming TV shows and movies directly to your home is a breeze with Netflix. As a Netflix member, you can instantly watch TV and movies on your PC, Mac, mobile device, or television. Get a free
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