adktim
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What ammunition do the US Air Marshals use?
Air Marshal ammo
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diamonback68
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Don't know for sure, but it probably is some type of frangible ammo.
dougb1946
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Apparently the notion of explosive decompression sucking someone out a porthole or through a bullet hole is overdone a bit on TV. The plane are engineered to fly with a few holes in them.
If I told ya, I'd hafta... well, you know the rest. ;-)
Gunslinger808
Member
Wasn't an Air Marshall, but when I flew armed it was with standard .40 180 grain HST.
BigBill
Absent Comrade
That new close range frag ammo that's been posted as new ammo here.
J. R. WEEMS
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steveno
Member
I wouldn't say that airplanes are designed to fly with a few holes however the airplane is basically one air leak because of all of the joints and the cabin pressurization system just pumps in more air than can leak out
cant go wrong with a sig
I heard the first 2 bullets are coated with radio active material, so if (God forbid) they have to shoot and the flight crashes,, the authorities will be able to find the "evil doers'".
lonejacklarry
US Veteran
Seriously? You're teasing, right?
Jeff423
US Veteran
Are there still Air Marshall's?
A few holes in an airplane fuselage would mean nothing, and even if the airplane somehow completely lost cabin pressure, it would stay flying and no one would die.
Alpo
Member
Now there's a thought for mythbusters.
Put everyone in parachutes and oxygen gear (just in case), and take a pressurized airplane up to 30,000 feet or so, and then take a 12 gauge and blow a hole in the wall. Better yet, blow out a window.
See if anyone gets sucked out.
Put everyone in parachutes and oxygen gear (just in case), and take a pressurized airplane up to 30,000 feet or so, and then take a 12 gauge and blow a hole in the wall. Better yet, blow out a window.
See if anyone gets sucked out.
They carry Speer/CCI 125 grain Gold Dots in .357 Sig...
dcxplant
Member
Um, that would be a 'no'. Any radioactive anything which is strong enough for that would cause radiation sickness and death.
-edit- I didn't get that you were probably joking.
Transport aircraft are equipped with equipment that will enable them to be found, and 'evil doers' will be easy to track down; they are the ones with .40cal bullet holes in them
Bullets don't do much.
A US Airways pilot shot his aircraft by accident a few years ago, no fuss no muss.
These things are pressurized to over 8psi, and the engines pump vast amount of air into the cabin, so much so that there are huge valves that vent out the excess.
A <.4 inch hole has absolutely zero effect.
During the smoking days, loose rivets were usually detected by "smoking rivets" not because the rivets were smoking, but because leaky rivets left brown streaks of nicotine and tar!
Airplanes, even pressurized ones, are full of holes.
Doug M.
Member
They do carry the Speer Gold Dot 125 grain JHP in .357Sig. I am pretty sure that they are not carrying the 250, but of their traditional DA/SA models. I do not recall, but I think it's a 229. One of the guys I met at an EAG class a few years ago is a FAM, and he swapped a .40 barrel into his issue gun so he could shoot more cheaply since he had to use his own ammo.
I was flying first class last year and was the first to board. There was a young man already seated a few rows back and I figured he was a marshal.
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