I recently finished reading a book regarding the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan where the author(s) related that protagonist John Hinckley purchased ammunition known as "Devastators" off the shelf from a retail store for his .22 rf caliber, Rohm "Saturday Night Special" revolver; having "...especially brutal bullets designed to blow a hole in the target by exploding on impact, spewing hot shrapnel."
Upon learning that a bullet lodged in the lower left neck of Secret Service Officer Tom Delahanty was an "unexploded Devastator" that might "detonate at any minute", surgeons operated on Officer Delahanty only after donning bulletproof vests.
I like to think that I can learn something new every day but this account, claiming store-bought, exploding .22 bullets are/were available to the general public seems completely preposterous to me from all that I think I know about rimfire (or centerfire, for that matter) ammunition.
I have asked this question on a couple of different gun sites. Have I learned something new?
Upon learning that a bullet lodged in the lower left neck of Secret Service Officer Tom Delahanty was an "unexploded Devastator" that might "detonate at any minute", surgeons operated on Officer Delahanty only after donning bulletproof vests.
I like to think that I can learn something new every day but this account, claiming store-bought, exploding .22 bullets are/were available to the general public seems completely preposterous to me from all that I think I know about rimfire (or centerfire, for that matter) ammunition.
I have asked this question on a couple of different gun sites. Have I learned something new?
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