Well, do the math, guys. Say a forty degree elevation and a final altitude at the top of the parabola of, what -- five hundred meters? Depends on the ammo, I guess.   A slug weighing what, four grams? Ten?   The gravitational force is still a good old-fashioned 9.6 meters-per-second per second. When it lands, deformed or not, it will penetrate skulls and tissue to a significant distance, I reckon.

Assuming someone is under it when it comes down.


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