News articles about negligent discharges seldom identify the type of gun involved. But yesterday we speculated that it was a Glock. But what kind of ammunition was loaded in the gun?
A WaPo article dated October 31, 2015, titled FBI returns to 9mm rounds, once shunned as ineffective said that the FBI would be adopting the 9mm 147 grain Speer Gold Dot G2.
[FBI’s Defensive Systems Unit Special Agent Ray] Cook says that the lighter the bullet, the faster the gun can “drive” the round into the target. For the FBI, that translates into 12 to 18 inches of penetration into the human body. The 9mm’s weight, Cook added, also increases an agent’s accuracy in a gunfight, according to the findings of a 2014 FBI report that was leaked online last year.
Luckygunner.com conducted extensive defensive round testing in 2015, and the Speer 147 gr Gold Dot Speer 147 gr Gold Dot passed the test.
Going back to the news report about the discharge:
He picked the gun up and it went off, shooting another person in the leg. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital in "good" condition, according to police.
A bullet capable of 12 to 18 inches of penetration could go clean through a typical human leg. Bullets tend to deflect off of bones, so it's possible that no bones were broken. But still, a bullet engineered to expand on impact and stop a human being could do some significant damage to the muscle and connecting tissue in a leg. We'll just have to wait for further reporting to know the ultimate outcome.
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10:35 AM 6/5/2018
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