I honestly had no idea that this was an issue in the US.

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"Holiday gunfire nearly kills Cumberland woman A Cumberland County man wants people to stop using gunfire to celebrate holidays after a stray bullet tore through his bedroom on New Year's Eve and barely missed hitting his wife. Bob Marriott said Monday that he and his wife were watching television during the final minutes of 2010 when the gunshot shattered a bedroom window. "We heard 'bang,' and the wife felt some sort of breeze go by her ear," Marriott said. "She had that startled look in her face." The bullet ended up in a closet wall, and Marriott's wife remains shaken by the incident. "If she'd been sitting in this chair, maybe a little bit over – six inches – she'd have been taken out," Marriott said. He said he grabbed his gun and ran outside to find the shooter, but he didn't see anybody. Investigators with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said they don't believe the couple was targeted, and they are treating the case as random gunfire. They had no suspects as of Monday evening. Marriott said he has heard gunshots in the neighborhood before, including previous New Year's Eve and Fourth of July celebrations. He said the stray bullet was probably gunfire to ring in the new year. "This was not up in the air. This was somebody who maybe had a misfire or whatever," he said. Spokeswoman Debbie Tanna said the sheriff's office gets complaints of shots fired every New Year's Eve, and she said Marriott's case should remind people of the danger of random gunfire. "Those bullets have to land somewhere," Tanna said. Marriott said it's only a matter of time before such celebrations end up in a fatality. "It has to stop because somebody's going to get killed," he said. "Fireworks are great. The color in the sky is great. But guns firing? No.""

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/8873596/

1/3/2011 7:48:23 PM

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=607155

1/3/2011 7:51:51 PM

Afghanistan, NC

1/3/2011 8:03:46 PM

I thought this thread was about Alfredo Simon

1/3/2011 8:14:16 PM

Celebratory holiday gunfire kills thousands of birds in Arkansas

1/3/2011 8:17:08 PM

Last new year's eve a kid in Atlanta was killed when struck by a bullet that came through a church ceiling. This year they were actively arresting people and charging them with celebratory gunfire.

1/3/2011 8:17:47 PM

This only works way out the country where us rednecks live. If the bullet makes it through 40 acres of trees, hills, and who knows what else it was just your day

1/3/2011 9:17:12 PM

Welcome. To. Afghanistan.

1/3/2011 9:21:42 PM

so apparently new year's eve is a good time to snipe someone..... it might get considered random gunfire with no evidence

1/3/2011 9:26:40 PM

i've done it on for new year's before. always used a shotgun with #8 birdshot. pretty much harmless.

1/3/2011 9:27:29 PM

We practice celebratory shooting at home, but home is miles away from anything and we don't shoot straight up, we shoot at something relevant. After Halloween and Thanksgiving, it's pumpkins, for example.

1/3/2011 9:29:27 PM

Usually it is the opposite. Most Holidays RWECC 911 gets flooded with "shots fired" calls that end up being fireworks. Especially in Hispanic neighborhoods. They love them some damn fireworks.

1/3/2011 9:34:08 PM

Afghanistan, NC

1/3/2011 9:44:36 PM

The title for wral is all wrong

No one gut hurt at all whata waste of reading time

1/3/2011 10:37:53 PM

whats the range on a pistol bullet if its fired on a ballistic trajectory like a mortar?

1/3/2011 10:44:58 PM

haha there are definitely people who do this in eastern NC. on multiple occasions i remember hearing rapid gunfire and an occasional what must've been dynamite blast ha.

but yea, out in the country, so not really worried about taking stray bullets.

1/4/2011 12:23:22 AM

Topical again.

1/2/2012 2:24:57 PM

Quote :

"i've done it on for new year's before. always used a shotgun with #8 birdshot. pretty much harmless."

Yes, the physics depend on the specifics. But to be theoretical here, it's only a matter of bullet parameters and proximity. For a gun like that, you still need to be a sufficient distance from people.

In the case of larger calibers and more powerful guns, it's possible that all trajectories are dangerous if they hit.

1/2/2012 2:29:58 PM

When was the last time you had a desk pop?

hmmm December 2003

1/2/2012 3:57:19 PM

fucking white trash hillbillies

1/2/2012 4:08:37 PM

Johnston County......

1/2/2012 7:48:58 PM