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0 pointstitzer5y ago0 comments

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.

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0 pointstitzer5y ago0 comments

This is true. It's also true that far more than 99% of bullets fired in wars don't hit people.

pjc505y ago

.. 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.

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