I am no gun expert. But we had high school fraternities when I was in my teens which were 15 to 20 year old guys just like college frats but no college.
Anyway at 15 a rival fraternity shot at our frat house rented at Point Breeze NY.
They broke in a beat one of the guys really bad and I heard bullets whizzing by in the back..no one was hit .They were hitting hedges and plants near me . But they missed .
These were .38 caliber . Shot from inside and went through ALL the walls in then out then next room then out the back. These were not block construction - but still - I was shocked when I saw it.
BUT when I went back in afterwards - the bullets went through the walls and out the back of the cottage !
38 Handgun !
The POINT - So when you see on TV people shooting at each other and hiding behind a wall or two - this probably will not work !
.3 miles away would NOT be a bounce off the ground except MAYBE a freak slug off a rock - but highly unlikely.
But magnum loads and especially rifles even a 22 long can easily go half a mile or more.
I like Florida - but was surprised that it became an open carry state !¿
Anyway there are fewer shootings on the highway than I thought but always kids seem to find the guns in the home and there are heartbreaking stories.
It’s pretty clear that you’re not an experienced shooter.
Most experienced shooters know that drywall will not stop a pistol round. The high velocity of a small rifle round, like a 55g 5.56, will often cause the projectile to break up in drywall, unless it’s a heavier bullet, or steel cored. Larger calibers like .308, will punch right through drywall with no problem.
Most experienced shooters understand the difference between cover, that is, something that will stop a bullet, and concealment, that is something behind which your adversary cannot see you, but may or may not stop a bullet.
Clearly, in a gun fight, cover is preferable.
Most experienced shooters, and anyone with a modicum of common sense, would know that what’s depicted on television or in Hollywood is inaccurate when it comes to firearms.
As far as the distance is for projectiles, Magnum rounds aren’t a whole lot better than regular pistol rounds, the ballistic coefficient on something like a 44 magnum is abysmal, and the bullet velocity really drops off with distance. Most pistol rounds go about half a mile, while rifle rounds, and by that I mean real rifle, not 22 long rifle, can travel over a mile. While you cannot aim fire at those distances, the bullet still carries enough velocity to do damage on impact.
I don’t know what you mean by “Florida became an open carry state”. Florida is one of many states that changed from “May issue” “shall issue“ when it comes to concealed carry permits. What that means is that in order to deny somebody a permit, the issuing authority has to have good reason.
It used to be that the issuing authority didn’t have to have any reason to denies somebody a permit, and it was completely at their discretion, that’s what “May issue“ means - that for no good reason, the sheriff, Department of fish and wildlife, whatever it happens to be, can simply deny somebody the right to carry for whatever whim they feel.
I think the change to “shall issue“, in which the issuing authority has to show good cause to deny a permit, is a lot more fair.
Finally, and I mean this, sincerely, if you were in a fraternity that used to shoot at each other, you were actually in a gang, with thugs as “brothers”.
There is nothing fraternal, or academic, about young men shooting at each other to resolve their differences.
