Comments on: USMC Adopts New Open-tip 'SOST' 5.56 Ammo https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Randy Lahey https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-45692 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:36:03 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-45692 The MK318 Mod-0 SOST is not considered a ‘hollowpoint'(at least by us) it’s considered an open tipped match. To improve accuracy. BTW I don’t think we ever signed the Hague Convention but we abide by it anyway? Or whatever you call the above.

]]> By: MarineGunner https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-42056 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:31:22 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-42056 It’s OK to shoot them with 30mm explosive rounds, blow their arms and legs off with 155mm artillery, drop 1000lb guided bombs on them to vaporize them, but hollow-point 5.56mm rounds that stops them from killing us are inhumane? The PC Nazis are out of control.

]]> By: Mike https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-41775 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:16:28 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-41775 Rules of war……

Only dumb assed U.S. leaders would agree to such idiotic rules

A. You can drop Napalm on soldiers but you cant stab one with a triangle shaped knife

Who thinks up this dumb stuff?

]]> By: Ammoground https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-36026 Thu, 31 May 2012 00:19:45 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-36026 Reco says:
July 1, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Geneva/Hague Convention LOL Fools still believe our enemies follow these rules?

Isn’t this the truth? LOL.

]]> By: Reco https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-5563 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:34:43 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-5563 Geneva/Hague Convention LOL Fools still believe our enemies follow these rules?

]]> By: Aubrey Sonnenberg https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-3863 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:22:17 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-3863 I assume tehy checked that this ammo does comply with Geneva/Hague Convention? I remember there being some debate over the use of “dum dum” bullets vs FMJ in previous conflicts – going back to the Boer War.

Not that I particularly care about how terrorists are killed, but I can imagine the fuss with the left wing press and the rest if the US is accused of “war crimes” with this ammo.

]]> By: Aubrey Sonnenberg https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-3864 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:24:39 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-3864 Matter is resolved in the article:

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/02/marine_SOST_ammo_021510w/

]]> By: Roger D Unruh https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/02/usmc-adopts-new-open-tip-sost-5-56-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:07:44 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=11824#comment-3862 War is a horrible thing, but for now it seems to be a permanent part of the human condition. So give our troops the very best available. I still believe that the best defense is an overwhelming offense.

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