Hollow Points - This is just Plain Weird - If True

[Reality Check]

The article just goes on, and on, with different information about different agencies of the United States government making purchase which are just plain weird.

As the article notes, this ammunition is banned by international treaty from use in war because of the type of damage it causes to the human body.

http://www.infowars.com/national-weathe ... -purchase/

[gerald]

Wouldn't this type of ammunition be advantageous in putting down civil unrest?
Look at some of the posts under "the unthinkable" -- a connection maybe?
Heck, maybe they are just trying to prepare for any eventuality, just to be safe, - no worries.

[psCargile]

Zombiepocalypse prep?

Did you see this update on the website?

UPDATE: The Washington Post now reports, via a statement from NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen, that the original solicitation contained a “clerical error” and that the “solicitation for ammunition and targets for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement mistakenly identified NOAA’s National Weather Service as the requesting office.” This still doesn’t explain why hollow point bullets, designed to cause maximum organ damage, are needed for shooting at paper targets. Was the delivery of the bullets to the NWS a cover for them being transferred somewhere else? It’s entirely possible given the sordid history of Fast and Furious, a federal government program under which guns were sent directly to Mexican drug cartels.

It's quite possible that marksmen (or markswomen or markspersons) want to inclict the most damage possible to paper targets. Document shredding?

[Reality Check]

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UPDATE: The Washington Post now reports, via a statement from NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen, that the original solicitation contained a “clerical error” and that the “solicitation for ammunition and targets for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement mistakenly identified NOAA’s National Weather Service as the requesting office.” This still doesn’t explain why hollow point bullets, designed to cause maximum organ damage, are needed for shooting at paper targets. Was the delivery of the bullets to the NWS a cover for them being transferred somewhere else? It’s entirely possible given the sordid history of Fast and Furious, a federal government program under which guns were sent directly to Mexican drug cartels.

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One could see several lines of argument for Police agencies, as opposed to the U.S. Weather Service, buying hollow point bullets.

Hollow point bullets tend to expand and slow down in the human body faster than bullets which do not expand.
Thus less chance of a bullet passing through the body of the first person struck by the bullet and hitting someone else.
Of course the fact that these U.S. government agencies are also ordering high power ammunition that has more energy behind the bullets and thus more chance to pass through multiple bodies sort of destroys that justification.

This same logic could be used for handing out free hollow point bullets to street gangs in Chicago in an attempt to limit injuries caused by gang related crime to intended crime victims and reduce collateral damage to unintended crime victims.

It is the same kind of logic that leads government agencies to hand out free needles to drug addicts.

[psCargile]

Oh, I agree. That's a bullet designed to kill people, not just stop them.