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An Oklahoma home was damaged last weekend by a howitzer artillery shell fired from a gun range three miles away.
The artillery shell – which is 14.5 inches long and 3.5 inches across – crashed through an exterior wall, hit the ceiling, and damaged another wall while homeowner Gene Kelley and his wife were in another room, reported KOAM-TV.
“It’s unbelievable,” Kelley said. “Unless you were here to see it or see the pictures I’ve got, you would not believe how huge this thing is.”
there are gun enthusiast and a holes of like interest. how can you begin t think safety blindly firind a projectile capable of traveling 3 miles away? he should be charged with reckless indangerment by law enforcement and civil suit by the people who were home in the house he hit.
The shell was fired from a 105mm howitzer at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show, but the gun range owner insists the historic weapon was safely fired by professionals in a downward projection.
“It was not on a level plane, but on a downward trend, pointed downhill in the bottom of a valley,” said Mike Friend, Owner of Fast Machine Gun Shoot. “For that thing to rise and go far northwest of the range, it’s just unheard of.”
“As far as the safety end of everything, we drill every one of our shooters before it ever begins,” Friend said. “We have 30-45 minute drill.”
unless you are on a mountain plateau in the sky at 20,000 feet you can't aim and shoot down for 3 miles the guys lying maybe Pres. needs to send troops to teach gun owners how to use WMD's because that course of 30-45 mins failed big time was it free or just lethally dangerously ignorant?
