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An increasingly common gag is to have the character waste most or all of their ammo in a manic fit of in air firing.
 
Remember: what goes up, must come down. Thus far, few people have ever been shown being injured by a stray bullet from this display, which could impact the ground or injure/kill someone at about 200 MPH a fair distance away.(The ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' have investigated the inherent possibilities, though...)
 
As usual, [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Celebratory gunfire|has more details than you could ever reasonably ask]].
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* Lampshaded on ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World|Sir Arthur Conan Doyles the Lost World]]''. A character tries this, and is ordered to stop wasting bullets. They're in a jungle, after all. They'll need all the bullets they can get.
* Parodied in ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' when Stephen celebrates Chicago lifting a 3 decade long ban on [[Handguns]] by firing [[I Call It Vera|Sweetness]] into the air and having Jimmy drop the balloons... which were all popped by the bullets.
* Deconstructed in ''[[Reno 911!]]''. The Iraqi police officers that the Reno Sheriff's Department is training have a habit of firing their guns in the air in celebration. The deputies respond to this by telling them to run since the lead's probably going to be coming back down soon.
* Lampshaded in the first episode of ''[[The Magnificent Seven (TV series)|The Magnificent Seven]]'', when a group of drunken cowboys form a lynch mob and are opposed by two of the series protagonists, who point out why this trope is a bad idea:
{{quote|'''Chris''': You shot a lot of holes in the clouds back there. Anybody stop to reload?}}
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*** Also, believe it or not, blanks are pretty damn expensive; usually starting at about $1 a shot.
*** Also, blank cartridges don't tend to cycle the action of automatic and semi-automatic firearms that well.
** ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' showed that this happens as long as the rifle/pistol is not pointing perfectly straight up into the air - on the fluke chance that it is, the bullet will just drift. Of course, the ability of your average celebratory shooter managing this is not all that high. Warning, Science content! A bullet fired straight up, or very nearly so, will expend all of its momentum in gaining altitude, less a little bit lost to air resistance. It will then fall back down, it's velocity limited by air resistance. A bullet fired at an angle, however, even a steep one, will still have a high velocity when it comes back down.
* [[wikipedia:Darra Adam Khel|Darra Adam Khel]]. It's not celebratory, it's just product testing.
* According to ''[[Dave Barry]] Hits Below the Beltway'', Firing in the Air a Lot is a traditional way to celebrate festive occasions in Miami:
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