NJ Warlord

This part of the reason why a "common sense gun control law" is an oxymoron ;-)

Yeah my grandfather shoots chicken wing, and one handed with a pistol, starts his arm at a fortyfive above the target then pulls the trigger when the sights line up Training has definitely changed. Its complete bull that part of their reasoning for blocking the import is the increase in available m1 carbines and garands to the public and the subsequent "possible" decrease in price through a increase in supply to demand.

One thing the public doesn't realize (among many gun related issues) is the mental mindset that occurs in a life or death shooting. The officers very often won't even remember the sound of his own gun going off or feel the recoil with all the adrenaline pumping. They know they shot their gun and that they had to but that decision was made in a split second they had before they very well may have found themselves perforated instead of the perp. Officers are still just human beings. Training can only go so far to overcome natural instinct, adrenaline and shock. I bet the prosecuter made reference that he could have wounded the gunman instead of killing him, I love that rhetoric.

This sounds like a confusion over escalation of force. That a hollow point bullet would be a escalation of force over a fmj. I don't believe this has any legal basis so long as the shooting is justified as said before. Now questionable home defense shooting gets the home owner dragged through the courts thanks to an over zealous DA, I'd bet he will mention over and over that hollow points were used by the defendant and how deadly and evil they are to use. Double for civil suits. Half of the uniformed public thinks jacketed handgun bullets are armour piercing and therefore jacketed hollow points are the worst of both worlds.