[MrB]

Yeah, especially since a “bullet” is just a lump of inert lead.

/pedantry

[Bidimus1]

Sammi Video on ammo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c

Written report on ammo no in a chamber

http://www.saami.org/specifications_and_information/publications/download/saami_item_212-facts_about_sporting_ammunition_fires.pdf

It could happen but the damage from dropping a .22 rifle on you foot may well be more than having a unchambered round go off at you

[antidisestablishment]

It’s funny, whenever I cooked off ammo, the bullet tended to remain in place while the casing flew in the other direction. Guess physics has changed since I left Cali.