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A hollow-point bullet is a type of expanding bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile's energy into the target over a shorter distance. Hollow-point bullets are used for controlled penetration, where overpenetration could cause collateral damage (such as aboard an aircraft ).
German African activist organizations blamed racism for the shooting, saying that lethal force would not have been used had the attacker been an ethnic German. It was also alleged that the recent change to hollow-point bullets made the usage of Bavarian police firearms more deadly than necessary. Both arguments were refuted in official police ...
AlliedBarton was founded as Allied Security in 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a provider of contracted security guards and related services. [3]In 2000, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based Spectaguard acquired Allied Security and took on the Allied Security name. [4]
However, some manufacturers continue to coat their bullets with various compounds, notably Teflon and molybdenum disulfide, as a protective layer against barrel wear. Not a lot of performance data is available for these bullets, although the 9mm offering was reputed to push a 100- grain (6.5 g) projectile at a velocity of 1,350 feet per second ...
The hollow point fills with body tissue and fluids on impact, then expands as the bullet continues to have matter pushed into it. This process is informally called mushrooming, as the ideal result is a shape that resembles a mushroom —a cylindrical base, topped with a wide surface where the tip of the bullet has peeled back to expose more ...
AlliedBarton was founded as Allied Security in 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a provider of contracted security guards and related services. [9]In 2004, Allied Security acquired Malden, Massachusetts-based Security Systems Inc. (SSI) and Atlanta, Georgia-based Barton Protective Services to form AlliedBarton Security Services - creating the largest American-owned contract security services ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
With the issuance of CO/PD 04-19REV J [23] on 1 October 2018, the ESAPI protection standards were changed again. The protection requirements from 7.62×51mm NATO M80 ball and 5.56×45mm M855 were removed, and a high first-shot V 50 requirement was added for the .30-06 M2 AP projectile. These plates are indicated by the text "ESAPI - REV.