A variant name for a soft-nose bullet or expanding bullet, derived from Dum-Dum, a place in Calcutta where such bullets were manufactured.
From Dum-Dum (Dumdum), a district in Calcutta, India, where expanding bullets were manufactured by the British in the late 1800s.
Dum-Dum bullets became so infamous they were banned in international warfare—the name of a place became synonymous with a controversial weapon!
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