Why does our government need hollow point?
Jacketed hollow points are what you use to shoot people or animals with.
Full metal jacket rounds are practice rounds: cheaper because they’re easier to make. Of course, when you’re shooting on the gov’t dime, you can practice with full defense loadings.
Our troops get the shaft and have to use FMJ because of the 1886 Hague Convention’s obscure wording designed to make sure no scary future exploding rounds would be developed. I don’t know why the higher ups don’t just announce that the FMJ standard is BS and switch us to JHPs.
To have a round for anyone who will support and defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic..
Because if some Border Patrol agent has to shoot some Coyote or drug runner, he/she will want them to go down.
Virtually all police use them. Only the military is not supposed to use them in "civilized" warfare.