GUN NUTS

One-shot kill: new 9mm round has explosive impact

Ben Thomas and three colleagues were driving north out of Baghdad when gunmen opened fire on them. In a brief but intense firefight, Thomas hit one of the attackers with a single shot from his M4 carbine at a distance he estimates was 100 to 110 yards. He hit the man in the buttocks to kill the assailant instantly.
“It entered his butt and completely destroyed everything in the lower left section of his stomach ... everything was torn apart,” Thomas said.
Thomas, a security consultant with a private company contracted by the government, recorded the first known enemy kill using a new — and controversial — bullet, an armor-piercing, limited-penetration round manufactured by RBCD of San Antonio.
The bullet is so controversial that if Thomas, a former SEAL, had been on active duty, he would have been court-martialed for using it.

[Conclusions: The US military is becoming privatised to avoid legal/constitutional problems which may arise from using illegal ammunition or perhaps even shooting people in the back(side).
The 9mm round weighs 60g and is quite expensive at US$35 for a box of 20.]