02-13-2013, 02:09 AM
BjornF16 Wrote:The "open tip match" (OTM) gets around the Hague Convention primarily because al Qaeda isn't a "contracting party" to the Hague Conventions...Actually, that isn't really why, although I suppose it could be used as a legal rationale. IIRC, the US JAG authorized use of Sierra MatchKing hollowpoints mainly on the technicality that they were not designed to expand in flesh.
And BTW, the US is also not a signatory to Hague Declaration III. :eek:
Quote:...not sure if NATO would adopt the round.Just offhand, I don't know of any NATO nations (other than the US) that use hollowpoints. Being Hague signatories, the Europeans tend to abide strictly by the letter of the law (in contrast to the US). Some of them have even gone so far as to modify construction of their FMJ projectiles to try to eliminate fragmentation in soft tissue.