"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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dum-dums

Actually, when this subject first came up I wondered if "frangible"
simply wasn't a non-gun-freak's idea of a soft-nosed bullet.

What do coppers use in their Police Specials and (increasingly) Nines?
Are they brass-jacketed military rounds or soft-nosed?

Typically Federal Hyda-Shocks or Wincester SXT's (SXT is the old "Black
Talon" with a different color and different name to throw of the shrills),
the latter which was designed based on FBI specs after the Miami shootout.
The last thing a cop wants, especailly in an urban environment, is a FMJ
bullet.

Seems to me the
latter would be much safer, and not just in hijacking scenarios. Plus
they would be far more likely to disable the bad guy.

You don;t shoot to "disable", you shoot to KILL.


I've often been amused by the thought that shooting at a man obliges
the shooter to use a brass-jacketed round, while shooting at a deer
obliges him to use soft-nosed shells (or a lead slug, in the county
where I live).

Soft nosed bullets are also COPPER jacketed (not "brass").