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In the UK (N.Ireland) rubber baton rounds used to (not sure about currently) have to be shot to ricochet off something, so you would fire it a few feet infront
by celticninja 6y ago
In the UK (N.Ireland) rubber baton rounds used to (not sure about currently) have to be shot to ricochet off something, so you would fire it a few feet infront of the protestors with the round deflecting up to the legs/lower body and losing some of its velocity during the ricochet.
- dmurray 6y agoThat might have been the official doctrine, but the British Army absolutely used them to kill people, often firing directly at the head or chest at close range.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agowiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bullet When I was at school they[0] brought round a rubber bullet (I presume it was a plastic bullet actually but they called it rubber). It was a light grey, featureless cylinder, flat at both ends, at least as my memory has it. It was surprisingly light, seemed to have barely any heft at all. We were told it was the very bullet that killed a protester in northen ireland. [0] I can't remember who 'they' were, an ant-violence group I guess.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe official count is 17, if you trust that.
- celticninja 6y agoOh I agree, that was how they were supposed to be used but rarely were.