The bullet could have gone through the first person and kept traveling until it hit the person behind the first victim. It's possible, although this incident is sketchy as hell.
Well, there was that actor in the early 80s who offed himself by holding a gun with blanks to his head. I was in cadets at the time; we got a VERY long speech from our range officer about the dangers of blanks after that.
Oh yeah well a blank is basically a round with the bullet taken out and some light wadding (paper, cotton, etc) put in its place to stop all the powder leaking out. And the wadding gets fired.
In most cases it slows down to nothing pretty quickly or is burned up. But at point blank range, a piece of cotton travelling at 700m/s will still fuck you up before it stops.
The bullet could have gone through the first person and kept traveling until it hit the person behind the first victim. It's possible, although this incident is sketchy as hell.
If it was a blank I'd have thought that unlikely.
Like sure they're deadly at point blank but the cotton wad you're firing does slow down a bit.
Well, there was that actor in the early 80s who offed himself by holding a gun with blanks to his head. I was in cadets at the time; we got a VERY long speech from our range officer about the dangers of blanks after that.
Oh yeah well a blank is basically a round with the bullet taken out and some light wadding (paper, cotton, etc) put in its place to stop all the powder leaking out. And the wadding gets fired.
In most cases it slows down to nothing pretty quickly or is burned up. But at point blank range, a piece of cotton travelling at 700m/s will still fuck you up before it stops.
At inches away from the muzzle the expanding gasses will fuck you up.