Most every night onstage, my partner, Teller, has a bullet signed and loaded into a gun by a stranger. He turns on the laser sight, aims the gun at my face, and pulls the trigger. Bang! The Bullet Catch is just a trick, but it’s the most dangerous trick in show business. At least twelve magicians have died onstage pretending to catch a signed bullet. If you count carnies as magicians (and magicians don’t), the number of people (if you count carnies as people, and many rubes don’t) killed doing this trick jumps to over fourteen.
