Warning shot

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In military and police contexts, a warning shot is an intentionally harmless artillery shot or gunshot with intent to enact direct compliance and order from a hostile perpetrator or enemy force. It is recognized as signaling intended confrontations on land, sea, and air.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Warning shot”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: United States Department of Homeland Security, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.