FMJ yaw and upset performance

[bwaites]

Well, the British are wierd people...

It's human nature, Bill. Most individuals say they want law and order...until a law interferes with doing something they want. Then they seek a loophole in the law, a legal technicality to enable them to do as they wish.

Same with the Hague prohibition of expanding bullets. Tony (and presumably others in the UK and Europe) wants to remain in technical compliance with Hague, but willfully violate the spirit of the agreement.

The US has gone even further, with the JAG approving expanding bullets like TSX and SOST (which clearly violate the Hague) on flimsy legal arguments like they were selected for "barrier blind" performance, not for expanding in soft tissue.

Myself, I find it rather amusing. As I've long said, humans are not rational beings; they are rationalizing ones.

Trust me, I agree on all of these points!

However, the other piece of the US puzzle is that we AREN'T Hague signatories, so it really doesn't matter. I think its ludicrous that the 100 year old Hague outlaws expanding bullets, but then says nothing about fragmentation mines, grenades, smart munitions that expand, etc. I understand that the smart munitions weren't available, but the guys who wrote the Hague guidelines did know about the others.