The death of a thousand pellets
Two men will face a Sydney court today charged with intending to murder a youth who was shot with airgun.
An airgun!
It would take some clever musketry to murder someone with an airgun. Surely mass (or lack there of) and kinetic energy factors would almost preclude all but the closest shots from endangering an adult male.
Does any reader know of an adult male killed by a .177 inch pellet?
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if you ingest enough of them it might do it.
Not questioning your intent…for I know that you know weapons as well as I, but I have a Crossman pump pellet gun that if pumped up sufficiently has about the same effect as a .22 round at close range, in my estimation. It will easily penetrate 1/2 inch plywood which approximates, I suppose, a human skull.
OK Wallace – I stand accused of being flippant but you must admit an airgun seldom becaomes exhibit A at a murder trial.
Actually quite a few people have been killed by an airgun. Most of the deaths have been kids mucking around, but not all.
For a few such cases, see this BBC article:
Families press for airgun crackdown
I think thoust shoot the messenger there Kev.
I understand ones natural reaction to be flippant, the article lends itself to such comment.
However, as the element of “intent” is a vital and necessary part of the proof of attempted murder, you would have to look at the intelligence quota of those charged. For it may be they have admitted to, or there is evidence of such intent by those interplanetary Einsteins who chose such a weapon to attempt such a crime.
Then again, I guess the intented victim isn’t complaining to much. At least their still here to tell their story.