In LA, no ammo sales a week before New Years.

[Sully]

Went by Turners in Reseda for first time
since the frenzy started.

They were busy but not as much; but I only went in
as I saw parking.
Saw sign about no ammo sales the week before New Years.
That along with LAPD warning on Nixle, exhorting anyone
not to shoot into air as they say every year there are people hurt.

That kind of shooting is the dumbest, almost as much as
the guy playing Russian roulette with a glock.

Guess a week of no ammo sales will allow restocking.
Perhaps Jan 2nd one should be first in line for ammo?!

Anybody know what the damage stats are
for people hurt this way?

[jyo]

Yeah, they started that years ago---doubt it ever did any good---but there it is...

[joelogic]

People rant about it every year.

[Synergy]

If you see LA Police on New Years Eve with Helmets on, you will understand!

[Chaos47]

Anybody know what the damage stats are
for people hurt this way?

Kinda odd years/stats but what a quick google turned up

Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

[johnny1290]

A bullet shot in the air falls to earth due to gravity. Its not fired at you from heaven, its dropped from whatever height.

I don't want it dropped on my head, but its not particularly deadly.

There's a myth busters on it. They draw the same conclusion.

It couldn't be some crazy conspiracy theory like, oh, gunshot victims *lying* about how they got shot or anything.

[Atlantaboi2012]

Blanks would be awesome but thats illegal too...

[The Gleam]

Went by Turners in Reseda for first time
since the frenzy started.

They were busy but not as much; but I only went in
as I saw parking.

I always thought blocking ammo sales for New Years or 4th of July was stupid especially when on New Year's I still hear hundreds of guns being shot off in LA. It makes no difference and I don't believe people set out to buy ammo just to shoot off a gun in the air on New Year's no matter how stupid they may be. Stupid people will only do it if convenient, ammo is already on hand, and the thought crosses their mind; not actively set out to get ammo to do it. I know because I lived in a neighborhood filled with stupid people.

The only benefit may be in that Turners Reseda won't be so busy tomorrow when I go in to pick up after my 10 day persecution!

[The Gleam]

A bullet shot in the air falls to earth due to gravity. Its not fired at you from heaven, its dropped from whatever height.

I don't want it dropped on my head, but its not particularly deadly.

There's a myth busters on it. They draw the same conclusion.

It couldn't be some crazy conspiracy theory like, oh, gunshot victims *lying* about how they got shot or anything.

True, straight up, straight down, if a perfect vertical. However, speed in one direction does not change speed in other directions, so gravity means little on a bullet that is shot from a firearm with a measurable horizontal plane/angle; and many people that "shoot into the air" do so, not straight up, but often at an angle ( usually because they are drunk ).

The Mythbusters episode made acknowledgement of that as well.

[Sully]

Interesting. I kind of figured as much,
gravity is 32 ft per second squared. But if shot at an angle,
Bullets still have greater velocity.

Chaos47, what does your avitar mean? Mcavoy Brewing used
such a logo on their beer bottles 100 years ago in Chicago.

[Falstaff]

Of course I already knew, but myth busters proved that bullets fall back to earth without enough energy to even break the skin....that's if they're fired straight up, at a certain angle though, around 50 degrees +- bullets retain ballistic energy for the whole flight so those might cause injury, bottom line there is little to no danger posed by falling bullets..

Cue RS with some urban legend police stories about bullets going through the roofs of cruisers...

[Bangzoom]

it will give them time to re stock

[Falstaff]

What kind of person thinks " oh snap foo, New Years is comin' up, I better run down to la tienda and get some bullets, eh Holmes"

Oh wait, we're talkin about LA- yeah, it's prolly a good idea to cut off ammo sales in certain areas...

[Chaos47]

Interesting. I kind of figured as much,
gravity is 32 ft per second squared. But if shot at an angle,
Bullets still have greater velocity.

Chaos47, what does your avitar mean? Mcavoy Brewing used
such a logo on their beer bottles 100 years ago in Chicago.

Its the symbol of chaos.

Thanks for the info, kind of interesting!