Mythbusters..

[llanite]

For a late-term baby, gun fire is definitely something they would hear, though I suspect you would not worry about damaging their hearing. Our baby could react to voices and our dog barking at 8 months.

 

[Uncle Mike]

Gerhardt and Robert Abrams, a UF professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology, decided to study the issue using sheep because experiments by other researchers had shown that properties of sound transmission in pregnant women and sheep are similar. Their experiments revealed the womb dampened all but the loudest sounds. Even loud rock concerts are probably not noisy enough to pose a threat to fetal hearing development, Gerhardt says. The research, which has received more than $1 million from the Navy, the National Institutes of Health and the March of Dimes, contributed to federal workplace safety guidelines that today limit the duration of extremely loud noise exposure for pregnant women

Check this out.....

What?..... I SAID...

 

[llanite]

@longdayjake

Historical accounts from the age of wooden ships and iron cannonballs indicate that a passing cannonball would leave bruises across the backs of sailors, and there were always rumors of 'the breath being sucked from their lungs' but never any dismemberment...

I suspect a passing .50bmg round might have a somewhat lesser effect than a passing 24-pounder.

 

[cloudedice]

... people that got shot at with a .50 bmg and it missed them but the bullet tore off their arm just by passing by?

Last night they fired a .50 cal and had the bullet pass within 2 inches of some windows, light bulbs, wine glasses, and other assorted glassware. The glass neither moved nor broke. I don't see how someone's arm could be torn off. (In another episode they stated that a hip could withstand in excess of a ton[2000lbs] of force.)

 

[TurboFC3S]

The "Handgun Horror" episode recently about cylinder gap blast taking off a thumb was about me ... unfortunately. Although since I already lost 1/2 of my thumb, I might as well get a little celebrity out of it

 

[LibShooter]

Their experiment with projectile motion seems to have been conducted at ranges so short as to render negligible even normal bullet drop, let alone quantify motion imparted along an additional axis.

In this case they were busting particular myth in the movie "Wanted." The scene had a bullet curving around an obstacle over a very short range. Investigating bullet drop over longer ranges is an experiment for another show.

 

[TEDDY]

50 cal

that about 50 tearing an arm off is on par with the 45 doing the same.while a 30 is not a 50 when you are standing on a float and the machanic turns the prop and the gun goes of in front of your face,it only make you hard to hear for a while.believe me.no bullet damages you if it does not hit you.

 

[rcmodel]

The smooth bore pistol got me wondering about NFA rules and weather or not they had a tax stamp for it

I bet they already had a visit from the ATF this morning after that show aired last night!!

Anyone who doesn't think a .50 BMG will tear a limb off has obvously never shot anything live with one.

I saw a deer shot on a .50 MG range while I was in the service. One round hit it about mid-belly at 800 yards or so, and the remains looked like a bomb went of inside it.

rc

 

[DHJenkins]

I like the show as entertainment, but I think most of the 'experiments' they do have about as much scientific value as an anecdote.

 

[kingpin008]

Anyone who doesn't think a .50 BMG will tear a limb off has obvously never shot anything live with one.

The question isn't whether or not it'll take your arm off if you're shot with one, it's whether or not a passing .50 cal bullet could do that type of damage.

 

[GonHuntin]

Somebody explain the "NFA violation"???

 

[cchris]

DHJenkins - I agree with that somewhat, some of it is a good basis for scientific testing, but since these guys are just special effects guys, it seems like they don't have the knowledge required to perform meaningful experiments.

I always assumed they were some sort of engineers, but me being one (well, engineering student) is the reason why I've seen every episode of this show.

 

[amd6547]

NFA = National Firearms Act. By smoothboring that barrel, they created a sawed off shotgun.

 

[GonHuntin]

NFA = National Firearms Act. By smoothboring that barrel, they created a sawed off shotgun.

I know what the NFA is, I've studied it extensively........I guarantee you that reaming the barrel smooth on a 1911 does NOT create a SBS (short barreled shotgun)........a SBS is made from......of all things......a SHOTGUN.


Again, what, exactly is the NFA violation????

 

[PT1911]

a gun barrel with no rifling is considered a shotgun barrel whether or not there is a shell available to fit it... for this reason, it is illegal to have a less than 18 inch non-rifled barrel.

 

[Tadman]

Quote:
Their experiment with projectile motion seems to have been conducted at ranges so short as to render negligible even normal bullet drop, let alone quantify motion imparted along an additional axis.

In this case they were busting particular myth in the movie "Wanted." The scene had a bullet curving around an obstacle over a very short range. Investigating bullet drop over longer ranges is an experiment for another show.

Point taken.

 

[GonHuntin]

a gun barrel with no rifling is considered a shotgun barrel whether or not there is a shell available to fit it...

Show me the LAW that backs up this claim........

 

[CleverNickname]

A smooth bore "handgun" is not a short-barreled shotgun, it's classified as "Any other weapon."

The term “any other weapon” means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.

for this reason, it is illegal to have a less than 18 inch non-rifled barrel

Wrong. It's just illegal to attach it to a firearm without having paid the appropriate tax.

 

[GonHuntin]

A smooth bore "handgun" is not a short-barreled shotgun, it's classified as "Any other weapon."

Read the definition again.......

a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell

I doubt that anyone can argue that a 1911 is designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell.........

Yes, I know CCI makes "shotshells" in many pistol cartridges, but those are not "shotgun shells" because they aren't designed to be fired in a shotgun....I doubt even the BATF would say that reaming a barrel constitutes redesigning to fire a fixed shotgun shell.........


Now, if you were to ream the barrel smooth on a Taurus Judge that IS designed to fire a fixed shotshell.......you would have an "any other weapon"...........

 

[AKElroy]

Kingpin, the fluids transmit the shockwaves direct to the baby's underdeveloped ears. our pediatrician warned us of the same thing, and he was a shooter.

Off topic, but 100% correct. Protect the developing ears, please.

 

[PT1911]

Wrong. It's just illegal to attach it to a firearm without having paid the appropriate tax.

Ok.. correction, is it illegal to have a less than 18 inch nonrifled barrel on a weapon that was not registered prior to 1986(?) AND for which you are not paying the necessary tax.

that better?

 

[GonHuntin]

Again, please show me the law that backs up this claim.....


And, what does 1986 have to do with it???

 

[Tadman]

I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV but I beleive a smoothbore pistol would fall under the definitions of “any other weapon”
26 U.S.C. § 5845 of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5801-72

 

[GonHuntin]

One more time.....

a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell

if it isn't designed to redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell.......by definition, it ain't an AOW........

 

[PT1911]

http://www.titleii.com/BardwellOLD/nfa_faq.txt

my apologies to all for my prior misinterpretation of AOW
read for yourself... 1986 was the cut off date for the registration of Class 3 weapons.. Full autos, shot barreled shotguns, and smoothbore handguns are included in this groupl. Therefore, any firearm fitting that description that was not registered prior to may 19, 1986 are illegal to own. Also, anyone who owns one that was registered must also pay a tax and carry proof of registration.

Has it been spelled out well enough..