"Carver: Oh. I’m lucky I can tell you how many I found. I don’t know. There were lots of them, OK? This type of weapon is not, uh … the bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy—this is very clinical. I shouldn’t be saying this. But the energy is deposited in the tissue so the bullet stays in [the tissue].
[In fact, the Bushmaster .223 Connecticut police finally claimed was used in the shooting is designed for long range field use and utilizes high velocity bullets averaging 3,000 feet-per-second, the energy of which even at considerable distance would penetrate several bodies before finally coming to rest in tissue.]"
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From former Marine Corps marksmanship trainer Jim Fetzer:
"As a former Marine Corps officer who used to supervise marksmanship training, I studied the video and replied with my observations about what could be seen, in relation to the handgrip or magazine (which extend from the bottom of the weapon) as opposed to the carrying handle (which extends from the top):
Allan,
My observations:
(1) It looks like a Bushmaster, because the handgrip is visible in some of the frames.
(2) He is ejecting rounds from the chamber, which appear to be of a small caliber.
(3) Shotgun shells would be much, much larger and very obvious upon ejection.
I recommend obtaining confirmation, but this appears to have been the Bushmaster.
Jim
P.S. I am going to contact some friends confirm my observations." (Jim Fetzer)
.223 rounds are not designed to stay in the tissue. And he's not referring to hollow point, because he begins his explanation with, "This type of weapon..."
There are several "this type of weapons" designed to shoot bullets that deposit energy in the tissue "so the bullet stays in," but an AR/XM-15 is not one of them. Those rounds would have gone straight through and kept going. No way on earth do .223 rounds "stay in the tissue" because of the way "this type of weapon" is designed. This type of weapon is designed, in fact, to do expressly the opposite.
"Ironically, "high energy" projectiles have left wounds on battlefields that need no surgery at all; no excision of tissue."
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So what caliber was Carver really looking at when he notated wounds in which the bullet stayed in the tissue?