I just saw the evening news on NBC. They had a segment on Sky-Marshall training, a basic piece but interesting nonetheless.
This is what was VERY interesting: when Brokaw started talking about how the bullets the Marshalls use will not penetrate the plane, they showed a demo. The demo guy let off a long burst from some sort of AR-15 carbine at a metal box, then proceeded to show how the metal box disintegrated the special bullets.
Now, all the real Marshalls they showed training all had handguns, but I wonder why they did the demo with a 5.56 weapon rather than a .40, 10mm, 9mm or .45?? Do you think some Marshalls going to get AR-15s? Oh my....
Penguin