Back in the day, I had upper brass ask why we needed hollow point ammo, when 158gr LRN worked just fine for all these years...
Ignorance is the hardest thing to overcome. That and ignorance in training.
Everyone shot at the police range with 30spl. It was hammered into them to never let the brass hit the ground when reloading. Either put it in your pocket, or dump it in the brass can by your firing station.
Then a couple of cops were found dead with their empty brass in the pants pockets. Sometimes it takes a graphic example like that to sink the lessons in.
Those of us who carried rifles usually had to get special permission to do so.
The way I heard the story was that, at the police ranges they were taught to pocket the brass (or put it in a bucket) rather than dump it because the department reloaded the brass so didn't want it damaged. Cops got killed because while reloading their revolvers they instinctively looked around for the bucket to put the brass in rather than just dumping it and reloading.
