Humane bullets...
All bullets kill.
Some kill faster than others.
Expanding bullets tear up soft tissue pretty bad. FMJ's at least have the possibility of making a "neat" hole.
But "dumdums" from rifles and piano wired shot from shotguns will literally rip a limb off. Not pretty at all. Effective though.
Clarification though, the US is a signatory member of the Geneva Convention. But the Geneva Convention is not the limiting document on expanding bullets. The Hague Convention states, "The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions."
The "pierced with incisions" refers to dumdum's. When I last got a legal brief on the Law of Land Warfare the presenter showed pictures of dumdum wounds coming from some of the conflicts in Africa. It was rather brutal.
Jimro
All bullets kill.
Some kill faster than others.
Expanding bullets tear up soft tissue pretty bad. FMJ's at least have the possibility of making a "neat" hole.
But "dumdums" from rifles and piano wired shot from shotguns will literally rip a limb off. Not pretty at all. Effective though.
Clarification though, the US is a signatory member of the Geneva Convention. But the Geneva Convention is not the limiting document on expanding bullets. The Hague Convention states, "The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core, or is pierced with incisions."
The "pierced with incisions" refers to dumdum's. When I last got a legal brief on the Law of Land Warfare the presenter showed pictures of dumdum wounds coming from some of the conflicts in Africa. It was rather brutal.
Jimro