Iraq - Butt-Busting Bullets Blow Away Bad Guys

Army Times
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"In a brief but intense firefight, [Ben Thomas] hit one of the 
attackers with a single shot from his M4 carbine at a distance 
he estimates was 100 to 110 yards. He hit the man in the 
buttocks, a wound that typically is not fatal. But this round 
appeared to kill the assailant instantly. 'It entered his butt 
and completely destroyed everything in the lower left section of 
his stomach ... everything was torn apart,' Thomas said. Thomas, 
a security consultant with a private company contracted by the 
government, recorded the first known enemy kill using a new - 
and controversial - bullet. The bullet is so controversial that 
if Thomas, a former SEAL, had been on active duty, he would have 
been court-martialed for using it. The ammunition is 
'nonstandard' and hasn't passed the military's approval 
process... The frangible APLP ammo will bore through steel and 
other hard targets but will not pass through a human torso, an 
eight-inch-thick block of artist’s clay or even several layers 
of drywall. Instead of passing through a body, it shatters, 
creating 'untreatable wounds.'"