It's to make it less likely they'll be able to make that last big effort to reach the detonator button after being shot
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Thu 12 May 2011, 10:58,
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...yeah.
Not sure your exit wound logic works. JHPs don't always stop inside a target. If they don't, the exit wound they leave is massively larger than a standard round.
As I said, I can see the logic in the Police issuing them from an anti-terror perspective. I find myself wondering how many suicide vest-equipped terrorists the Met have had to shoot in the past decade, and how many of those were able to trigger their bomb due to not being dead after the first bullet. Is that *really* a justification?
I'm a little wary of people in power making these changes under the excuse of "the terrorist threat" which, to be honest, we've seen pretty much cock-all of in this country; MI5 and "Counter Terrorism Command" (ie Special Branch) seem more than adept enough at intercepting terrorists before they strike. Are JHPs *really* necessary for standard firearms coppers, who traditionally deal with idiots waving guns about rather than loony suicide bombers?
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Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Thu 12 May 2011, 11:51,
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