Posted on 07/01/2019 8:41:10 AM PDT by rellimpank
Dear Readers: I recently ran a question from “Dumbfounded Father” in my column. This man had a 24-year-old daughter who was living with him. She had recently disclosed that she possessed a .40-caliber semi-automatic weapon, with hollow point bullets. This father did not want to have guns in his home.
In my response, I incorrectly stated that hollow point bullets “explode.” I stated that this ammunition is illegal in 11 states. I take responsibility for this error, and apologize to readers who were misinformed, confused or furious about it.
I reached out to Eric Delbert, a second-generation law enforcement officer and owner (with his father) of LEPD firearms range and training facility in Columbus, Ohio, who patiently described the characteristics of hollow point bullets. They do not explode. They expand. This ammunition seems to be only partially banned in one state (New Jersey). He also pointed out that the .40-caliber semi-automatic is extremely popular, and in his opinion an appropriate choice for this young woman.
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Or, perhaps the daughter knows her father and isn’t confident that he could ever protect her.
Liberty aluminum hollow points do fragment quite nicely.
78 grains at 1950fps in .45.
Waiting for them to be banned soon.
Why is this IDIOT commenting on guns at all if she doesn’t even know that hollow point bullets don’t “explode”?
Ask Amy, anything and 90% of the time she’ll be wrong...
Yep. That is the “point” : stop the target, and only the target.
Frangible rounds are a further progression on that approach.
Sounds like they have the little novice thugs filing crosses into those hollowpoint rounds. And people complain they don't have productive after-school activities.
I wonder if she’d like this tee-shirt.
https://www.wildbillwholesale.com/support-a-womans-right-to-choose-any-gun-she-wants-t-shirt/
LOLOLOL!
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