Some pellet guns are potent enough to kill someone.
True. Or at the very least put your eye out!
At a minimum, ‘You’ll shoot your eye out!’ ;)
“Some pellet guns are potent enough to kill someone.”
Girardoni air rifle
18th century Austrian airgun
The Girandoni air rifle is an air gun designed by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Girandoni circa 1779. The weapon was also known as the Windbüchse. One of the rifle’s more famous associations is its use on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore and map the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Wikipedia
“Some pellet guns are potent enough to kill someone.”
Absolutely.
As a boy my brother and I each had a CO2 powered 10 shot bolt action repeating Crossman rifle. We did actually hunt with them. They approached 22 rifle performance.
Now there are serious hunting rifles that are super pressurized and shoot up to 30 caliber.
Further back:
The Lewis And Clark (in 1803) Air Rifle: A Blast From The Past (Jun 16, 2021)
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lewis-and-clark-air-rifle.html