You may recall President Biden telling a reporter his concerns with the 9x19mm cartridge, to wit: how a 9mm round could “blow your lungs out”.
“They showed me an X-ray and said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in a lung, and we can probably get it out and save a life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House. “The idea these high-caliber weapons — there's simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting. … There's only one reason for something that can fire 100 shots.”
Well, two companies in the tactical/firearms sphere have teamed up to make lung-removing ammunition a reality. In name anyway. These cartridges won't do anything that any other ballistically equivalent 9mm round would do.
The name Blood Eagle comes from a horrific torture reportedly employed by Norse peoples during the “Viking Age”. Smithsonian Magazine describes the process as a “…practice that allegedly found torturers separating the victim's ribs from their spine, pulling their bones and skin outward to form a set of ‘wings,' and removing their lungs from their chest cavity.”
Obviously a 9mm round isn't going to that to someone. Maybe a 12.7 Anti-Materiel Rifle (AMR) could! But you can't get nearly as many of those rounds into a little box.
Here's how one of the companies describes the newly branded ammo option:
“In a collaboration with our friends over at Fort Scott, we've come up with these limited edition 9mm 115gr Blood Eagle Lung-Removers to commemorate one of the most asinine things any president has ever stated. These 115gr 9mm TUI (Tumble Under Impact) rounds, unlike our current President, are no joke.”
Learn more about 9mm Blood Eagle Lung-Removing Ammunition!
