This 9mm Thing
Okay, I know people are using
this to slam the 9mm and say it's not fit for combat but I think there needs to be a slight reality check. For those of you too lazy to go to the link and read the slides, basically a soldier got shot in the face at point blank range with a 9mm pistol and the bullet was stopped by his front tooth. He's fine with a hole in his upper lip and he's missing his tooth now.
This is not typical behavior of the 9mm Parabellum. If I had to offer a solution I'd say it was a almost-dud round. It's pure fantasy to imagine that the 9mm is so underpowered that it could be stopped by a tooth. If that was true it would certainly be stopped by the stronger cranial bones, but that doesn't happen; I'd wager a great deal that at least 95% of headshot victims by 9mm pistols are functionally dead. Especially the ones shot in the frontal bone of the cranium, which is incredibly strong, strong enough that it's an accepted fighting technique to block jabs with it in order to break your opponent's hand with no significant damage to yourself.
I don't like the 9mm in the military either (bring back the 1911... now), but this is a moronic argument. Some people are joking but some are also serious, and it's counterproductive to come out with statements like this. If anyone seriously believes this is a valid argument we can always run some scientific tests at point blank range with my Ruger P95 and see what happens.
For the record, depending on the angle of the shot there's a good chance that the soldier would have survived anyway.
