While there is probably no enhanced liability in using either, I believe it would be a greater danger to innocent persons to carry ball in a standard defensive use handgun carried in urban areas.
HP or expanding design ammo is designed to reduce over penetration. You can find the FBI tests on line that give the desired penetration envelop. I think it is somewhere around minimum of 12-14" or so and over 20" is considered moving to excessive penetration. Don't quote me, those are ballpark numbers.
Hollow Point ammo does not create a mushroom cloud where the person once stood. Think of them as flesh anchors. Yes they do expand and create a greater diameter permanent cavity, but the main focus to most LE agencies is limiting over penetration.
So it should be easy for your lawyer to prove that hollow-point ammo is safer for the community when that is why most LE agencies say they carry it.
Of course you can't take into consideration anything NY or NJ does as they are making firearms decisions based on what the guns on television and in movies do.
Recently there was discussion in NY on a law that would require police officers to shoot to wound rather than to kill. That is just about as smart as making medical decisions based on the TV show "ER" or or making legal decisions based on an episode of "Boston Legal".
I do agree with what most everyone else here is saying " it is not so much what it is as it is what you do with it". If your decisions are reasonable, actions lawful, and you can prove what you say, I don't think the brand or type of ammo would matter.
CLEET says don't carry reloaded ammo on duty. I've heard lawyers say don't carry ammo you reloaded for personal defense. I don't know of any agencies that allow reloaded ammo on duty so I would say that idea would probably cover personal defense use as well.
I hope this helps.
Fiddy
HP or expanding design ammo is designed to reduce over penetration. You can find the FBI tests on line that give the desired penetration envelop. I think it is somewhere around minimum of 12-14" or so and over 20" is considered moving to excessive penetration. Don't quote me, those are ballpark numbers.
Hollow Point ammo does not create a mushroom cloud where the person once stood. Think of them as flesh anchors. Yes they do expand and create a greater diameter permanent cavity, but the main focus to most LE agencies is limiting over penetration.
So it should be easy for your lawyer to prove that hollow-point ammo is safer for the community when that is why most LE agencies say they carry it.
Of course you can't take into consideration anything NY or NJ does as they are making firearms decisions based on what the guns on television and in movies do.
Recently there was discussion in NY on a law that would require police officers to shoot to wound rather than to kill. That is just about as smart as making medical decisions based on the TV show "ER" or or making legal decisions based on an episode of "Boston Legal".
I do agree with what most everyone else here is saying " it is not so much what it is as it is what you do with it". If your decisions are reasonable, actions lawful, and you can prove what you say, I don't think the brand or type of ammo would matter.
CLEET says don't carry reloaded ammo on duty. I've heard lawyers say don't carry ammo you reloaded for personal defense. I don't know of any agencies that allow reloaded ammo on duty so I would say that idea would probably cover personal defense use as well.
I hope this helps.
Fiddy
