rubber bullet


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a bullet made of hard rubber

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They said the forces attacked residents of the neighborhood near a local mosque and beat some of them while firing rubber bullets and teargas at random in the area causing suffocation and injuries.
Thirty-five years ago when I was still living in Austin, Texas I bought a box of .38/357 rubber bullets. The only directions were a sized brass case and standard small primer and we never had any issues with primer setback.
1 person has a hand injury from rubber bullet and eye contusion.
Because of their ability to maim and kill people, rubber bullets should not be used as a tool for crowd control, concluded researchers in a study published in December in BMJ Open.
He was the first person in the Troubles to die from a rubber bullet.
The confrontations erupted when Israeli forces violently stormed the town amid heavy firing of live ammunition and rubber bullets, local sources said, adding that young men responded by throwing stone at the Israeli military vehicles.
Coun Stockdale said that he was hit by a rubber bullet as he fled which, he believes, had ricocheted off the floor.
The leader of the opposition Wefaq party Sheikh Ali Salman was hit on the chest and shoulder by a rubber bullet and a teargas canister on Friday, the movement said in a statement.
Some were peaceful, but others ended in clashes between masked protesters and riot police - who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds.
"I was hit in the back with a rubber bullet and a sound bomb exploded next to John.
A MAN who threatened to kill police with a samurai sword had to be brought down with a rubber bullet, a court has heard.
The far more interesting events were happening downtown, where several thousand remaining protesters were gathered in the general vicinity of the notorious barricade, the "red zone." On the other side of the barricade were hordes of federal, provincial, and local riot policemen armed with tear gas and rubber bullet rifles, plus Canadian army troops with dogs.
24 in federal court charging the Los Angeles Police Department with deliberately targeting members of the media in its baton, pepper gas and rubber bullet attacks on the crowd at a Rage Against the Machine concert Aug.
One protestor, Brian Styles of Seattle, was struck in the chin with a quarter-inch red rubber bullet. A photojournalist, Oakley Myers, was shot five times with rubber bullets.