“..Actually, they aim for the knees or the groin area (if you know what I mean) and use CCI Stingers or MiniMags....”
Not a bad strategy, especially when the perps are wearing body armor. They should add the adam’s apple area to that list as well.
A lot of people blow off the .22LR as if it were a toy. Sure, it has no immediate stopping power compared to the big calibers, but rest assured, it’s gonna bounce around in there and the perp will eventually go down for the count.
They don’t want to kill them, just incapacitate them and spend the rest of their miserable lives thinking about their injuries; one hundred yards in a city environment is pretty good shooting range.
The IDF is not trying to kill the target in these scenarios.
A .22 almost killed President Reagan.