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[Gary Nichols]

Some of us knew what you meant. :-) I got a chuckle though out of
imagining my M with hollow points... mmmmmmm damage....


On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 12:13, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Let me retract my statement here - the one I wrote on half a cup of
> coffee, apparently.  Military and civialian versions take the same
> *caliber* and *case*.  However, the round is far from the same -
> military weapons are only supposed to fire simple ball munitions - not
> anything with hollow points, pre-fragmented, containing grape, or
> otherwise designed for maximum damage.  AFAIK, this was outlined
> somewhere in the Geneva Accord, but I could be wrong.
> 
> I'm surprised the pedants didn't catch that before I did :)