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echo: guns
to: DAVID RODGERS
from: VERN HUMPHREY
date: 1996-05-31 06:41:00
subject: Mercury Points

DR>I was wondering your thoughts on mercury points?  Around here people are
DR>poping up with a bullet that's point is a hollow point filled with mercury
DR>and sealed with a thin layer oof something. Apparently its supposed to 
ill
DR>whatever it hits.  Wondering your thoughts on this?
What's it supposed to do?
This idea came from Fredrick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" -- I know of
no one who's ever seriously loaded such ammuntion.  Forsyth's books are
riddled with old wives tales about guns and explosives.
If you want explosive expansion -- use bullets designed for such work.
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