From: mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Subject: Re: How easy was the rifle shot?
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:24:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep03.210229.10648@tcsrtp.uucp>, royc@tcsrtp.UUCP writes...
>(Mitchell S Todd) writes:

>>>>	I 've never known hunters
>>>>	to use frangibles for anything other that target practice.

>>>Your description of the characteristics of frangible ammunition fits
>>>very well with the two head shot theory.

>>	It might, if there was any evidence of an impact of frangiable
>>	ammo in the x-rays. Unfortunately, there isn't, as Petty has
>>	attested to. Further, nobody in their right mind would

>....  if an assassin can be said to be in his/her right mind ...

	If it was a professional/semiprofessional assasin, as conspiracy
	mongers claim, then it would be safe to assume, if not expect,
	that the assassin would be "in hios right mind."
	

>>	intentionally use frangiables to try and kill someone.

>Bunk.  An assassin will use a shell for maximum accuracy folowed by maximum
>damage.  Frangibles cover this precisely.  Why else use a dumdum at all?

	Frangiables are far from the "most accurate" bullets you can
	get. Further, they wouldn't cause the "maximum amount of damage,"
	either.

>The term "frangible" is unfortunately used ambiguously to refer to multiple
>types of ammunition:

>	1)  Dumdums, or solid cones designed to fragment at impact
>	2)  Hollow points, dsigned to spread at impact
>	3)  Particulates designed to fragment and spread before/on impact
>	  for maximum damage
>	4)  _Explosives_ designed to pop just after entry.

>The only type of shell an assassin would _not_ be likely to use (other than
>an ordinary shell) in a high energy rifle would be 3).  Since _no tests_
>seem to have been done by the WC on the aspect of chemanalysis, 4) is a rather
>open possibility.  

	"Frangiable ammo," in the sense that conspiracy theorists use
	the term, *is* your number 3. In most usages, fargiable refers
	to compressed-particulate bullets. In the other cases, either
	the descriptive term is used, or, occaisionally, trade names are
	used, ie Silvertips.

>Perhaps the reason the "neutron activation" tests were not
>released is the availability of "footprint" in the trace signature
>therein provided, relative to chemical composition analysis:  

	Or, more likely, the results were just not very conclusive.
	If the WC/FBI etc were as crooked as you claim, they would
	have had positive "results" ready in 1964.	



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