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human
ELI5: What happens to all the bullets fired AFTER a war, battle, or a shootout? I mean, is there a bullet recycling center somewhere? They can't go all to waste right?
gpt
Short answer: no.

Long answer: Hell no.

Yes, imagine bullets fired throughout war. On a ballistic trajectory.

Buried in the earth, buried in the walls, buried in rock, floorboards, trees, sandbags... Anything resistant enough to bullets turns said bullet into a spray of shards. Most bullets end up as misshapen lumps.

To 'recover' bullets for later use, you would have to get the bullets from a war ground, where live ordnance may still be an issue, endangering people's lives, and then somehow collect all these bullets *from inside the scenery*, and send them all to a depot to be sorted, melted down, and made into new bullets.

The only way that will ever happen is if humanity becomes *desperate* for metal. Until then, it's not viable from both time, and cost effectiveness.

Not to mention it would all be getting rusty out there in the elements...

There's just no way to make that viable.