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.
Isn’t “live” ammo the same thing as “ammo”?
There is “dead” ammo, as in dummy rounds, inert, or duds.
So “live” ammo has some application.