If you're like me you've wondered why, in old cowboy movies, guys could take a dozen rounds from a .44 and live. The answer is simple: Those weren't hollow-points.
This is the problem. This is a semi-jacketed hollow-point, typically found in pistols on the hips of cops. That center projection is to improve penetration. As you can see, on impact, that copper jacket peels back to become a razor-sharp, jagged bundle of metal. The lead core flattens and spreads out, maximizing damage.
This is called Hydra-Shock ammo. This is a reference to hydrostatic shock - the transference of energy through the water that makes up most of a human body. Cell walls are shredded, ruptured, and the damage spreads out much farther than the actual impact area of the projectile. It's also called stopping power, because people stop when one of these hits them. They stop for a long time. A wound from one of these will never heal properly. Depending on the range, a hollow-point will either lodge in the body, leaving scattered and irretrievable fragments, or blow all the way through, leaving a fist-sized hole coming out. Either way, no one hit by one of these will ever be the same again.
Someone sat down and designed this. They said "Bullets just don't kill effectively enough," and thought of ways to make bullets meaner. Then they sold these to Officer Friendly. Officer Friendly has been trained since day one on the force to think everyone that's not a cop is a potential cop-killer. "Protect and Serve" is just PR. They see it as Us and Them. Officer Friendly loves hollow-points.
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Thats one way to see it.
Or.
You and your family are fast asleep at 3am. Your young 10 year old daughter is asleep down the hall in nothing but her panties.
A home intruder hyped up on METH breaks through your back window with a knife. He enters your daughter's room and decides to rape your innocent 10 year old daughter.
"Daddy, why didn't you stop him??"
Now. How do you feel about owning a gun with Hollow point ammunition?
I do. And my family thanks me for it.
A criminal and a cop get in a gun battle and rounds fly back and forth. One round ricochets and hits a woman in the head. This round was not a hollow point.
RE: the first comment. If it weren't for the bullshit that is private property, there wouldn't BE crimes such as the hypothetical one you listed, as private property created crime as we know it today. But I'm well aware that all of you flag-bearing, sensationalism-blinded, America's Most Wanted loving fools [know] the truth; you just do as your told by partaking in your underground societies; don't you realize that God HATES you for perpetuating such EVIL vicious cycles and misery upon mankind? I'm glad I see through all the bullshit, and that I actually READ and think for myself.
Yeah you see through all the bullshit. Just wait til someone breaks into your home and your un-armed. Its happened to people I know and believe me now they own a gun and would only use it when necessary. I'd like to see you talking like this when someone decides to take your property from your apartment and when you woke up they felt they had to stab you to get away. Maybe you speak like this because you take part in acts like these. Go think for yourself somewhere else ya dumbass.
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