Last I heard from ‘the gun boards’, for those that have semi-automatic handguns for perrsonal defense, in New Jersey, cannot obtain hollow point bullets, and are left to such things as ‘expanding full metal jacket rounds’, such as Federal’s Guard Dog line. These bullets, in FBI comparable tests to be found on YouTube, don’t really function that well.
Krispy Kreme Christie is not any place close for any kind of consideration of political gain, in my eyes.
Not sure who told you that, but you can go to any gun store in NJ and buy hollow points.
There are restrictions as to where you can have them, but at home is not one of them. You can also shoot them at the range or to hunt. As there is no carry in NJ, other than those places it doesn't really matter. Retired LEOs can carry expanding ammo, but there are only a few ammos that don't meet the hollow point definition and as you said, they don't work very well.
On the other hand, a normal resident who get caughts on the parkway with a .22 hollow point that fell out of his pocket and he's in serious trouble.