Ammunition bans are a sneaky attempt to deny self-defense options
Gun grabbers aren’t getting far in their attempt to ban handguns, so the next best step is to go after ammunition. They use scary terms to demonize ordinary self-defense equipment, hoping this will make Americans more comfortable with their incremental effort to diminish and ultimately eliminate the Second Amendment.
Federal agencies, for example, have made a stir recently with large ammunition purchases for use by their respective law-enforcement divisions. Much of the hype surrounding the orders from the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service emphasized the use of “hollow points” to give the false impression that bullets Uncle Sam ordered were something beyond standard-issue.
Just 20 years ago, all bullets had full metal jackets, so they would go straight through a violent felon with the potential to strike an innocent bystander. “Hollow-points bullets were designed for law enforcement to hit the intended target and not cause collateral damage behind the target,” explained Mike Stock, an engineer at Winchester Ammunition. “Our modern hollow point technology increases safety so a round goes in the bad guy and nowhere else.”
Ha ha ha ha! Cops MISS the bad guy entirely 83% of the time. Over penetration with pistol bullets is a joke.
Here’s a clue: ballistic weapons work by penetration. Attempts to reduce penetration will reduce effectiveness of the weapon. Pistols are marginal weapons in the first place. As the saying goes, “a hollow point won’t hurt a .45 (ACP)”. By the time you get down to .380 ACP, the caliber is so weak that hollow points radically limit it’s usefulness by severely limiting penetration.
Stock is correct: NYPD did go to hollow point ammunition 20 years ago to reduce over penetration.
But it’s a destructive solution to a tiny problem.
I was impressed that the officers involved in the Empire State shooting were able to hit their subject 10 times, and ALSO hit nine other nearby individuals, with a total of 16 rounds fired. 19 hits in 16 trigger pulls is an amazing feat with rounds that are supposed to REDUCE the amount of “collateral damage.”
If you are interested in the topic, these are excellent reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/nyregion/new-york-police-will-start-using-deadlier-bullets.html
http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/OIS.pdf
Excellent reading, thank you, Sir.
With weapons of around 4000 rounds a minute we should be seeing some even better massacres soon. Should be fun, what?
Your statement is simply weird. Such weapons have been around for over two generations.
Sure Gamecock, but people are getting nastier. Get it?
No, I don’t get it.
Yes, 4,000 rounds per minute for about half a second at any rational amount of ammunition that can be carried and less than that on any amount that can be loaded. At that firerate, you will slaughter everyone in a 2 degree arc.There is a reason that civilians can’t purchase belt-fed ammunition, and there is also a reason that those guns are mounted on tanks, APCs, and helicopters.
Well Ben, I reckon that must make the people in the USA feel a lot safer knowing that.