OK Gun Range Owner Insists Howitzer Fired Safely After Shell Blasts House 3 Miles Away
Gun rights. The piece is not identified but it is probably an M-101, standard US light artillery from World War II into Vietnam. It is still effective enough that hundreds remain in military service around the world. Caliber is actually 4.1 inches. The range owner’s insistence that it was fired “on a downward trend,” (ie negative elevation) is contrary to the laws of physics. However, this is Oklahoma where the Earth is 6000 years old and climate change is a communard conspiracy, so ballistic data would obviously not be trustworthy either.
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.” No one was hurt, but Kelley said the damage could have been worse if the shell had not hit a tree limb and then the ground before striking his Wyandotte house. 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.
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