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I know that the government asked citizens to donate metal (for bullets) and bacon grease (for rubber).
I think most bullets have always been made, principally, of lead. Lead is soft, heavy & easy to mould or cast. In the times of Musketry bullets were spherical, rifling improved their ballistic qualities and they became pointed cylindrical in shape. Nowadays they are coated in copper, but lead is still their principal metal.
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They were never made of wood. During World War II they were made of plaster, since metal was in high demand. They were traded for metal staues after the war.
around 41 billion bullets were made in the u.s.a. that's enough to kill the worls population 17 times