Red Dragon
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I was just surfing the internet, as I am known to do from time to time, and I came across an exerpt for a book titled, "Notes on the Circumstances of a Moving Projectile" by Wirt Robinson. The page that caught my attention mentioned aluminium bullets. I'll include the small passage:
"...a western inventor has advanced a novel proposition. He proposes that the military when employed against mobs should be furnished with cartridges with aluminium bullets. At one hundred yards these would be just as effective as lead, but being almost one-third as light, they lose their velocity rapidly, and at two hundred yards are spent and harmless. The killing of innocent citizens at a distance would thus be avoided."
My question is, has anyone ever actually mass produced an aluminium bullet? Would aluminium bullets be an effective alternative for CQB or home defense?
Forgive my ignorance if these are already out there and very common.
"...a western inventor has advanced a novel proposition. He proposes that the military when employed against mobs should be furnished with cartridges with aluminium bullets. At one hundred yards these would be just as effective as lead, but being almost one-third as light, they lose their velocity rapidly, and at two hundred yards are spent and harmless. The killing of innocent citizens at a distance would thus be avoided."
My question is, has anyone ever actually mass produced an aluminium bullet? Would aluminium bullets be an effective alternative for CQB or home defense?
Forgive my ignorance if these are already out there and very common.