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SCone wrote:As if broken bones and copper jacket fragments have no sharp edges???

You're right of course. I just remember that being part of their vocal argument. But I can tell you from having been involved in the treatment of hundreds of gunshot wounds, broken bones are the exception, not the rule.

FWIW... The internal wound damage cause by the sharp edges were only part of the "problem" decried at the time. Trauma surgeons often blindly probe wound channels with just a gloved finger when trying to find bullet debris and/or shrapnel. Many of them (at least in California where I lived at the time) stated that they worried about lacerating their finger tips on the sharp edges of the bullet jacket and opening themselves up to risk of blood born disease transmissions (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, etc.) while doing such probing.

Now, that may or may not be a load of baloney, but I distinctly remember TV reporters trumpeting that angle at the time.

BTW, I have exactly two 7 round 1911 magazines loaded with 230 gr Black Talons left over from those days... ...and they are not for sale.