As a silly sidenote.......just imagine the glee on a prosecutor's face when they discover you load your own self-defense ammo and load it to hotter velocity than the bullet maker's prescribed range.
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A prosecutor will have access to all your social media postings. If you frequent a site like 1911 and shoot someone with a 1911, then obviously you are eaten up with that style of weapon and some type of gun nut. .
If you truly had some illegal bullet or something like loaded with those little flechettes it might be problem. You will recall they asked Kyle a lot of questions about bullets and the AR He was totally ignorant about bullets.. H e
said that hollow points were for shooting people, and that full metal jackets were for hunting. He knew how to work the gun well, he just did not know the details like we do. When asked about the bullets, he said bullets are just bullets. Meaning all bullets do the same function. It was a good answer for his case. I suggest it would be a good answer for any of us.
The simple truth is that Patrick Sherrel Postal , the shooter in Edmond Oklahoma, killed his 14 victims with two 1911s loaded with his National Guard training ammo. He was shooting wad cutters loaded to about 700 fps. I do not recall the bullet weight but think they were 200 grain. I had discussed that with him long before he became the guy termed the word, "going postal". They were reloads. Point is it does not take much for a 45 to do what it needs to do to humans. I had the occasion to meet Mr Sherill on an unrelated matter about 6 months before and in fact discussed his shooting with him. Much later, I was standing a block away from the Edmond Post office as he killed all those people. One of the dead was the wife of a guy that worked for me. We stood there and watched as the local police stormed the building.
Since that time, I spent many years in law enforcement and the military where I carried a 45 every day. I carried a 1911 in harms way in both the CONUS and elsewhere. many days and many miles.
I am a big fan of Mas Ayoob, we started out careers about the same time. However, I do not agree that reloaded ammo is going to cause problems in the courtroom, there are far worse things to do. Having a skull and cross bones on your face or a neck tattoo are sure bias a jury. How about your 1911 grips on your carry gun, same deal, sends the message.
How about social media posts, they tried to nail Kyle on that post where he said he wished he had his AR on a prior occasion when he saw looting on TV.
Just a simply post or two on this site saying you would blow people away who did this or that could show a pre=disposition to murder some one.
Anyway, my position is that whether a bullet goes 850 ot 950 out of the gun it is simply not a big deal. Any defense lawyer could defeat that. If you were to testify simply that it was the most accurate load that went where it was supposed to instead of off to one side, that would explain any questions.
The other risk many say is modified guns. If the manufacturer puts an 8 pound trigger on an AR and you replace it with a hair trigger say a 3 pound one, then you have made the gun more easy to fire and kill people right? Or if you put one of those dot signts on your 1911 and then shoot someone in the head, would the prosecutor not say that you put that special sight on the gun so you could shoot people in the head instead of just stopping them by shooting them in the leg, and of course with such a tool like a dot site, if you could shoot a man in the head, then you could easily have just shot him in the leg to stop him.
Anyway, you get the idea. Do not say dumb stuff on the forums and do not put skull son your carry gun and do not worry about some invisible maybe prosecutor.
Anyway I keep seeing that statement without real examples of how it actually mattered in a real court room. If you know of actual cases where reloads made any difference I would appreciate knowing about them.
My 2 cents.
