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Originally Posted by farronwolf
Ok, I gotta ask, since I see come up pretty often. Where is there any documentation that using ammo that the local police department uses help with the jury, or is this one of those gun blog myths that has developed a life of its own.
Could not the prosecutor just as easily paint you as a cop wanna be buy carrying the stuff the local PD carries along with your gun and CHL license? They could say, he this guy is a vigilante citizen as easily as they could paint you as a nut job by loading your own super duper home made load?
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The potential concern with reloads is not so much their use in a legitimate self defense situation, which one can agree will usually not see light in a criminal court, where rules of evidence are quite stringent, but in Civil court, where rules of evidence are quite different, innuendo and circumstantial evidence and opinions are allowed and how this may play to a jury of your peers is the great unknown.
Expert witnesses can be used to address most questions/claims one may encounter, but the less potentially controversial evidence or something that can be made to look like it by the opposing counsel, the better off you are.
If in doubt consult both criminal and civil liability lawyers and see what their opinion is, you might find it worth a small outlay of funds.
Personally, I only use reloads for hunting and practice and factory loads for carry and that because of employer policy more than anything.