they simply disintegrate.
As for the U.S. military, it’s banned from using RIP bullets by the Geneva Convention, an international agreement to conduct humane warfare, as strange as that sounds.
It was the
Hague Convention. Standard police and self defense hollow points are also banned. I'm not saying the reporters are pulling a Katie Couric, just that the profession doesn't attract the brightest or most curious.
Unlike normal bullets that penetrate the body and stay in one place, an RIP round virtually explodes into tiny metal fragments, as the shrapnel opens multiple “wound channels” to “swim through tissue,” in all directions and penetrate crucial organs. Its creators tout its features on the website of G2, the manufacturer out of Winder, Ga.
There is a good and a bad feature. The good part is that it does not exit and hit an innocent someplace else or go through walls nor ricochet.. The bad thing, based on the tests I have read on it, is that they don't have a shockwave that will incapacitate, which is more important than lethality. Or to put it another way, the home invader is incapacitated and you live to testify against him in court is better than him
beating you to death with a baseball bat while he bleeds to death.
It is like the
Glaser Safety Slug but with tacky and dishonest marketing.
I some in a store once, and was overpriced. This thing is about two bucks around while the standard HP that cops carry, and most civilians, is less than half that.
This is a typical review.
http://www.gunnuts.net/2014/01/27/rip-ammo-radically-invasive-projectile/
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/02/daniel-zimmerman/g2-researchs-rip-ammo-ballistic-testing-phase-one/
Should it be legal? I have this consistent view that is, no public policy should be based on emotion, and people with more technical knowledge, since this is a technical issue, should have more weight than politicians repeating bullshit some advocacy group gets them to believe. That is how we got things like pot bans, certain breeds of dog bans, and other nonsense.
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