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| Dumdum bullets |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
Everybody knows that dum-dum bullets are prohibited in the war area. But we all know that this is the most braked rule in the history of the conflicts. The expanding- or "dumdum" bullets what are actually known as the "crossheads" are very effective against the animal- and other living targets. The form of the dum-dum bullet is sometimes that there is a small hole in the bullets head, what increases it stopping power. The penetration capacity of those bullets is weak, and that's why it can be used in the airplanes against hijackers.
Dumdum bullets are very powerful against animals, and that's why they are very popular for hunting. But the bad reputation of the dumdum ammunition had forced to create the new name for this very frighten ammunition type and normally the dumdum ammunition are sold as the "hydro shock" or "enhanced effect" ammunition. There is a very deadly version of this bullet, what is known as the "Glaser". This bullet is mentioned to use in situations, where is needed the extremely sharpness like sniping. The Glaser bullet is very sharp because the hole in the head of it is filled with plastic, and that makes it more stable, and this is the good bullet to use in the high power marksman rifle.
The problem of those bullet types is that they are strictly against the international law, but in the law enforcement is they are legal. Modern military and weapon technology give the change to avoid those contracts in the very nasty way. Sometimes there will be production mistakes in the bullet series. In this particular mistake, the nucleus of the bullet is filled the way that the head of the bullet is hollow.
So there is a little chamber in the head of the bullet, what makes possible that the bullet acts like dumdum bullet when it hits the target. When the projectile will be flattened, it delivers the impact energy in the shorter range, and that will give the extreme stopping capacity for ammunition. In other versions, the hollow area in the nose of the bullet is sculpted in the form, what allows turn sideways, when it hits the target.
It makes the bullet cause extremely damages and injuries because it is unstable. The problem of this devastating ammunition is that the user doesn't know that the ammunition, what is loaded inside the weapon is illegal for military actions. And of course, the normal and legal bullets can also cause very bad injuries, when they leave inside targets body. In this case, the extremely slow bullet does stay in the person body and cause the painful and certain death.
The background of this ammunition type is from 1940's when Germany's secret service Gestapo created the "Nachpatrone" for anti-guerrilla operations. The patron is loaded only half of the gunpowder than normal ammunition, and that makes it very low noise and also lethal ammunition. The bullet itself is standard and legal military bullet, but the low level of the powder makes it very slow.
The problem of using this ammunition in the automatic weapons is that makes very little explosive gas, what causes problems with the automatic system's plunger. That's why when this ammunition is used, must the gun equip with the bolt stock, what will adjust the gun by manually. The stock will operate like the pump-action shotgun, and it is used in many rifle type automatic weapons because if the ammunition will be malfunctioned, can it removed very fast.
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