[OldDeckHand]

He was smart enough to pick a powerful weapon, the .357, that he could use in his dominate hand, and a smaller caliber gun with almost zero recoil but still very deadly, in his weaker hand. He thought this through and depending on when he bought the FN, he may have been thinking about it a while.

And, the AP ammo is virtually impossible to come by. There's no indication that he used anything other than the standard NATO round, in his attack.

[Spktyr]

Citation for other pistol?

[lentulusgracchus]

And, the AP ammo is virtually impossible to come by. There's no indication that he used anything other than the standard NATO round, in his attack.

Okay, what are we talking about here?

"Standard NATO round"? This is a NATO round? I thought 9mm Parabellum FMJ was the "standard NATO round" for a sidearm.

Newsies on TV visiting a gun shop showed a round -- saying that that was what Hasan had used -- which had a blue ballistic tip. Didn't look like military ball ammo at all. Something is off here.

[El Gato]

And, the AP ammo is virtually impossible to come by. There's no indication that he used anything other than the standard NATO round, in his attack.

The NATO round is the armor piercing round. That's restricted to military and police. US military, except perhaps a few special units, don't use the pistol or the carbine, and thus don't have the ammo either. Police could get it of course.

But if you are going after unarmed "Soft" targets, like any Gooo Jihdie does, you'd rather have ballistic tip or the civilian version of FMJ (no penatrator).