Those who favor replacing ball ammunition point out that with conventional bullets, an officer must fire more bullets to bring a suspect down and that the ball ammunition can pass through a suspect or ricochet, sometimes hitting unintended targets.
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Following the lead of French and German army commands in developing the " spitzer "-a pointed-tip-bullet shape, later military ball ammunition was loaded with a spitzer bullet fired at a muzzle velocity of with muzzle energy from a long barrel became available.
