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...greater velocity than older rifles. The higher velocity of ammunition fired by the M-16 results in a significantly higher transfer of energy to human tissue on impact. Since the jacket covering the M-16 ammunition is extremely thin, it will "tumble," or break up, on body impact. The bullet creates a temporary cavity from which it slings tissues radially at high velocity, creating a strong shock wave in surrounding tissue with the result that distant blood vessels, nerves and bones may be unnecessarily injured...
...When the bullet first strikes, it creates suction that draws bacteria from surrounding skin into the wound and the shape of the wound provides impetus for infection. The only way to deal with a high velocity wound is to remove damaged tissue by surgery. Anti-biotic treatment is not sufficient...
...effect of high velocity ammunition fired by the M-16 rifle is similar to that of the "dum-dum bullet" banned by the Hague Declaration of 1899. The Declaration forbade use of "bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body...
...Cabinet, congressional leaders, business executives, Governors and mayors. He bantered with the Governors about football, asked Maryland's Governor Marvin Mandel what was wrong with the Baltimore Colts, and laughed at Mandel's reply: "They lack energy." Three times he told the Governors that the nation must "bite the bullet" to meet the crisis (see cover, ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...people that there had been a gun battle in which the Panthers had tried to shoot their way out. Hanrahan had his men act out their story on TV. He gave the sympathetic Chicago Tribune "exclusive information" consisting mostly of lies and ambiguous photographs. (One of the photographs showed "bullet holes" which turned out to be protruding nails.) Crime lab technicians faked lab reports. Other evidence was destroyed or misrepresented...