How can a pellet gun kill someone?

C B

How can you drown in less than an inch of water?

People are killed in all sorts of ways... pellet guns are hardly the least plausible implement.

River

Tempel shots or eyes shots. Easy way to the brain.

anoldmick

A pellet gun can send a projectile into the eye, which is surrounded by a very thin bony socket. The projectile could easily penetrate into the brain. Also, the bones on the side of the head between the eye and the ear is thinner than the rest of the skull, and a powerful pellet gun could penetrate that. And don't forget, there are actually high-powered airguns of larger than .22 calibre. They're expensive, but a dude protecting his stash of weed is likely to use serious weaponry!

Lily VonSchtupp

It could enter the brain through the eye.
It could open the jugular vein, or carotid artery.
It could have made him go into cardiac arrest.
It could have entered the brain through the ear canal.

Dont get Infected

shoot him in the eye and it goes into the brain and there wasnt any medical attention braught fast enough.. plus pellet guns can break the skin in some cases.... some of them are more then just a single pump gun... ive had 1 that could shoot into a fance far enough so you would have to cut some wood away to even get to it...

Joy K

Several serious places it could hit, but also there are powerful, very accurate air and carbon dioxide powder pellet guns that can do a lot of damage. Often they are made in foreign countries, such as England, where regular guns are outlawed for average citizens.

*****

Some pellet guns have a velocity of over 600 feet/second, so this is ample speed of the pellet to penetrate a man's skull [gray matter and metal doesn't mix well], or the pellet can puncture a main artery, and the guy bleeds to death of internal bleeding. There are many other senarios too numerous to list here.

Beagle Lover

im sure it could if the bullet hits an artery.

james

I think it is possible. Even a needle can kill a man. As long as he was hit on his Achilles' heel (idiomatic expression for the most sensitive/ weakest part of ones body).

kny390

If you fire a pellet gun at close range it can cause a lot of damage. They kill squirrels don't they.

Garacaius

It could go through the eye and into the brain, it could also enter through the ear.

InDyBuD2002

If I can quote Clark W. Griswald from National Lampoons Vacation: "It can lodge under the skin and cause a serious infection". And face it, any infection untreated long enough can result in a slow pain-full death.

johN p. aka-Hey you.

A pea shooter could kill someone if hit the the right spot.

Chris N

head or ear or eye

Cali Cop

It is funny you ask. I just finished an invertigation where a 7 year old boy was killed by his friends, with only a "pellet" gun. They were shooting cans, and he walked in front of them. The parents gave it to them and let them shoot it. They now have to bury their child.

I had to watch as the doctor drill a hole in this kid's skull to relieve pressure from swelling. Not something that I'm likely to ever forget.

Rainy

Maybe shot his eye out.

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