British discover hollow points?

[davidd]

Not sure if this was posted anywhere yet, but I found it somewhat funny. After an 80K pound study, the British figured out hollow points actually work...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/11/met-police-hollow-bullets-menezes

 

[dfsutton]

Not sure if this was posted anywhere yet, but I found it somewhat funny. After an 80K pound study, the British figured out hollow points actually work...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/11/met-police-hollow-bullets-menezes

You know, I want to be baffled by the idiocy... but then I remember that Britain is in Europe and it all makes sense.

 

[oleheat]

God.

Sounds like "dumdum" could have more than one meaning in the UK....

 

[Hitman]

and you folks think we got it bad here? not yet we dont....

 

[DuckYou]

They must have some sort of fixed mechanism that allows the propelling of bullets for testing purposes, because the British would never use firearms. That probably cost $75k and the remaining $5k was spent on shipping bullets from the USA to England

 

[JadeRaven]

Oh yeah dumdum bullets.

Why do they have guns over there anyway? I thought they were illegal. . .

 

[charliepapa]

the french use them too? in what, their white flags?

 

[ARboy]

That probably cost $75k and the remaining $5k was spent on shipping bullets from the USA to England

The most accurate .22 rounds in the world come from England. Eley Ammunition.

haha, just saying.

 

[SpeedRacer]

Dumdum bullets? Damn, they can even make lethal ammunition sound gay.

 

[Jed]

and you folks think we got it bad here? not yet we dont....

....exactly.

The Guardian is a leftist rag.

Dumdums were originally a round that had a blade applied to the bullet itself to form a cross, in theory it would then form a petal on impact and cause more damage as it travelled through flesh.
We did'nt get issued hollow points back then, (late 70's)

 

[oleheat]

Didn't the original term "Dum Dum" come from the arsenal in India (called Dum Dum) that used to produce these type of rounds for Britain when India was still under British rule (circa early 1900s)?

 

[JBP55]

They are doing something right, they have Glock pistols and H&K rifles.

 

[charliepapa]

what is this???

 

[Baldrik78]

what is this???

Which? The SA85 or the funny bearskin hats?

 

[crippy02]

the french use them too? in what, their white flags?

Just shot my monster drink all over the screen...lmao

 

[Jed]

Which? The SA85 or the funny bearskin hats?

SA80....not SA85.

 

[Leadslugga]

I'll never understand how you can get a whole country of people to think that it is somehow better to shoot people with less-effective bullets. "Oh, it was right to shoot him, but not to kill him." WTF do they expect, bullets that magically only produce non-fatal wounds?