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“Many of the military spec 5.56mm WILL frag if it is one of the several cantalured rounds at at least around 26-2800 ft/sec.”

really, I am sure the enforcers of the Geneva Convention would be very interested in that little factoid.

51 posted on 11/04/2011 2:46:50 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)

It has been like that since for a very long time and they weren't made to deliberately do that. It is not “intended”. Just a good side affect. I no of no American or international legal body asserting 5.56 and all small arms must zing in and out with the smallest wound possible. Besides, it is a stupid restriction. We use multiple forms of bombs that fragment everywhere and FMJs are usually band under most state laws for hunting as they are “inhumane”. One of the huge gripes of our soldiers is that the 5.56 does NOT frag at all and the bad guys keep fighting as a fmj 5.56 caliber from a very fast cartridge might as well be a .22 LR if it hits with no deformation for fraging.
Also it isn't the Geneva Convention where they were banned, it was the Hague Convention.