Not really. Rifles at close range do tend to end people quite badly - providing the bullet fragments or expands. There are many tales from Iraq/Afghanistan wh

Not really. Rifles at close range do tend to end people quite badly - providing the bullet fragments or expands. There are many tales from Iraq/Afghanistan where this isn't happening with the 5.56mm NATO. And pistols really only kill about 25% of the time. Remember that in order to kill a human with a normal pistol, your target is the size of a pair of ten is balls separated by 18" of rebar. Hit the brainstem, heart, or spinal column and the target goes down NOW. Miss that, and all sorts of odd things can happen, including living through the hit.