The actor, who was shooting from the muzzle, got hit by a revolver bullet. Fans must have been sad. However, now they are said to be fine. He is in the hospital and will be discharged soon, but a big question has arisen as to how this bullet was fired. If experts are to be believed, the revolver cannot fire if it falls. Yes, there is some message about the pistol. If the pistol is loaded, that is, its chamber is filled with bullets and the hammer is cocked, then in some situations a bullet can fire if it falls. If the pistol is completely fine, it will not fire if it falls. Yes, if it is very old and the spring of its hammer has become loose then the bullet can fire.
what do experts say
Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police of Uttar Pradesh Police, DK Sharma, says, “I have never seen such an incident in my entire service when a revolver fell and a bullet was fired from it.” He further explains that the revolver has a pulley. Along with operating that pulley, a good amount of strength is required to operate the striking hammer to fire the bullet. For this reason, a lot of pressure has to be applied to press the trigger. Yes, for a pistol, some people say that a bullet must have been fired from the pistol when it was loaded and charged.
Experts say that even when a properly charged pistol is thrown, it does not fire. That means it doesn’t fire. If we talk about revolver, it got this name because the bullets in it are loaded in a pulley. This pulley rotates every time the trigger is pressed and brings the bullet in front of the hammer. Then the hammer strikes the tip of the bullet. Due to this, the gunpowder gets ignited and with the pressure, the iron or other metals filled in the bullet rapidly travel and hit the target. That means the revolver itself got its name from this revolving wheel.
Good pressure is also required to press the trigger.
A current police officer also confirmed that the revolver cannot fire. On the condition of anonymity because he is in the service, he says – “If a revolver is given to a small child, he cannot fire the revolver even after applying the index fingers of both the hands, because of the difficulty in taking the hammer back and turning the pulley. His fingers don’t have the strength to even drive.” In such a situation, the idea of a loaded revolver falling and firing a shot is inconceivable. Yes, if the spring of the hammer is very weak then the hammer can hit the bullet only when it is pulled back by hand. Like people do in movies, they put the hammer first. Then they fire.
It is also beyond comprehension that Govinda should have kept the hammer pulled back, because there is no need to do this in a revolver. On pressing the trigger the hammer will move back and the pulley will rotate. Then with the same pressure the pin of the hammer will strike the bullet with a jerk. Apart from this, there is no other mechanism in the revolver. Yes, to stop all this, a safety lock is installed in all the weapons. Even if the lock is open, the entire process will have to be done with fingers. That means nothing will happen without the finger.
Types of weapons and their operation
Broadly speaking there are three types of weapons. One in which bullets are fired repeatedly. Like muskets, guns or illegal types of knives. Whose bullet is loaded directly into its barrel and fired by pulling the hammer. Then next time the pill will have to be filled and the same process will have to be repeated. In this, another type of weapons are those which have a magazine and many bullets are loaded in it, but every time to fire, the hammer has to be charged and then the cartridge cartridge has to be taken out. The second type of weapons are those which, once charged, can be fired as many times as there are bullets in the magazine. The weapon itself does the work of removing the cartridge and charging the next bullet. These are called semi-automatic. The third type of weapons are those in which the bullet is charged once after inserting it in the magazine, but on pressing the trigger in one go, all the bullets will be fired simultaneously.
In India, licenses are available only for weapons that charge and fire repeatedly or are semi-automatic. Automatic weapons are used only by the army and security forces. Pistol mostly falls in semi-automatic category, whereas revolver has a different category. There is no need to charge them, but all the bullets in the wheel can be fired one by one until the bullets in the wheel are exhausted. There can be 5 or 7 bullets in the pulley. At present, people in the country are buying only revolvers and pistols made by Kanpur Ordinance Factory because foreign weapons are no longer being imported into the country. Many safety measures have been installed in revolvers and pistols of Kanpur.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: October 1, 2024, 14:25 IST
