The Feds have been buying up hollow point ammunition, body armor, and other military items in massive amounts, ammunition which is outlawed by the Geneva Convention, whose only purpose is to kill, not wound those unlucky enough to be hit by such ammo, when you have federal agencies like the IRS, the EPA, the USDA (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to be exact), the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Social Security Administration, even the damn Smithsonian Museum!
The fact is, armed federal agents in these alphabet soup agencies outnumber the entire Marine Corps now!
This is not good at all.
I agree with you that militarization of these departments is insane. The EPA, IRS, and Smithsonian may have authority, but enforcement of the law should be handled by security agencies.
Cut (dumb-dumb ) and hollow point ammunition was outlawed in the Geneva Convention because it created wounds that were almost impossible to treat. Militarily speaking, it’s often more advantageous to wound an enemy soldier that kill them outright, as they become a burden on men and other enemy resources when wounded. Ball ammunition is more apt to simply wound than kill.
But the fact remains that such hollow ammunition is better at delivering the full energy of the round, while also preventing over-penetration, which could put others behind the target at risk.
Most people serious about safe and responsible self defense carry hollow point ammunition. The goal is not to wound an attacker putting your life, or the life of your family, at risk. The goal is to stop the threat by delivering maximum damage as quickly as possible.