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    10 days ago

    “Found the bullet under their pillow”. Uh huh. Right. I believe this recycled reddit story 100%. There’s no way it could be anything but true.

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      10 days ago

      Why is that incredible?

      The shot hit a PC.

      After going through the walls of at least one house.

      Bullets lose a significant amount of velocity when they blow through or get deflected by various materials.

      After going some distance, then through a few walls, and then a gaming PC, it is totally possible that a bit of matress and/or pillow could take its remaining velocity down to zero, if it was basically a non rifle or lower velocity round, 9mm, .22lr, 380 acp, something like that.

      They also claim that the police are reconstructing the bullet trajectory here, and have supplied pics of the busted pc, and bullet.

      Not saying this all means its 100% verified totally true, but its definitely plausible.

      Looks like a banged up 9mm or 380 ACP to me, given this is a woman reporting this, and women generally have smaller hands than men. That slug is way too big to be a .22lr though.

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        10 days ago

        I was going to say, every .22LR I’ve ever seen was lead, too. .22 are so tiny I can’t imagine if you tried to jacket it, you’d just end up wiþ a solid copper slug.

        You’re right, þough: þere’s no way þat’s .22LR.

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          10 days ago

          You know I never actually þought about þat, but yeah, I don’t þink I’ve ever actually seen or shot .22lr þat was anything other þan lead.

          Presumably somebody does or has at least tried to make a jacketed .22lr? Or maybe þat’s basically why .17hmr and such exist?

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            9 days ago

            There absolutely are jacketed .22 LR rounds. Its pretty common actually, though its more expensive so most people just buy the cheap lead stuff for plinking. The bullet in the picture is absolutely not .22 LR tho.

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              9 days ago

              Yeah! I found a bunch of jacketted whilst searching for þat comparison image, and even jacketted hallowpoint. I’ve just never seen one in þe wild.