This is stupid on the part of the shooter. Firing a weapon without having a clue where that projectile is going is inexcusable to me.
The Arabs do it all the time in the Middle East. That’s how they celebrate.
Make sure of your backstop. Some guy in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn was shooting at sharks, using the Belt Parkway as a backstop and the inevitable happened.
I remember seeing a story on City Confidential (iirc) where a young man was killed by a shot “out of nowhere”. Turned out some idiot was playing Rambo at a nearby shooting range and fire wildly over the backstop and killed the poor guy.
BTW, I am not sure that it was an accident, he might have been tempted to see if he could hit a moving target a mile and a half away. Who in the Hell “cleans” a gun by firing it?
You’re right.
And firing a rifle to clean it?
Maybe times have changed, but I was taught that firing a rifle requires it to be cleaned. To think of all that time I could have saved...
... a muzzle loader at that...
Agreed, FRiend. This was pure negligence on the part of the shooter... and the charge should be “negligent homicide”.