When you pull the trigger on a gun, whatever the muzzle is pointed at when the firing mechanism discharges the round in the chamber, will be hit by a 115-230 grain projectile moving at somewhere between 850 and 1,300 feet per second for handgun rounds! Rifle rounds can be lighter or heavier, and travel at speeds in excess of 3,000 feet per second! (1,100 feet per second is generally considered super sonic). If you shoot at something you were not intending to, it is likely the bullet will hit before the person or animal hears the gun go off! […]
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