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Originally Posted by calex59
One, reloading is a great way to save on cost, I have reloaded ammo most of my life and I am 66 now. Been reloading since I was 12. Two, you can reload and shoot the hell out of it on the range and if you are so hung up on someone ripping you for defending your life then you can carry factory ammo that duplicates the point of aim of your reloads.
That said, I carry reloads for defense, load solid rounds for my large calibers, .44 and above, but load hollow points for my smaller calibers, .38 special, .380 auto etc. The law won't get you for that, but they might question why you bought factory Black Talons or some other terrible sounding name ammo to carry in your CCW gun. Cops carry hollow points.
BTW, dum dums are bullets that have been sawed off (the head of a solid round) and made into a type of hollow point, so I doubt if the police are using dum dums. The term dum dum was coined during WWI when troops sawed off the heads of metal jacketed bullets to make them better killers. Look it up, google will probably work.
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I think we have covered, previously in this post both the cases where using reloads directly contributed to long prison stays and the relative causes of lost lawsuits from the use of reloads. Because "cops carry hollow points" is the justification for civilians to carry them... so that rounds don't overpenetrate and hurt innocent folks for one...
To be correct on the "dum-dum" thing... I kindly refer the reader to Wikipedia
Expanding bullet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
on the origins of the word in reference to expanding bullets is as follows: "Originally, dum-dum referred to a new type of ammunition produced in the early 1890s at the arsenal in Dum Dum near Calcutta India."
We look in chagrin at the thought that our men and women in the military would violate the Geneva convention by modifying their ammuition to expand... not to mention the fact that it would be wildly inaccurate if modified under field conditions....Most of the guys I have talked to felt very satisfied with the performance of the 30-06 round in WWII...full metal jacket and AP
I hope I haven't been unclear about this... and while I have a few gifts from God... tact isn't usually one I am visited with....
