i think the show myth busters did a show once on this, fired guns up in the air, tried to see the damage to things once they came down, were trying to bust the myth about being killed by a falling bullet
as i recall the conclusion was that any bullet shot in any close to straight up trajectory would possibly cause bruising or a cut if it hit someone on the way down but would be very very unlikely to cause death
my guess is that is a death actually had occured on new years from celebratory gun blasts it was from people shooting them to the horizon and not up.... [[think about it, look at the videos from the middle east with thousands of people firing weapons up in the air, no one drops dead).....
haven't done it in years, but i remember firing a shot gun at new years, it was always up and into a large oak tree.......
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