• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Quite simple. Eye = verrrrry squishy. Bb pellet (plastic or metal) = resilient. When resilient thing is propelled by compressed air into squishy thing, bad things happen to the squishy thing.

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 days ago

      Ok. I guess I ment if a BB gun taking out your eye realistic? Or is it the same as like a back fire of a gun? If so how come we never hear it talked about with modern stuff?

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        10 days ago

        For the most part, bb guns and pellet guns have been replaced with nerf guns.

        Nerf darts are designed to bounce off eyeballs.

        Growing up, I had a compact pneumatic dart gun that fired actual darts with needle tips. Those could definitely have taken out an eye, and are likely a controlled weapon today.

        • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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          10 days ago

          Just got the image of a nerf darts with the suction cup at the end landing on the eye prolly going to live with me a while thinks for that.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Because why do a news report about a bb gun incident when they can replay the same actual gun violence happening?