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[ChooChoo404]

How Gun Blasts From Indoor Shooting May Cause Brain Injuries

The Times tested the blast waves of several popular civilian guns at an indoor range and found that repeated firing could add up to potentially harmful exposure.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I dodon'have a subscription to NY Times. Can you give us the gist of it?

 

[Hogpatrol]

New York Times. I wouldn't expect anything else from that far left rag.

 

[Mekaniks]

I cant read the full article, but from the click bait headline it appears to make a good case for passage of the Hearing Protection Act...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/404/text

 

[ChooChoo404]

Indoor shooting contributes to blast exposure more than outdoor. Blast exposure to the head is harmful and may be cumulative.

The larger the caliber, the closer the muzzle to the shooter’s head, the greater the exposure.

There is a time/rep component to hitting possibly harmful thresholds. More shots faster equals more possible damage.

Hear all the maybes? That’s because there is no real science-based standard. Uncle is working on it.

Muzzle devices that mitigate blast seem to help.

Work in progress.

I’ve been shooting 375 and 470 indoors. And 9, 45, 22, 223, 257, 30-06, 300

Thinking I oughta take the big stuff outside.

Valuable information, and well-executed journalism.

 

[ftrovato]

Just stand on the line at an indoor range and you can feel the increased concussion when someone else fires.

Not sure that politics or Left Vs Right reporting plays a role in this one. Even simple me with my old hard head can feel the significantly increased concussion at an indoor range.

 

[ChooChoo404]

I have a good nose:

Not a whiff of politics or bias.

Straight reportage, thoroughly executed.

 

[Flbt]

Indoor shooting contributes to blast exposure more than outdoor. Blast exposure to the head is harmful and may be cumulative.

The larger the caliber, the closer the muzzle to the shooter’s head, the greater the exposure.

There is a time/rep component to hitting possibly harmful thresholds. More shots faster equals more possible damage.

Hear all the maybes? That’s because there is no real science-based standard. Uncle is working on it.

Muzzle devices that mitigate blast seem to help.

Work in progress.

I’ve been shooting 375 and 470 indoors. And 9, 45, 22, 223, 257, 30-06, 300

Thinking I oughta take the big stuff outside.

Valuable information, and well-executed journalism.

Wonder how that works with a civil war cannons?
Been around a few during reinactments and some just shooting.
You can fell the shot.

 

[Red Leg]

As a retired artilleryman, I can't seem to obsess over "blast" effect in an indoor range.

 

[Hogpatrol]

I have a good nose:

Not a whiff of politics or bias.

Straight reportage, thoroughly executed.

All reporting is biased as are all reporters. The word agenda comes to mind with this tripe. How about "proof that indoor ranges are bad, let's get the government to close them". 79 trips around the sun, I have a nose also.

 

[ftrovato]

All reporting is biased as are all reporters. The word agenda comes to mind with this tripe. How about "proof that indoor ranges are bad, let's get the government to close them". 79 trips around the sun, I have a nose also.

Have you been concussed one to many times at an indoor range?

Just kidding no need to retaliate... ;-0)

 

[Hogpatrol]

Have you been concussed one to many times at an indoor range?

Just kidding no need to retaliate... ;-0)

A few years ago on a crap weather winter day, my next door neighbor invited me to accompany him to an indoor range he frequents. In over sixty five years of shooting big and small stuff, never been to one.
After about fifteen minutes I was ready to go. For me, the, noise and "blast" was not something I associated with the enjoyment of shooting nor was the distance to the target.
These pussified articles about the dangers of everything from sitting on the couch watching tv to offshore fishing in small boats, to flying personal aircraft, I get the feeling we are fast morphing in to a nation of pusillanimous, risk averse males. It's just plain sad.
We now return you to our regular programming.

 

[ftrovato]

A few years ago on a crap weather winter day, my next door neighbor invited me to accompany him to an indoor range he frequents. In over sixty five years of shooting big and small stuff, never been to one.
After about fifteen minutes I was ready to go. For me, the, noise and "blast" was not something I associated with the enjoyment of shooting nor was the distance to the target.
These pussified articles about the dangers of everything from sitting on the couch watching tv to offshore fishing in small boats, to flying personal aircraft, I get the feeling we are fast morphing in to a nation of pusillanimous, risk averse males. It's just plain sad.
We now return you to our regular programming.

As much as I enjoy shooting 9mm & 45 acp at close range (that my local outdoor range doesn't offer), I cant do the indoor range thing for the reasons you mention.

A headache for 2 days after shooting for me is not fun.

NOW, since we're giving trophies out for everything these days, I believe that I earned one for surviving an indoor range on not one but two separate occasions!

 

[Russ16]

I don’t like the NYT but I do believe shooting indoors has more impact than outdoors. I’ve done it a few times and anything more than about a .38 special is miserable. Much less if the guy next to you is hammering away with some AR with a muzzle brake. I just won’t go back.