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echo: guns
to: JOHN PERZ
from: VERN HUMPHREY
date: 1996-05-25 07:49:00
subject: Re: .22 rifle

JP>-> NP>Seems to show pretty clearly that there really isn't any danger
JP>-> NP>of death by falling bullets.  Or at least no more then the
JP>-> NP>danger of larger hail.
JP>-> Not from pure falling, but if the bullet takes a shallower arc, it
JP>Bloody good thing, too.  Can you imagine how many MILLIONS of rounds
JP>were expended in the air war over Europe?  All of which eventually fell
JP>to ground.
And a LOT of people were killed by anti-aircraft fire.  It got so bad,
that during the Normandy invasion, troops were forbidden to shoot at
German aircraft with small arms.
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