I'm not sure why all the animosity towards simple math... on a gun forum.
If a bullet plowed down through MY roof and MY ceiling, I'd sure as heck like to know what SOB did it. Or at least help the sheriff to piece it together.
Not a damn good thing comes of shooting a firearm over the horizon to parts unknown unless you are aiming at the enemy. Definitely not in the populated CONUS.
Most likely it was some idiot "celebrating" the 4th.
That moron needs to be confronted with the reality that he could've hurt or killed someone.
Here...
I shot an AK into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in a sink
I found the round still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Being a roofer for the last 31 years I have to agree with this. We usually find them still stuck in the roof or plywood. I've to date never seen one clear the plywood roof deck. Mind you, i'm use to seeing small calibers 380, 9mm. 40, fired from near the hood. The only one I remember coming all the way through was on that Block USA building on Palafox across from the city garage. Their roof covering was only one 24 gauge layer of sheet metal. I found the bullet laying by the base board in their showroom. They freaked out. They had know idea what goes up must come down.Sorry, this bullet was not fired straight up and fell straight down to come through you roof! It had to be fired at about 45 - 65 degrees to come through your roof and through the sheet rock!
A bullet of about 30 caliber heading pointy end first will hit terminal velocity of about 300 FPS. Not enough to go through plywood and then through your ceiling also. Just a physics problem that can't be over come. Not saying that the person that fired the shot didn't in fact fire it at a slanted profile to cause harm.
I know what happened, you were wearing that damm shirt again.