But the organization has taken no formal position yet on hollow-point bullets, which are said to do less damage than the dum-dums.

Some law-enforcement specialists say the hollow-point bullet could save lives.

For those reasons, he said, hollow-point bullets "have become pretty standard in law enforcement."

The standard arguments for using hollow-point bullets are not convincing.

There is little disagreement that hollow-point bullets create bigger wounds.

This was not the first expanding bullet, hollow-point bullets had been developed earlier particularly for use in hunting.

My husband died a month after he was shot in the back with a hollow-point bullet.

Bodies were splayed on the floor, as if pinned there by the hollow-point bullets.

The state has countered with its own expert, who wrote that hollow-point bullets do not always expand.

Fifteen others were killed by hollow-point bullets, four of which passed through other people first.