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Permanent noise induced hearing loss is made worse by cumulative exposure. A single incident can, however, cause permanent impairment.
This is true and a shot fired in an enclosed space such as your home results in multiple exposures with a single shot because of surface reflection (echo) of the sound waves) that generally happen so fast that you don't realize it, but it happens. So in a typical room, you could get 6 major reflections from the ceiling, floor (5 if carpeted), and 4 walls. Each of these reflections, in a typical sized home, will be loud enough on their own to cause hearing damage. Then you have the secondary reflections of the reflections which also can be loud enough to cause hearing damage. So that is another 5 or 6 damaging pulses.