![]() That, thankfully, has changed with hollow points reducing risk of over penetration shoot through and ricochet. As a consequence, FMJ round nose “ball” was the required by many agencies and employers (spitzers were rare but would over penetrate), and at most they might allow half-jacketed soft or flat point. I open carried as required for a job I had 45 years ago, in the revolver era, when hollow point ammunition was equated with dum-dum bullets that were deliberately intended to fragment, and was considered evil with their only possible intent in law enforcement, security or self defense use being excessive maiming and killing. ammo than not, but is it really that much better than these other self-defense rounds? (Recognizing it is extremely unlikely that someone will have to draw their gun in self-defense, and even less likely that they will have to fire it in self-defense, and even less likely that they will execute a one-shot stop.)Īll defensive ammunition is designed to respond to trouble, but is “R.I.P.” on your ammo also asking for it? Of course I recognize the alternative argument that you’d rather be alive to defend your use of R.I.P. I imagine myself on trial and the prosecuting attorney telling the jury that I used “R.I.P.” ammo as opposed to “Critical Defense” or “Ultimate Defense” or “DPX” ammo. ![]() ![]() I wonder about the advisability of using “R.I.P.” ammo for personal defense in light of the recent case of a Mesa, Arizona police officer who is being charged with second degree murder committed with a rifle inscribed “you’re fucked” on the dust guard (see also Bob Owen’s take on this on ). My interest is less in the technology (for which see the video above, which has over 7 million views on YouTube) than in the marketing, and especially the naming. ![]()
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