LAST EDITED ON May-29-16 AT 00:01 AM (EDT)
 
>The rule of thumb is that the _lowest_ grade
>round, the plain .22LR, is still possibly-lethal at 1 mile.

In fairness, you would have to be catastrophically unlucky to be killed or seriously hurt by a .22 LR bullet at a range of one mile; but I have found that a lot of the standard safety precautions in virtually anything as inherently dangerous as shooting are rooted, and rightly so, in the underlying maxim, "Never assume you are not catastrophically unlucky."

--G.
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