“Although most people think it’s worse getting shot at close range than from afar, physics says otherwise. The bullet accelerates at a rate until it reaches max velocity. At close range it is not at max velocity. “
Please explain how a bullet accelerates after leaving the barrel ...
I would like to hear the apparent exception to the laws of conservation of energy....
Even if the “jet” effect of propellant gases exiting behind a bullet at the moment it exits the muzzle exerts some additional force to the bullet ( which I personally doubt), the forces of drag begin at that exact moment too, so external forces demand deceleration from then on.