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Old September 25, 2000, 11:02 AM   #10
LIProgun
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Whether "the transmission of energy into the target" is a factor in the "effectiveness" of handgun ammunition is debatable. I am aware of no scientific studies conclusively establising this, or even persuasively arguing it.

Moreover, the available evidence seems to run counter to this assertion. Many people have been shot with handguns, and even rifled shotgun slugs, while wearing body armor. In the cases where the projectiles were stopped by the armor, the target doubtless received 100% "transmission of energy." Not only do lots of people in this situation suffer only minor blunt trauma, plenty of them never even knew they were hit.

If transmission of handgun-level energy was a real phenomenon, I think the after-action reports from body armor shootings would be quite different.

Also, as noted, the Geneva Convention has nothing to do with hollowpoint ammo. The "Declaration Concerning Expanding Bullets" adopted at the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899 states, "The contracting parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions."

However, the U.S. did sign on to the 1907 Hague Convention which bans "projectiles ... calculated to cause unnecessary suffering."

For more detail, see:
http://communities.prodigy.net/sportsrec/gz-hague.html
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