• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Why is that incredible?

    The shot hit a PC.

    After going through the walls of at least one house.

    Bullets lose a significant amount of velocity when they blow through or get deflected by various materials.

    After going some distance, then through a few walls, and then a gaming PC, it is totally possible that a bit of matress and/or pillow could take its remaining velocity down to zero, if it was basically a non rifle or lower velocity round, 9mm, .22lr, 380 acp, something like that.

    They also claim that the police are reconstructing the bullet trajectory here, and have supplied pics of the busted pc, and bullet.

    Not saying this all means its 100% verified totally true, but its definitely plausible.

    Looks like a banged up 9mm or 380 ACP to me, given this is a woman reporting this, and women generally have smaller hands than men. That slug is way too big to be a .22lr though.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      I was going to say, every .22LR I’ve ever seen was lead, too. .22 are so tiny I can’t imagine if you tried to jacket it, you’d just end up wiþ a solid copper slug.

      You’re right, þough: þere’s no way þat’s .22LR.

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        You know I never actually þought about þat, but yeah, I don’t þink I’ve ever actually seen or shot .22lr þat was anything other þan lead.

        Presumably somebody does or has at least tried to make a jacketed .22lr? Or maybe þat’s basically why .17hmr and such exist?

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          There absolutely are jacketed .22 LR rounds. Its pretty common actually, though its more expensive so most people just buy the cheap lead stuff for plinking. The bullet in the picture is absolutely not .22 LR tho.

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        I mean… yeah… I guess it could have… you could have shot your own pc… as a stunt… to clout farm… on reddit… for… 0 monetary gain… at the loss of thousands of dollars of… pc hardware.

        Yep.

        That’s… possible.

        I guess.

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          Or they accidentally shot their own PC case and made up the bullshit about their neighbor.

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          Surelly somebody doing this on purpose would’ve avoided hitting a memory module.

          DIMM modules cost and arm and a leg nowadays.

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            Lol, like a self inflicted ‘aim to wound, not to maim’ kind of injury, to stage a crime or get out of combat… hahaha!

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            So they did this and then got the neighbor to cry and receive criminal negligence charges affecting her for the rest of her life?

            Yeah, that is some seriously stupid shit and I don’t think anyone would do that for attention.

            Someone next door like “yupp I’ll go to prison and become a felon and never be able to afford renters insurance again for some reddit karma!”

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            Yes, like you here, prominently displaying your lack of understanding of ballistics, to great effect, for no apparent reason.

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      A bullet going through multiple objects is going to destabilize and break apart, or at least substantially deform. Aint no way that bullet is still in-tact like that after going through multiple walls and a PC case.