In the old days, you loaded the catapult up with whatever you had laying around - dead cows, boulders, burning tar - and flung it over the castle walls. Then along came gunpowder and you molded your own lead balls and fired them at your enemy. Hopefully they came some what close to the target, because they tended to wander in flight Then came bullets - spun by the rifling in the guns barrels were much more accurate - but they could punch through the victim. So they invented dumdum bullets and hollow point bullets. These spread apart when they hit a body - small hole going in, big hole going out as the soft lead bullet expanded as it impacted the victims flesh.
A customer of mine said - all you need to stop crime was to stop making bullets the size of the current guns. I said you are wrong - people take the brass casings, mold their own bullets and put in powder and a primer, and reuse them. It's called reloading. It's done all the time. He scoffed at the thought, but in a recent article in some rifle magazine I was reading while waiting for my car the get repaired, proved me correct. It is in fact a big problem - terrorists do it all the time.
So this company came up with plastic bullets - the casings melt when fired - so they can't be reloaded. The slug - a mixture of copper and polymers would break in pieces when it his something - good because it prevented ricochets. Bad because it didn't do a lot of bodily harm. So what to do? They molded flutes in the slugs.
If you take an outboard motor on the back of a boat and fire it up - the spinning propeller only ruffles the air - but when you lower it into the water - it slings water every where. The same thing with these bullets - when the hit flesh - the spin throws the meat everywhere and creates massive damage. More than the hollow point bullets
And these are being marketed as being good for self defense.
Whatever happened to creating a civilization without insanity, war etc?
Mimsey
When shooting a person is not enough
A customer of mine said - all you need to stop crime was to stop making bullets the size of the current guns. I said you are wrong - people take the brass casings, mold their own bullets and put in powder and a primer, and reuse them. It's called reloading. It's done all the time. He scoffed at the thought, but in a recent article in some rifle magazine I was reading while waiting for my car the get repaired, proved me correct. It is in fact a big problem - terrorists do it all the time.
So this company came up with plastic bullets - the casings melt when fired - so they can't be reloaded. The slug - a mixture of copper and polymers would break in pieces when it his something - good because it prevented ricochets. Bad because it didn't do a lot of bodily harm. So what to do? They molded flutes in the slugs.
If you take an outboard motor on the back of a boat and fire it up - the spinning propeller only ruffles the air - but when you lower it into the water - it slings water every where. The same thing with these bullets - when the hit flesh - the spin throws the meat everywhere and creates massive damage. More than the hollow point bullets
And these are being marketed as being good for self defense.
Whatever happened to creating a civilization without insanity, war etc?
Mimsey
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