Bullet traps at indoor shooting ranges often include durable steel plates to deflect bullets downward into a material intended to stop and capture the bullets. The catch?

Some bullets are fired to intentionally ricochet, just as in ricochets of some ball games like basketball and pool. A rubber bullet can break skin or cause serious welts or bruising. If fired too low, rubber bullets would ricochet uncontrollably from the ground. Rubber bullets were meant to be fired below waist level, to reduce the risk of lethal injury. Those bullets do less damage due to the fact they bounce off of their victims, but they would ricochet onto another enemy due to the metallic objects they have.

However, they were often fired directly at people from close range, which resulted in three people being killed and many more badly injured. That's why I thought of a bullet for that purpose: the Hyper-Magnetic Rubber Bullets.

Yet anytime a bullet is fired, it can ricochet and cause serious injury, says Dr. Mell.

IsItBullshit: Rubber bullets are meant to be fired at the ground to ricochet up instead of being fired directly

The bullets are magnetic, so they are attracted only to metal, so they would ricochet on the metal parts of enemies.

You see, rubber bullets are intended to be fired at the ground first, and then hit a person to modify the behavior that was of concern to the law enforcement officer, says Goodloe. Bullets can kill. Rubber bullets are bullets.

But, studies show they are powerful enough to permanently maim and kill.

Not all ricochets are accidental. Rubber bullets are not always made out of rubber.

Use of rubber bullets and less-lethal rounds have surged in the Black Lives Matter protests.