Isn’t “live” ammo the same thing as “ammo”?
Once you use a bullet its really not ammunition anymore. I guess modifying it with the word live makes it sound more scary.... as if its a bomb ready to explode.
Yes, but using the term "live ammo" is much more dramatic. It makes the stuff sound so much more menacing. The idiot news media do whatever they can to make the people fearful of anything to do with guns.