Heavy, soft, and inexpensive. Gold is also heavy and soft, but is too expensive to use.
yes, lead is in a bullet BOOM
Unlikely, unless you grind the bullet into powder, and eat it or inhale it. A solid lead bullet is not a form where the metal is readily absorbed by the body.
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they made it because it can withstand more of an impact than the lead bullet itself can,so then you could shoot into a bullet proof vest than have the lead crush or shatter on impactANS 2 -Copper jacketed lead bullets were made long before anyone had bullet proof vests . Possibly around 1885. One of the primary reasons for this was the standard lead bullet left many corrosive deposits inside the bore. By WW1 most European armies were using 'spitzer' bullets, these were lead cored, with a copper or nickel jacket. In the US, the Springfield 30-06 had a cupro-nickel alloy jacket before WW1
Yes, some still do. The actual bullet is made of lead.
Usually lead.
Lead and lead compounds are toxic.
because the lead singers girlfriend killed herself with a gun.
No. They are a lead bullet with a jacket of copper/ nickel alloy.
Get a bullet mold, lead and a melting pot.
32 as of January
It can lead to bullying.