Yes, but a small caveat: only in cases where regular rounds will not cause additional collateral damage. Hollowpoints were designed to pierce armor then shatter or to melt on soft tissue to avoid hitting other nearby entities.
I’m not sure about the armor piercing bit, but an illustrative example of the modern arguments for the use of hollowpoints would be in police work; say, a raid in somewhere crowded, or in a soft walled environment like a drywalled apartment complex or a plane.
Hollowpoints would stop in a person, rather than going through them (most of the the time) and thereby preventing penetration through too many walls, penetrating the skin of an aircraft or killing bystanders behind targets. Most of the projectile energy will be lost in the first soft target, minimizing collateral damage.
Yes, but a small caveat: only in cases where regular rounds will not cause additional collateral damage. Hollowpoints were designed to pierce armor then shatter or to melt on soft tissue to avoid hitting other nearby entities.
I’m not sure about the armor piercing bit, but an illustrative example of the modern arguments for the use of hollowpoints would be in police work; say, a raid in somewhere crowded, or in a soft walled environment like a drywalled apartment complex or a plane.
Hollowpoints would stop in a person, rather than going through them (most of the the time) and thereby preventing penetration through too many walls, penetrating the skin of an aircraft or killing bystanders behind targets. Most of the projectile energy will be lost in the first soft target, minimizing collateral damage.
Hard to make an argument about crowds in warfare, you’re generally not supposed to attack civilian crowds in the first place.