AP Sources: Pistol used in Fort Hood rampage was purchased legally at Texas gun shop

[knight0334]

Originally Posted by mojo

Nope ... I pretty sure that you can load a light 9mm bullet hot enough to get it's velocity high enough to penetrate body armor. It's all about velocity.

Velocity, overall bullet design, or even the shape of the nose of the bullet will go through a vest.. ...pointy bullets tend to pierce much easier than blunt objects. Just take a stick that is sharpened on one end. The pointy end will pierce you, while the blunt end wont even though its the same projectile.

I've pushed .357mag 125gr JHP's so fast that they went through a the front of kevlar vest, including a trauma plate.

[General Geoff]

5.56 FMJs are heavier, not lighter than 5.7 loads.

I meant lighter in reference to most 5.56mm bullets ("on the lighter end of the spectrum"), not necessarily lighter than 5.7 bullets.

[ungawa]

Originally Posted by 1861

Any one heard what caliber & pistol the Lady officer was shooting ?

Good question. Her's was obviously more devastating.

I also have been hearing all day that she was shot in the legs and the arm. Where there is no body armor.

[granuale]

Originally Posted by larrymeyer

Why is it relevant that he purchased the gun legally unless your going to push baning guns. As for the Ammo he was in the MIL had military ID so he could have purchased the ammo legally as well.

Somehow I doubt FN's method of restricting the ammo to military and police is simply requiring any one of the 3.2 million people with police or military ID to show it to the UPS man when he drops off the ammo.

[Fetus]

Originally Posted by granuale

Somehow I doubt FN's method of restricting the ammo to military and police is simply requiring any one of the 3.2 million people with police or military ID to show it to the UPS man when he drops off the ammo.

Right .

The ammo is restricted to law enforcement and military AGENCIES not individual officers .

[autotech6506]

when they described the gun he used this morning on the morning show they said it was a "semi-automatic pistol known as a high caliber cop killer". really? is that necessary? if you only realized how stupid it made you look.

[Ten*K]

unfortunately, they suffer from cranial-rectal inversion syndrome.