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In January of 1958, Switzer was getting into his car in front of a bar in Studio City when a bullet smashed through the window and struck him in the upper right arm.
A captain was carrying the Queen's Colour which had the pole smashed and 20 bullet holes through the silk.
A bullet smashed one of the glass doors and one person was shot.

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Injuries or wounds which do not qualify for award of the Purple Heart include frostbite or trench foot injuries ; heat stroke ; food poisoning not caused by enemy agents ; chemical, biological, or nuclear agents not released by the enemy ; battle fatigue ; disease not directly caused by enemy agents ; accidents, to include explosive, aircraft, vehicular, and other accidental wounding not related to or caused by enemy action ; self-inflicted wounds ( e. g., a soldier accidentally fires their own gun and the bullet strikes his or her leg ), except when in the heat of battle, and not involving gross negligence ; post-traumatic stress disorders ; and jump injuries not caused by enemy action.
** The pathologic process, injury, or disease that directly results in or initiates a series of events that lead to a person's death ( also called mechanism of death ), such as a bullet wound to the head, exsanguination caused by a stab wound, manual or ligature strangulation, myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery disease, etc.
The forces from the bullet being fired and the propellant gases exiting the muzzle act directly down the centerline of the barrel.
Hinckley did not hit Reagan directly, but seriously wounded him when a bullet ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the chest .< ref >
The hypodermic needle model ( also known as the hypodermic-syringe model, transmission-belt model, or magic bullet theory ) is a model of communications suggesting that an intended message is directly received and wholly accepted by the receiver.
" A large circular piece of clear Plexiglass was rigged to the camera dolly directly in front of the camera lens with a bullet fixed to the middle of the circular sheet of Plexi.
And by then simply dollying the camera with the entire rig down the room gave us the shot of what looked like the camera flying along directly behind the bullet travelling through the air toward the target .... By carefully ' lighting out ' the reflections on the Plexi, the shot was accomplished.
The officers were ordered to lead the doomed prisoners into the caves with their hands tied behind their backs and then have them kneel down so that the soldiers could place a bullet directly into the cerebellum, ensuring that no more than one bullet would be needed per prisoner.
Even a tiny error in the angle of sight alignment results in a trajectory that diverges from the target on a trajectory directly relative to the distance from the target, causing the bullet to miss the target ; for example with an Olympic 10 metre air rifle shooter trying to hit the 10 ring, which is merely a 0. 5 mm diameter dot on the target at 10 meters and with a 4. 5 mm diameter pellet, an error of only 0. 2 mm in sight alignment can mean a complete miss ( a 3 mm point of impact miss ).
At the moment the bullet leaves the barrel, the momentum of the bullet and the rearward travelling bolt are equal and opposite, assuming a same diameter bore and chamber, such as the sten gun ( which is not true with delayed blowback systems in which some of the momentum is initially transferred directly to the bulk of the gun, or with necked cartridges where the casing is a larger diameter than the projectile ).
A bullet constructed with a half diameter ogive designed meplat and hard, solid copper alloy material will crush only the tissue directly in front of the bullet.
While the bullet did not directly contact the spine, and the wound incurred was not ultimately fatal, the temporary cavitation was sufficient to render SA McNeill paralyzed for several hours.
Unless a bullet directly damages or disrupts the central nervous system, a person or animal will not be instantly and completely incapacitated by physiological damage.
Winter orders a sharpshooter to fire a normally non-lethal rubber bullet directly at Aguilar's head, killing him.
The placement of the primer directly behind the bullet meant the firing needle was enclosed in black powder when the gun was fired, causing serious stress to the pin, which would often break after as few as 200 rounds had been fired, rendering the rifle useless until the pin could be replaced.
The officers are unarmed, but are equipped with a baton, can of pepper spray, handcuffs, whistle, flashlight, reflective traffic vest, bullet resistant vest, and a radio that is directly linked to the Central Dispatcher and other officers.
The bullet catch is a conjuring illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at him or her — often in his or her mouth, sometimes in his or her hand or caught with other items such as a dinner plate.
In short, similar to a bullet, gyroball's axis of spin directly faces forward.

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A bullet gouged into the bar top an inch from Tilghman's stomach as Blue Throat's henchmen started shooting.
" I had a revolver in my pocket and without saying a word to him, I took it out of my overalls and I fired a bullet into the back of his head.
The brass cartridge also opened the way for modern repeating arms, by uniting the bullet, gunpowder and primer into one assembly that could be fed reliably into the breech by a mechanical action in the firearm.
For example, a bullet fired upwards may travel through a ceiling and into an adjacent floor.
To allow the bullet to be seated, the end of the neck is slightly expanded to allow the bullet to start into the case.
The process of manufacturing a jacketed bullet is far more complex than for a cast bullet ; first, the jacket must be punched from a metal sheet of precise thickness, filled with a premeasured lead core, and then swaged into shape with a high pressure press in multiple steps.
Other automatic weapons are subdivided into several categories based on the size of the bullet used, and whether the cartridge is fired from a positively locked closed bolt, or a non-positively locked open bolt.
As the bullet enters the barrel, it inserts itself into the rifling, a process that gradually wears down the barrel, and also causes the barrel to heat up more rapidly.
Early revolvers were caplocks and loaded like muskets: the user poured powder into a chamber, rammed down a bullet, then placed percussion caps between the hammer and cylinder.
The excavation discovered the following items in the two pits which formed a " T ": (# 1 ) remains of 46 human bones fragments ; (# 2 ) bullet jackets from short barrel guns / pistols ; (# 3 ) wooden boxes which had deteriorated into fragments: (# 4 ) pieces of ceramic which appear to be amphoras which were used as containers for acid ; (# 5 ) iron nails ; (# 6 ) iron angles: (# 7 ) seven fragments of teeth ; (# 8 ) fragment of fabric of a garment.
There are a total of eleven weapons in the game, divided into three groups: the bullet weapons, the missile weapons, and the magic weapons.
She saves Buffy by removing the bullet from her chest, but later commandeers a tractor trailer, making it slam into Xander's car while he and Buffy are inside protecting Jonathan and Andrew, the other two members of the Trio.
Others included a black horse mating over a white one, close-up pictures of tattoos reading " HIV Positive " on the bodies of men and women, a cemetery of many cross-like tombstones, a collage consisting of genitals of persons of various races, a priest and nun about to engage in a romantic kiss, pictures of inmates on death row, an electric chair, an advert showing a boy with hair shaped into the devil's horns, three different hearts with " black ", " white " and " yellow " written onto them ( from March 1996 ), and a picture of a bloodied t-shirt and pants ridden with bullet holes from a soldier killed in the Bosnian War ( this one appeared in February 1994 ).
For example, the sound of a bullet impact into a pig carcass may be mixed with the sound of a melon being gouged to add to the " stickiness " or " gore " of the effect.
Bryant fired into the car, the first bullet hit the bonnet and broke the throttle cable.
In Windows versions before XP the asterisk was also used as a mask to hide passwords being entered into a text box ; later this was changed to a bullet.
Finally, insisting to Miss Scarlet the revolver is empty, Wadsworth accidentally fires the last bullet into the air, hitting another chandelier, and causing it to crash closely behind Colonel Mustard.
When fired, the iron cap would force itself into the hollow cavity at the rear of the bullet, thereby expanding the sides of the bullet to grip and engage the rifling.
In the 1850s, the percussion cap was first integrated into a metallic cartridge which contained the bullet, powder charge and primer.
As the story goes, a Union soldier hit a ball over the outfielder's head, leading him into a long chase for the ball which resulted in a bullet wound from a nearby sniper.

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