When you shoot a gun straight up in the air what happens to the bullet?

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I know it goes back down but how long will it take for it to come back down and will it come back down to the same spot? Fill me in Thanks
 
It goes as straight as you shot it, then even the slightest bit of wind will carry it off course a little bit. then it will start to fall again. when it does, it could seriously injure someone or even kill them. but the chances of that happening are prettty slim unless you're firing like an entire drum mag for an M60 or something. i wouldn't do it none the less though.
 
If you shoot it straight up in the air it will continue along that path without interference unless the is a factor such as wind.

Once it's run out of kinetic energy, gravity will pull it back down to earth and the bullet will land on the same spot.
 
Well if you use a 50 cal. round it would go around a mile into the air, assuming that the shot was perfectly straight up, if there was no wind and the earth was not rotating it would come back to the same place being it could not break the gravitational pull of the earth. A shotgun slug would go around 5oo yards before reversing course. There is many factors in place, when you change the size and weight of the round you will have very different results.
 
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