• NaibofTabr
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      3411 months ago

      This is not correct. It’s common for modern ammunition to be jacketed with copper or some other metal, but the core is still lead (or lead-tin alloy) because it’s cheap, dense and soft enough to form into the rifling grooves while traveling down the barrel. Only special-purpose bullets are made with other metals.

    • @Candelestine
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      411 months ago

      Huh, that’s a new one for me. Who told you that?

    • @petersr
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      211 months ago

      Or was it pencils… So hard to remember…