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Living in a country where guns are not common, my first thought after a gunshot would probably be "what was that? did something fall over?"
by blowski 4y ago
Living in a country where guns are not common, my first thought after a gunshot would probably be "what was that? did something fall over?"
- kevingadd 4y agoYeah, and it was a homemade gun so it doesn't look or sound like a regular one (certainly not like one from movies or TV)
- jeanlucas 4y agoMost movies or TV don't do realistic gun sounds anyways
- tasuki 4y agoAren't speakers the limitation here? I'm not sure in what way movies or TV aren't realistic, but I'm pretty sure your speaker has less of a punch than a gun.
- thfuran 4y agoA nearby gunshot is loud enough to be painful.
- drexlspivey 4y agoThe bank gunfight in Heat (1995) is still the apex of gunfight sound design
- sgjohnson 4y agoThat shouldn't actually matter too much. If the projectile went supersonic, there would still be a sonic boom. If it didn't go supersonic, I'd actually expect it to be louder than a subsonic round from a production firearm due to less efficient design. (kind of how revolvers are almost always louder than pistols, due to the fact that the chamber isn't completely sealed, so pressure can start escaping before the projectile leaves the barrel) But judging by the clip, the projectile didn't go supersonic, just based on the sheer power of it (Abe collapsed instantly). You could get hit a dozen times with a small energy projectile and still stay standing (for a couple of seconds at least).
- saiya-jin 4y ago> You could get hit a dozen times with a small energy projectile and still stay standing I don't think so - the main reason (apart form saving weight) why we have small fast projectiles in rifles (instead of huge heavy balls like before) is hydrostatic shock. Also faster bullets penetrate armor better but that's another topic. Projectile crossing certain speed threshold (for mostly liquid bodies we all have) will produce massive temporary cavity in the body, and shockwave from this will ripple through surrounding tissue. Imagine 7.5mm wide bullet blasting 10-15cm hole within the body, although entry point is not much bigger than bullet. Just watch any shooting video with ballistic gels, they do tend to slow it down to see how much damage bullet is doing. Any organ will become mushy pieces and goo. Even currently standard military 5.56mm is capable of this from close distance, if its not slowed/fractured by some big bones. And they are phasing it out for bigger and similarly fast (if not faster) cartridge for all these reasons.
- sph 4y agoI had that same thought watching the recent Chicago shooting footage. I have never heard a rifle in real life, they certainly don't sound like movies and if I had been sitting nearby it would have taken me a while to tell this is a flee situation.
- WatchDog 4y agoIf you have only heard a gun firing from a video, it sounds much different in person. A lot of microphones do a very poor job of capturing the sound, and even the best recordings can't capture just how loud guns can be.
- adastra22 4y agoFor those who are wondering, it sounds like someone clapping, but louder. Yet not as loud as Hollywood imagines.
- aetherson 4y agoUh, no. Guns are really, really loud. Much louder than you get from TV and movies, which after all can't play sounds loud enough to damage your hearing. Source: have fired a fair number of guns.
- sklargh 4y agoFor non gun users - I recommend watching the heist/ambush scene in Heat at a painful volume. This is a reasonable simulation of the loudness.
- dusted 4y agome too, I've never even heard a real gun shot, not anywhere
- prmoustache 4y agoMy first reaction would be to look for a bicycle/car tire that blew up.
- dredds 4y agoVideo shows the guy standing on the far side of the busy road behind Abe, and the perp was taken down about half way across it. The loud boom and smoke resembled a car backfiring much more than any gun, so not really surprised the lack of immediate alarm. Kids backfiring sports cars would be a commonplace rebellious act in Japan.
- helloworld11 4y agoLiving in a country where gunfire is very common, the opposite starts to happen: even when you hear what you rapidly realize isn't gunfire but only somewhat similar (firecrackers, cars backfiring, etc), your first reaction is to assume gunshots or automatic rifle fire before assessing what you heard more carefully.
- Hamuko 4y agoApparently some of the people that were close to the shooting in Highland Park during the Fourth of July initially thought that the gunshots were fireworks.