• aidan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You saved the day right? Oh no that is just the start, since the round fired was a 7.62x51mm NATO (there is no “rubber” round for this firearm) it went straight through the torso of that protester with a box knife and into and then back out of at least a few other people

    High angle means it would likely go into the ground. Also could use hollow point though, I don’t know if police use hollow point on rifles.

    • M0oP0oOP
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      7 months ago

      They use various soft point rounds (you can’t really use hollow points on high velocity rifles). The rounds are basically hollow points with a plastic ballistic tip.

      I would not want to be behind someone shot with a .308 fragmenting round or not.

      Here is a video showing the sort of penetration at 100 yards (what distance police snipers shoot from)

      https://piped.video/watch?v=qB5OizvSPG4