Everytime I heard a bang last night, I said "That's a gun shot!!" But my husband said it wasn't. Do you know the difference? How?
2007-01-01 13:41:04 · 11 answers · asked by C's Wifey 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Around here, it's the number of bangs that gives it away; a single, isolated, but loud bang is usually a gun, or a slow series; a fast bangbangbangbang, and not quite so loud, is fireworks. If you hear something that goes 'boooom' in Texas, pappy got out the shotgun to celebrate!
2007-01-01 13:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Baby'sMom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I can tell. At about 12:15am Christmas Day, my fiance' and I heard 4 gun shots from the street behind us. We called the police. Everyone asked if it was maybe just firecrackers, but we knew it wasn't. Firecrackers seem to have a crackling sound and gun shots have more of a distinctive, echoing sound. We heard firecrackers last night for New Year's and now we definitely know it was gun shots we heard.
2007-01-01 13:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Up an Evolutionary Tree 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my neighborhood is plagued with gunshots so we just grew up knowing the difference. even when I'm in public now as an adult, I can tell if someone's shooting off in a distance. Gunshots have a very distinct firing sound, firecrackers are just "pops". The assault rifles (AK-47's, etc.) especially tend to echo and make a vibration in the night air when they go off.
2007-01-01 13:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by duvaldiva.com 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it's a shotgun, you will feel it, as well as hear it. Firecrackers only make noise. Guns fire bullets. You can FEEL the sound of a shotgun blast like the way you can feel the 'bass' of a rap song. That's the difference.
2007-01-01 13:47:53 · answer #4 · answered by clever nickname 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live and was raised in the projects in Brooklyn and trust me you would know.If you heard a gun shot then you would hear someone say something.They don't have that many firecrackers.Last night I heard a gunshot with someone saying "Ow my foot"my cousin was outside and told me who said who it was and that person was walking around today.So that is how I know.
2007-01-01 13:48:06 · answer #5 · answered by mia19367 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would think of a gunshot as a louder lower sounding "bang", a firecracker as a small high pitched "pop" or "crack".
2007-01-01 13:52:45 · answer #6 · answered by CheesePuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um, well, i think a gun shot is much more louder than firecrackers. and some firecrackers don't go "bang!" well, that's what i think anyway. correct me if i'm wrong. ^_^V
2007-01-01 13:48:55 · answer #7 · answered by Cerra Azizi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate guns but
Some shot guns make a boom! BOOM!! sound.
But it hard to tell cause fireworks have different firepower just like shotguns.
2007-01-01 13:45:46 · answer #8 · answered by Wandering Sage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A gun shot is like "BOOM" real loud... a fire cracker keeps going for a few minutes
2007-01-01 13:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you have ever fired a gun, that would probably be the difference as one example..different bang
2007-01-01 13:43:15 · answer #10 · answered by Tek ~aka~Legs! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋