Since we\nseem to be experiencing another \u201criot situation\u201d in this country, I\u2019m getting\nsome requests on whether this factor should change ammunition selection. The answer is, it depends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you fear\nyou may have to fire in a crowd situation, you don\u2019t want to miss with\nbystanders in the background, and <\/em>you\ndon\u2019t want your bullet to go through and through the assailant you had to shoot\nand go on to strike down an innocent party. \nIn some of the gun forums you\u2019ll hear people say \u201cThat\u2019s a myth, it\u2019s\nnever happened.\u201d To which I politely\nanswer, \u201cBullshit.\u201d (Yeah, that\u2019s about\nas politely as I can <\/em>answer that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In one city\nalone, a major newspaper\u2019s FOIA study discovered that in well under a decade,\nfive innocent citizens had been shot with police pistol bullets that perforated\nthe bodies of violent offenders and went on their not-so-merry way with tragic\nresults. During the same period, no fewer than seventeen fellow officers were\nhit by pass-through police bullets that perforated the felon\u2019s body before\nstriking the cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\ndepartment in question was issuing 115 grain full metal jacket 9mm because the\nexpanding bullets used by virtually all the rest of domestic law enforcement\nwere deemed politically incorrect by the city. The city finally saw the light\nand solved the problem by issuing hollow points after that study was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, when you fire in self-defense the only backstop is the body of the violent attacker who forced you to shoot him.\u00a0 Full metal jacket 9mm, .357 SIG, .40 and .45 are all highly likely to over-penetrate a standing man\u2019s torso with enough power to kill or cripple any person behind him, likely unseen by the shooter because of tunnel vision, darkness, or the attacker\u2019s body simply blocking their view. More details here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n