Thread: Air Rifle Kills Teenager

I saw a kid on youtube post a vid of shooting his mate in the arm with a gamo break barrel. The pellet went in and blood pumped out - then the site erased the vid. I thought it actually showed something useful for a change.

This sort of thing isnt an unknown science. You can download 'chairgun4' and put in your particulars, then it will tell you exactly how much meat/bone this thing will penetrate. The main thing is the pellet weight/velocity. You can have 1200ft/sec on your rifle box but thats all marketing bullshit. All your gamos and cheap nasty chinese guns are sub 900/sec with medium weight pellets, They're nothing like .22LR in power at all though. They dont need to be - Killing a person is far easier than people believe in reality. I figure, if i can knock over a bunny at nearly 100y with my gutless target .177, then its pretty much lethal to humans and should be treated as such. An English FT shooter once posted an interesting article on sub 12ft/lbs fatalities, found it pretty worrying

Air weapon fatalities.

But certain things happened for sure about this latest death. Somebody loaded that thing with a pellet, somebody pointed a lethal weapon at another person and then the trigger was pulled. If any of that was done accidentally then it really is just semantics as far as the poor deceased kid is concerned. Include them in the FAL system I say. Its the least they can do