RE: DHS purchases 1.6 billion hollow point rounds.
January 10, 2013 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2013 at 12:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hollow points are useful for a situation in which your target is positioned amongst a crowd of non-combatants. IOW, they reduce the risk of penetrating the target and continuing on the the bystander behind the target. They give greater knowdown power but also cause greater damage as side effects of the manner in which this is achieved (from the perspective of law enforcement they're extremely advantageous if the target is armored btw - as it amounts to hitting someone in the chest with a very large very fast sledgehammer). That sounds like a pretty legitimate reason to deploy the round to me.
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