I read an interesting article about the design of bullets. My interest was prompted as I read the plastic-and-cardboard wrapping of a plastic toy gun my son bought today at the National Western Stock Show. (For the pacifists among my readers, he also purchased a cute stuffed cow.)
As a matter of physics, a bullet that remains within the body it was fired at will cause the most damage. Bullets that do not penetrate cause less; bullets that travel all the way through "waste" energy. A bullet's size, shape and composition will affect its behavior. Thus, the deer hunter, elephant hunter and assassin will want different bullets.
In the case of police, they cannot necessarily predict who they will be firing at: the shirtless, the heavily bundled, or the driver behind an automobile windshield. I wonder how they choose, and I wonder if each officer is allowed to choose for himself or herself?
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