How can you tell gunshots from fireworks?

Question

And who would shoot some up at 1am? Well, I don't live in the richest neighborhood, but still in a small town.

WHICH one would have a much sharper sound?

Answer 1

A much sharper sound.

Answer 2

Actually, a VERY interesting question !!

I don't think the average person could differentiate between the two... though someone with experience might be correct 80 % of the time.

In 1995, Redwood City, California installed a "Shot-Spotter" system that senses gunshots (and eliminates fireworks by their acoustic-fingerprint). Supposedly, there are a half-dozen odd sensors mounted on telephone or light poles throughout the city. Then the system triagulates the shot and can pinpoint the location to within a specific half-block location.

I searched for the site of the company that built this system... Here is THEIR explaination: ShotSpotter Separates Real from False Alarms – Humans often mistake other noises for gunfire. Car backfires, bottle rockets, fire crackers, and even nail guns can confuse “ear” witnesses into thinking they heard gunfire. Every day, thousands of such false alarms are reported to police and first-responders nationwide. ShotSpotter uses sophisticated Acoustic Incident Classification technology to separate the wheat from the chaff. Using a complex network of algorithms, data acquired over more than a decade of deployments, and real-time processing and analysis, ShotSpotter separates incidents into gunfire and other categories, and then reports all of them together with a short audio snippet so that dispatchers can verify the sound.

Why report what isn't gunfire? Because nearby residents, or other police officers, may have heard it, and sometimes having information that an incident was not a gunshot is just as important to police as knowing that something was. In several cases, police have even used ShotSpotter-calculated locations of bottle rockets or other illegal fireworks to prosecute non-gunfire-related crimes.

Answer 3

You really just gotta hear it and all guns make different sounds, well most do. So it's not like you can always tell the difference. I guess freworks is more of a POP! as a gunshot more of a BOOM!

And second part of question: I would.

Answer 4

it would be actual complicated to tell in basic terms with the aid of ear if there are various fireworks going off. quite you will possibly choose journey with the two fireworks and weapons, basically then will you be waiting to nicely known the style between gunshots (the noise relies upon on issues like length of shell, length of barrel, use of silencer, style of gun) and fireworks (many fireworks have an preliminary pop, and then yet another while the "shell" containing the bright demonstrate you notice detonates").

Answer 5

Gunshots are more of a boom.. and fireworks are more of a pop.. but then again a small gun would make a smaller boom so it might be hard to tell.. as for doing it at 1am.. well a rude person might do it!

Answer 6

iam sorry but there is really no difference between firecrackers and gunshots