CS: Target-police and pistols

2000-08-23 Thread John Hurst
From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our police are generally prohibited from using fully automatic weapons, the Met anti-terrorist squad have some but they are rarely deployed. Unless someone can correct me I don't believe that anyone has ever been shot in GB with a full-auto by a police

CS: Misc-Ricochets

2000-08-23 Thread John Hurst
From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surely there's someone with some practical experience of experimentation with riccochets? What else is sloped armour about on AFVs? Norman, The slope effectively increases the thickness and the chance of a richochet is a bonus. IIRC one of

CS: Pol-gun safety

2000-08-23 Thread Steven Kendrick
Teaching Gun Safety Does Gun Education in School Really Save Lives? By Claire Moore Aug. 20 ùIt may be the only issue people on both sides of the gun control debate can agree on. Proponents and foes of gun control say they want gun education and avoidance programs taught in public

CS: Misc-Ricochets

2000-08-23 Thread Jim Franklin
From: "Jim Franklin", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [.] Surely there's someone with some practical experience of experimentation with riccochets? What else is sloped armour about on AFVs? [.] Ask DERA. Modern kinetic energy penetrators are very efficient and as a consequence the glacis plates of

CS: Pol-Police Hollow points

2000-08-23 Thread Richard Loweth
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is another answer to the argument for 9mm JHP. So called "stopping power" can be had by either a "light and fast" bullet or by a "heavy and slow" bullet. This dates back to before the beginning of this century, to wit, Churchill at Omdurman with