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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by jki275 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:42PM (#18240849)
The US Military, in my experience, has never actually applied the Hague convention to hollow points. There may be plenty of legal articles, but practice has been different. I know for a fact socom has been using them since the 80s and maybe before.

Here's an actual legal analysis that explains the ridiculous footing the Hague convention "dumdum bullet" ban (because that's what it was) has: http://www.prep-blog.com/PDF/Hague-Hollow-Points-Berry.pdf

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by nate_meurer on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:49PM (#18241553)
I agree the whole thing is stupid. Every law enforcement officer in the country carries hollow point ammo. I think the military will keep nominally requiring ball ammo the next time we fight a conventional war, but not be too concerned if soldiers mix in some HP now and then. As you point out, not too different than what they already do.
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