Bullets hitting houses in Mt Juliet

[221 Fireball]

Looks like some dummy doesn't understand how far a bullet flies or what an adequate backstop is.

 

It also cracks me up how the media mentions that it could be hunters. Yeah, a hunter shot at game in one direction, in the air, with a rifle, that happened to be in line with 7 houses in a neighborhood. :cool:

 

http://www.wsmv.com/story/26351431/homes-in-mt-juliet-neighborhood-hit-by-stray-bullets

[leroy]

Interestin... I wonder what caliiber and bullet weight they are... I've seen folks peppered with shotgun shot, but never rifle rounds...

 

leroy

[RED333]

I believe the local police said it was 22.

[221 Fireball]

They showed a hole in the drywall, looked pretty big for a .22.

 

One round supposedly passed through the outer wall  of one home and lodged into the opposite wall of the living room. That was in a Mt Juliet newspaper. Almost sounds like FMJ bullets to travel that far and still penetrate like that.

[peejman]

My house and my neighbors house were hit by a few .40 S&W FMJ's a couple years ago.  Thankfully none penetrated our houses.  I heard two hit the brick on the back of my house.  My neighbor found two bullets in his driveway and one hole in the siding.  Seems some folks were shooting 1/4 mile or so away and not using a proper backstop (they were firing into a large wood/brush pile).  Took about a month for the cops to figure out where they were and get it corrected. 

[DaveS]

Squirrel is in season. Legal weapon is .22, .17 RFM, Shotgun and Muzzleloader. Anything else is not permitted. However, I have a new neighbor (whom I've had to set straight) from Texas who was shooting Squirrels out of the trees in his back yard with a .308. That is a No No! No telling where bullets land, and .22 don't leave a big hole at all.

 

Dave