Think of a bullet like a tiny, metal missile. It's designed to be shot out of a gun with a bang and a whiz. Made mostly of lead, it's a key part of ammunition, the stuff that makes guns go boom. Bullets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending on the gun and what you want to do with it.
Sometimes people call a bullet a "cartridge," but that's not quite right. A cartridge is the whole package: the bullet, the case it sits in, the gunpowder that makes it go, and the primer that ignites the gunpowder. So, a bullet is just one part of the cartridge.
Bullets have a lot of jobs. People use them for hunting animals, shooting targets for fun, protecting themselves, and even in wars. How a bullet works depends on its shape, how it's made, and what it's made of. Some bullets are hollow inside to make them expand when they hit something, while others are covered in metal to make them go through things.
There are different kinds of bullets for different jobs. For example, hollow-point bullets are good for stopping things quickly, while full metal jacket bullets are better for going through things. Soft-point bullets are a bit in between, good for both stopping things and going through them.
Soldiers operated on without anesthetic used to bite bullets to help with the pain. From this comes the phrase "bite the bullet", meaning "To have to do something very unpleasant."
At the age of 20 Winston Churchill escaped death by seconds. When in Cuba as a military observer a bullet smashed into the seat he had left a few moments before.
If you were to fire a bullet from a Lee Enfield .303 rifle — the standard rifle of British military up to the mid-Fifties — directly up into the air, it would take about 55 seconds for it to land.
There is a bullet called "The Flower Shell" that can be shot into the ground by a 12 gauge shotgun to plant flowers.
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At the age of 20 Winston Churchill escaped death by seconds. When in Cuba as a military observer a bullet smashed into the seat he had left a few moments before.
If you were to fire a bullet from a Lee Enfield .303 rifle — the standard rifle of British military up to the mid-Fifties — directly up into the air, it would take about 55 seconds for it to land.
There is a bullet called "The Flower Shell" that can be shot into the ground by a 12 gauge shotgun to plant flowers.
The parents of Chinese dissident Lin Zhao only learnt their daughter was executed in 1968 after a Communist Party official asked them to pay the five-cent fee for the bullet used to kill her.
Rubber bullets were invented by the British Ministry of Defence for use against rioters in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. They were first used there in 1970.
Rubber bullets were invented by the British Ministry of Defence for use against rioters in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. They were first used there in 1970.
The 1985 Russian World War II movie Come and See used real bullets rather than blanks. The bullets sometimes passed just above the heads of actors, making their terrified looks genuine.
The intended use of rubber bullets is to fire at the ground so that the round bounces up and hits the target on the legs, causing pain but not injury.
The intended use of rubber bullets is to fire at the ground so that the round bounces up and hits the target on the legs, causing pain but not injury.
The 9×19mm Parabellum is a rimless, tapered firearms cartridge. Its name comes from the Latin phrase "Si vis pacem, para bellum", which means "If you desire peace, prepare for war."
Bulletproof glass can be manufactured to be bulletproof one way, but allow you to shoot through it the other way.
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