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Jazz, recall that bullet velocities are measured in units/second, not hour. Their very fatal velocities are affected by air resistance but in normal trajectory are still large enough to be life threatening at any point from the muzzle to the ground. OTOH, dropping one from low velocities (or the apogee of a bullet shot) becomes similar to the debate over a penny dropped from the Empire State Building. At any significant altitude, horizontal velocity becomes insignificant. The difference would be that a tumbling penny is relatively slow while a tumbling bullet may reach 100+fps. Ouch.
Some people take "up into the air" as straight up, others don't. That can account for the difference in assumptions. "Through the door" certainly doesn't sound like "up into the air", but whatever. Away from the classroom, and given my inability to drill a hole straight down into construction projects, I'd join you in the storm cellar.
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