QUOTE (kzt @ Jan 5 2010, 07:02 AM)

Rifles can also produce immediate temporary incapacitation due to things like the temporary wound cavity striking the spinal cord. My impression is that this doesn't happen much at all with pistol velocity rounds, and its not common with rifles.
But there are also lots of cases of a .45 slug getting lodged in someone's spine and causing a sucky lifelong paralytic injury or death.