Breivik may have used poisoned dum-dum bullets. That is the headline in The Foreigner, Norway’s News in English website.
Victims of the Utøya shootings may still be at risk after it was discovered that Breivik may have poisoned his ammunition prior to his murderous rampage.
In his 1,500-page manifesto he mentions ordering “99 per cent pure nicotine” from a “Chinese online supplier”.
“3-4 drops will be injected in hollow point rifle bullets,” wrote Breivik, “which will effectively turn it into a lethal chemical weapon.”
I am not gonna blame the Norwegian Journalists. Ever since I found out that the Norway SRT had to look for the keys of the weapons locker before responding to the attack in Utøya, it is pretty clear that there is no gun culture up there and these Hollywood fantasy tidbits will make sense to them.
What is funny in a sad way is that they are horrified about nicotine and apparently more so than the bullets themselves. I mean, nicotine is bad to your health, right?
In the meantime I’ll wait for the CSGV post regarding the exploding nuclear chemical warfare ammunition created for the NRA and exported directly to Norway for the massacre.
Pure nicotine in sufficient quantities is lethal. The LD50 in humans runs around 0.5-1.0 milligram of nicotine per kilogram of body weight. Folks use it as an insecticide.
Except for two things: Bullets get very hot traveling down the barrel of a firearm. Subsonic rounds reach 600 F and supersonic rounds well above 700 F. Nicotine evaporates at 477 F. Add to that the spin of the bullet and most of the nicotine will be gone by the first foot out of the muzzle of the gun.
at about 1 mg/ml (density of water) that means you would need to ram about 20 ml into your bullet-almost a shot glass full of nicotine.
LC… maybe the guy from Son of Guns will invent a Saiga Shotgun that can shoot deadly Nicotine shot glasses full auto.