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F.y.i. us army orders $50 million barrett mrads in 300 prc
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<blockquote data-quote="sable tireur" data-source="post: 1597377" data-attributes="member: 27307"><p>Declarations from the Hague Treaty of 1899:</p><p></p><p><strong>Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Use of Bullets which can Easily Expand or Change their Form inside the Human Body such as Bullets with a Hard Covering which does not Completely Cover the Core, or containing Indentations</strong></p><p>This declaration states that, in any war between signatory powers, the parties will abstain from using "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet" target="_blank">bullets which expand or flatten easily</a> in the human body." This directly banned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-point_bullet" target="_blank">soft-point bullets</a> (which had a partial metal jacket and an exposed tip) and "cross-tipped" bullets (which had a cross-shaped incision in their tip to aid in expansion, nicknamed "Dum Dums" from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum_Dum_Arsenal" target="_blank">Dum Dum Arsenal</a> in India). <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>It was ratified by all major powers, except the United States</strong></span>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907#cite_note-15" target="_blank">[15]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sable tireur, post: 1597377, member: 27307"] Declarations from the Hague Treaty of 1899: [B]Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Use of Bullets which can Easily Expand or Change their Form inside the Human Body such as Bullets with a Hard Covering which does not Completely Cover the Core, or containing Indentations[/B] This declaration states that, in any war between signatory powers, the parties will abstain from using "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet']bullets which expand or flatten easily[/URL] in the human body." This directly banned [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-point_bullet']soft-point bullets[/URL] (which had a partial metal jacket and an exposed tip) and "cross-tipped" bullets (which had a cross-shaped incision in their tip to aid in expansion, nicknamed "Dum Dums" from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum_Dum_Arsenal']Dum Dum Arsenal[/URL] in India). [COLOR=#ff0000][B]It was ratified by all major powers, except the United States[/B][/COLOR].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907#cite_note-15'][15][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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