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by titzer 2183 days ago
This is true. It's also true that far more than 99% of bullets fired in wars don't hit people.
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.. and then people spend the next century slowly cleaning up toxic lead and leftover explosives, like the "iron harvest" of WW1 battlefields.
Military small arms ammunition must be jacketed, per the Hague Convention.