My friend had a bullet come thur his ceiling. How did this happen, What kind of bullet, any similar experience

Question

What kind of bullet would it take, .22 .38 ?

Answer 1

this is a common occurence during the 4th or new years, but you get guys that shoot guns in the air to celebrate and as the saying goes, "what ever goes up, must come down."
I have been at two separate work locations where bullets have ended up in my bosses offices after nights of unrest.

Answer 2

Well, there is no way that we can tell what bullet this was! How it happened is someone shot, and gravity simply pulled it down to your friends ceiling. Yes, similar experience. A couple of deer seasons ago, my neighbor had a bullet come through his son's wall, luckily, the boy was not in his room at the time.

Answer 3

Having spent most of my early life in New Orleans as well, I can tell you that on New Years and other occasions (maybe a new shipment of crack or something) people routinely fire into the air and the number of deaths, injuries, vehicle and roof penetrations is quite large.

In the late 1980s I was standing outside of a well-known Uptown drinking establishment with four of NOPD's finest and two EMT friends, watching an illegal fireworks display no less, when one of the officers felt a pain around his kidney area. He was rubbing the pain and came up with a bloody hand.

The EMTs removed his jacket, shirt and body armor and found that a bullet had struck him in his shoulder, went through leather jacket, duty shirt, the mesh shoulder area of his vest (no protection here, just mesh) and his t-shirt, entered his skin, travelled down his back just under the skin and come out just above the 'love handles' fat around the kidneys. The bullet was a perfectly intact 7.62x39 copper jacketed fmj and it was in his t-shirt. He was in very little pain, said he just felt a sting. You could see a bruise line running down his back. He was happy to get some time off work it seemed, with his friends predicting that he would get 5 or 8 weeks off with pay.

Answer 4

I don't want to generalise here, but if this happened in a poor, 3rd world country it's most likely a 7.62x39 round. It seems to be a fairly common occurance for people to shoot their AK's into the air in these countrys. Everything from a successful coup to Jose's recent sexual exploit warrants a volley of AK fire into the air.These bullets come down eventually somewhere, and unless the shooter was able to fire his weapon perfectly straight up, the bullets would still have enough velocity on their return trip to the ground to penetrate a roof, or a person. The steeper the angle of trajectory, the less chance there is of the bullet having enough velocity to do damage.

Answer 5

Could be any bullet....an arrow could pierce a sub-floor with ease.

Someone shot from above more than likely..

My brother in law pulled the trigger on a .22 of his dad's that was stored for 12+ years and it was loaded yet. Shot thru the floor up into the kitchen and nearly shot his mother in law.

Funny now, but not then. Proves my father in law was and is an absolute moron with guns.

Answer 6

I'm going out on a limb here but I would guess that it was made from lead and possibly had a copper jacket
y'all made the person upstairs mad and they thought well I'll get them and he fired through the floor or it was an alien invasion and they missed with their kroptonite bullet good thing you were not superman because it wouldn't take a direct hit to affect you

Answer 7

Regardless of what mythbusters did or said, bullets fired in the air come down with enough force to injury and even kill. In the Nineties a .32 caliber bullet fired during New Year returned and came through the hood of my patrol car. Two years ago my friend recovered a 7.62 round that embedded itself in the hood of his wife's car, again the morning after New Year. Apparently fiberglas is toughter than steel; this one didn't go clean through and through like the one that hit the steel hood of my patrol car.

Didn't mythbusters once try to tell people that Mr. Ed (the talking Palomino) was actually a Zebra? They kinda lost their credibility with me way back then. Most country boys can tell the difference between a hoss n a... Zebra. LOL!

Best.

H

Answer 8

That's actually a good question in a way. Just guessing here, but if you shoot a bullet straight up, it should lose maximum velocity once it reaches it's apogee and then when it comes down, it should only reach terminal velocity which shouldn't be enough to come through a roof. The only other way would be for a bullet to be fired at an arc where it still maintained velocity, or if it was shot downward.

Answer 9

Probably someone living upstairs slipped up and shot a round downward thru you friends ceiling. Many different caliber firearms are capable of penetrating a ceiling and shooting thru to lower levels.Without additional information it is impossible to know. I have also seen a bullet someone shot penetrate a house roof and attic from outside and still came thru the ceiling into a living room area..The possibilities are quite endless.

Pretty much any bullet from a 22 LR up is capable of penetrating a ceiling..38's,45's,44 Mag,357 Mag. ANY Rifle caliber bullets etc

Answer 10

It could be any caliber. It use to happen often during New Years Eve here in New Orleans about a decade ago,when people fire their guns into the air to celebrate New Years. A few people have actually gotten killed.Most handgun round when fired into the air will at some point stop ascending, and start coming back down at still avery high velocity, enough for it to go through some roofs, and in the case here, through people's skulls.