Oooohhhh. They meant how bad is getting shot very close to the muzzle. There for a second I thought they meant how bad is it to get shot at any distance over which the trajectory of a given projectile fired from a given weapon remains sufficiently flat that one can strike a target by firing at it directly.
My bad.
Words mean things, Ms Clinton. Hehehe. d;^)
Definition of Point Blank Range
Yeah, I surmised they really meant “close contact” or equivalent...
Thanks for defining “point blank” for the author...Words do indeed have meaning...