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  2. Hollow-point bullet - Wikipedia

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    A hollow-point bullet is a type of expanding bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile's energy into the target over a shorter distance. Hollow-point bullets are used for controlled penetration, where overpenetration could cause collateral damage (such as aboard an aircraft).

  3. Expanding bullet - Wikipedia

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    Drawings from 1870 of a hollow point express rifle bullet before firing (1, 2) and after recovery from the game animal (3, 4, 5), showing expansion and fragmentation Leg wound by an expanding bullet. Expanding bullets, also known colloquially as dumdum bullets, are projectiles designed to expand on impact. This causes the bullet to increase in ...

  4. Stopping power - Wikipedia

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    Fully jacketed bullets penetrate deeply without much expansion, while soft or hollow point bullets create a wider, shallower wound channel. Pre-fragmented bullets such as Glaser Safety Slugs and MagSafe ammunition are designed to fragment into birdshot on impact with the target. This fragmentation is intended to create more trauma to the target ...

  5. Medical examiner’s difficult testimony on Parkland: AR-15 did ...

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    Carmen Schentrup, 16, suffered five wounds, including a lethal shot to the brain. Satz again asked about the significance of the high-powered bullets. Satz again asked about the significance of ...

  6. Hydra-Shok - Wikipedia

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    The Hydra-Shok bullet features a hollow-point construction which contains a distinctive central post in the base of the hollow. This design makes such bullets easily identifiable in autopsy examinations of gunshot victims. [2] The manufacturer stated that the scored jacket and center post design provide a "programmed" expansion. There has been ...

  7. FDA clears lifesaving device that can plug bullet wounds in ...

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    The XSTAT 30 created by RevMedX is expandable, multi-sponge filled syringe used to control life-threatening bullet wounds. It has been in use by the military since April 2014. It has been in use ...

  8. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    The first successful documented case of forensic firearm examination occurred in 1835 when a member of the Bow Street Runners in London matched a recovered bullet from a murder victim to a specific mold in a suspect's home confirming that he made the bullet; this gave further evidence that the bullet maker was the perpetrator and he was ...

  9. “Rust” Director Who Survived Bullet Wound Says Resuming ...

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    Alec Baldwin's movie Rust premiered at Poland's Camerimage Festival on Nov. 19, more than three years after its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on Oct. 21, 2021, after a prop gun Baldwin held ...