It would make sense for dense crowds as hollow points often plug up, fail to expand and overpenetrate like full metal jacket.
I'm also pretty skeptical of the performance of the Glasers against hard bone such as a skull especially at grazing angles. Glasers usually leave a very shallow but massive wound in soft tissue but have minimal ability to penetrate hard material.
This very well may explain why the individual was shot so many times.
You're right on the overpenetration risk, plus, in the early days of close-up CT work, we found that full jacket fragmentation just added to the problems.
Glasers usually leave a very shallow but massive wound in soft tissue but have minimal ability to penetrate hard material.
You're clearly a man who knows the business and a drawback with early glasers was that the frangible tip was made of high density polypropylene and, more often than not was filled with fewer pellets. 15-20 teflons encased in a gelatin tip lends itself to an inpact rate of pressure rise which is almost exponential. So, we found it gave optimum penetration with highly effective shock distribution.
This very well may explain why the individual was shot so many times.>/i>
LOL!! No, that was just technique. We teach the police shooters that we train in our tried and tested methodology. In as close as you can, maximum number of rounds down. Job done.