Not so much. Terminal velocity on a falling non-stabilized bullet is probably around 70MPH. It would hurt, but it wouldn’t kill you.
Gentlemen,
This is going way off this thread track but......Almost all bullets remain stabilized even if they are fired straight up. They will arch over and continue to fly point first. Even a short blunt bullet like that fired from a 9mm handgun will come back to earth at lethal velocity. Shannon's Law was passed here in AZ in 1999 after she was killed by a 9mm handgun bullet that was coming straight down. It took several minutes to figure out what the hell happened as the bullet went straight down into the top of her head and her hair covered the bullet hole.
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Shannon Smith, who would have entered Xavier College Preparatory in the fall, spent June 14, 1999, at home. From noon to 9 p.m., Shannon talked off and on with her best friend, both on the phone and online. Between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m., Shannon was on the phone with another friend when she said she heard what sounded like a "car accident or something" out on Camelback Road. Shannon told her friend she was going to go out into her back yard to see if she could see anything. She put her friend on hold and never came back. The friend finally hung up around 10 p.m.
Shannon's father, Otis, had been watching television when he noticed the red light flashing on the family room phone around 10:35 p.m. He went to her room to tell her to hang up. He looked for Shannon inside the home before finding her outside, laying face up in the grass, with a portable phone about three feet from her body.
Otis tried to revive his daughter with CPR until firefighters arrived. Shannon's mother, Lory, rode in the ambulance with her to a nearby hospital.
The teen was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
"Oh my god, I can't believe she's dead," a distraught Lory Smith told Otis when he arrived at the hospital.
A single bullet had struck Shannon on the top of her head. Police believe it was fired straight up within a mile of Shannon's home. Several residents reported hearing gunfire the night Shannon was killed, but no suspects ever emerged.
A year after Shannon's death, in July 2000, the Legislature enacted Shannon's Law, a measure that makes firing a gun into the air a felony.
Investigator
Phoenix police Detective A.R. Scott.
New technology's role in this case
Police have the bullet that was removed from Shannon's brain during an autopsy. The markings on the bullet would be unique to the gun it was fired from, believed to be one of four models of 9mm semiautomatic handguns. Over the years, police have tested numerous guns that have come into their property room. But none has been linked to the bullet.
