Well they have contracts with pretty much the entirety of the US gov including DOD, ofcourse they wouldn’t dare to defy their king

Dude, there’s massive differences between shrapnel and a bullet. The size, velocity, whether it was tumbling or not. Biggest factor here’s tumbling, if a bullet was tumbling, it would make a fucking mess to the target aka Medo, same as shrapnel. The point of a bullet is to have clean entrance and exit wound (if it penetrated all the way thru).

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