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Why in the world does the Social Security office need 174,000 rounds of man killer .40 cal hollow points or just bullets period??
This linked site is one I seldom share 'cause they are often on the very edge of events but not this time 'cause their story can be verified.
There seems to be a lot of rumbling about how the public will be handled after the "coming economic collapse". Is the unrest found in other parts of the world finally going to hit America? Bad news since there are lots of redneck crazies all across America just itching for a chance to shoot some one.
evil man killer bullets ha ha ha , you got to love the media.
actually if you know anything about ballastics they are used because they are less likely to over penetrate in confined surrounds and hit something or someone else.
they dont stop by ripping internal organs and horrific wounds. thats not to say they cant but their primary function is they stop by staying inside the body and transmitting their energy into the body fliuds disrupting the nervous system stopping an attacker. it doesnt reguire as many holes or to actually kill an attacker to stop them like regular round nosed ammo.
but heck ,never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Ya', but, why is SS ordering ammo at all? 'Course, the three offices I've visited here have guards w/weapons, so maybe it's just an ordinary supply thing?
they are responsible for their own protection of the employees and facilities. its an ordinary supply thing and for practice and re-qualifications.
certain security details require special ammo to meet the confines and demand of where and what they do.
as an example sky marshalls use mag-safe or glasser fragmenting ammo. the ammo can pass through a wood barrier but not make it through a coke can. any fluid from the body explodes the ammo internally creating huge wound channels while not hitting the person across the aisle.
the wound channels can be quite large and damage can be extensive but in the confines of an aircraft you need something like that so others are not hit as a bullet flies through a terrorist.
the FBI uses .40 caliber hollow points as standard ammo too.
at this stage most law enforcement have switched as well despite the fact they were holding back because of stupid media reports like this one. finally they realized their own safety and effectiveness is more important than some rediculios article like this with no clue as to what they are even saying.
ballistics are all about stopping an attacker not killing them.
did you know even if you hit a bad guy dead center in the heart he still has enough time and mobility to cover 20ft and stab or hack you to death.
i dont want to get into it but i know folks find this stuff interesting .good training now dictates that you imagine a 20 ft circle around you and thats your safety zone.
even that shot in the heart still leaves you at risk of being hacked to death.
if a bad guy has a hand weapon you are trained to aim for the pelvis area hopefully shattering the pelvis making it impossible mechanically to continue an attack.
it takes good hollow points , the right barrel length and an effective caliber to pull this off.
But like i said never let the facts ruin a good story.
and you thought i was just a muscle bound financial geek lol....... one day ill tell you about my other life lol
Last edited by mathjak107; 08-15-2012 at 05:02 PM..
You would be surprised how fast at a range an officer can go through a few hundred rounds just running through basic tactics.
Im not sure how many officers they have and what the training schedule looks like but i wouldnt be surprised if it didnt last long at all.
It takes loads and loads of training to get your fine motor skills to work under a high stress situation.
Breaking the bodies reaction and developing tunnel vision is equally as hard and long to train
away.
It can take almost 1,000 repetions of something before you can react and not have to think about your moves.
Trying to explain the whys and hows of -this stuff to folks who have never tried to fire a weapon under stress can be alot like trying to describe the color orange to a blind person.
In my opinion anyone who does this for a living needs as much training time as they can get.
Last edited by mathjak107; 08-15-2012 at 05:20 PM..
I don't recall firing thousands of bullets in practice when I was in the military and we went for annual training.
The judgmental part was actually harder then the firing part because the judgmental is where you had to decide if that old lady with her hand in the bag had a gun or a loaf of bread and whether or not to shoot her.
FWIW..I do remember that I didn't kill anyone with the laser bullet in judgmental that I wasn't supposed to.
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