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My Father said he used to cut a x on the FMJ at Guadacanal. Lots of Marines were doing it even if was against the 'rules.'
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Chipperman said:This nonsense is like making a drunk driver serve a longer sentence for DUI of Vodka instead of Rum.
ghost squire said:I am 100 percent positive that it is legal to use expanding bullets on terrorists. We could not use them on Iraqi Republican Guard (legally), but we can use them on terrorists and "freedom fighters" who aren't technically working for the government, who aren't technically an enemy country's soldiers.
The Navy SEALS have been using hollowpoints for some time now, from what I've heard.
That article is so pointless and wrong in so many ways it makes me sick. Its idiotic on multiple levels.
The United States never signed the Hague Accords which mandate the use of FMJ in war. We are not bound by those laws/treaties. If there's a law at all, it's a US law.I am 100 percent positive that it is legal to use expanding bullets on terrorists. We could not use them on Iraqi Republican Guard (legally), but we can
How does the fact that we "abide by it strictly" equate to -I know we never signed it, but we abide by it strictly.
?We could not use them on Iraqi Republican Guard (legally)
Joejojoba111 said:Umm, that's when tazers and stun-guns work best. Especially when you are lieing on top of them. And if they are too far away to use a tazer, then for pete's sake use a rifle.
El Tejon said:UK THRers:
Why does the UK media refer to hollowpoints as "Dum Dum"? Dumdum arsenal bullets were soft points, no?
Is this misnomer become part of the media babble? Please help us confused Yanks.
Right then, carry on, Cheers,
El Tejon
svtruth said:If I were a suicide bomber bomb designer ("And what do you do?") I would give the guy two switches, one that needs to be squeezed, and another that needs to be kept squeezed to not go off. Then no matter what peri-mortal reflexes occurred, KaBoom!
DelayedReaction said:Not this crap again. The fuselage of a jet liner is so thin that it doesn't particularly matter what goes through it, it's gonna punch a hole. Fortunately that doesn't matter because the size of the hole compared to the volume of the plane is absolutely tiny. You'll start leaking air, but it won't cause some kind of catastrophic depressurization.
beerslurpy said:Isnt it a bigger deal that they tackled an innocent man and then shot him in the head when he was completely subdued? You still die from a FMJ in the brain.
This seems like a typical cloud of hot air spewed by someone who knows nothing about firearms or terminal ballistics.
beerslurpy said:This seems like a typical cloud of hot air spewed by someone who knows nothing about firearms or terminal ballistics.
ghost squire said:I am 100 percent positive that it is legal to use expanding bullets on terrorists. We could not use them on Iraqi Republican Guard (legally), but we can use them on terrorists and "freedom fighters" who aren't technically working for the government, who aren't technically an enemy country's soldiers.
The Navy SEALS have been using hollowpoints for some time now, from what I've heard.
That article is so pointless and wrong in so many ways it makes me sick. Its idiotic on multiple levels.
GunnySkox said:With respect to the "expand and splinter" thing, combined with the comment about air marshals and such, I think they're just confusing/combining Frangible and Hollowpoint ammunition.
~GnSx