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Bullets don't magically stop inside a person, they tend to pass through. If a sniper fired on a single armed person in a crowd, they'd likely kill them and woun
by LyndsySimon 12y ago
Bullets don't magically stop inside a person, they tend to pass through. If a sniper fired on a single armed person in a crowd, they'd likely kill them and wound 2-3 others around them - even if they fired only a single shot.
That didn't work out very well for the British when they did it in Boston in 1770, and I can't imagine it ending well in Ferguson in 2014.
- rdl 12y agoThat's less of a problem now than it was back then. I'd be pretty comfortable taking a center of mass shot using 75gr TAP 5.56mm into a man's chest, especially at a plunging angle, without too much fear of overpenetration. I wouldn't do it with .308 m118lr, but I might do it with the right hollowpoint. If someone in a crowd had drawn a weapon and were firing at the police, I'd consider this an acceptable risk, even if someone might get injured by the shot (the bigger risk would be the crowd moving in front of him, etc.) It beats the alternative of hundreds of police responding with unaimed pistol/rifle/shotgun fire, for sure.