Danger of no backstops

[Bavarianbrit]

Daily Mail today.
In Atlanta Georgia a young British astrophysicist was shot dead while in bed with his girlfriend when a stray bullet smashed through the wall of her apartment a single bullet had come through an outside wall under the bedroom window, passing through the headboard of Miss Shepard's bed and hitting Dr Willson in the head, leaving a 'giant wound'.
The incident appears to be a random act involving individuals participating in the reckless discharge of firearms.' Shots were still ringing out from an area near a car park about 780ft away.

 

[Bowland blades]

Should read " the danger of letting morons being able to have firearms "

 

[Steff]

… or how to build a proper house with brick walls.

 

[Sampo]

Nothing to do with backstops when it should be 'fools-stop'

 

[Liveonce]

Tragic waste of a life, RIP.

 

[Bowland blades]

… or how to build a proper house with brick walls.

You ever tried shooting modern house brick and block ? This isn't a construction issue its an uneducated idiot with a firearm issue .
A regular deer calibre rifle can punch though a regular modern house wall energy wise

 

[Steff]

You ever tried shooting modern house brick and block ? This isn't a construction issue its an uneducated idiot with a firearm issue .
A regular deer calibre rifle can punch though a regular modern house wall energy wise

I agree with you 100% on the real cause if this sad case. And my remark was perhaps a little out of place, my apologies for this.

As for a deer calibre being capable of passing through a brick wall, well that depends on the wall. A 7x64 could not make it through a wall on my house. Before any questions arise, it was a planned and perfectly safe action.

 

[Bowland blades]

I agree with you 100% on the real cause if this sad case. And my remark was perhaps a little out of place, my apologies for this.

As for a deer calibre being capable of passing through a brick wall, well that depends on the wall. A 7x64 could not make it through a wall on my house. Before any questions arise, it was a planned and perfectly safe action.

There are differences in walks of course, likewise in bullets . Thermalite block and a crappy modern brick ? Very different from 2 ft of granite stones no cavity obviously.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

237.7 metres is not so far actually to lose much energy if it was a rifle round, then going through an American build likelihood of mostly wooden sheet outside walls and then passing through the headboard would be left with lots of residual energy.

 

[User00035]

And to think, when I applied for an FAC air rifle to shoot pigeons out of trees, that an FEO once asked me why I didn't use my .22 rimfire....