It all depends how much sap it loses.
Correct- the US never did sign the 1899 Hague Declaration concerning expanding bullets.
However as a matter of practicality, FMJ bullets feed into modern-day weapons much more reliably and consistently, so they’re used almost exclusively, except for certain super-accurate sniper rounds that have a non-expanding hollow-point due to the manufacturing process, not for terminal effects.
Back to the OP… I guess it would depend on where you were hit and with what. I imagine a person couldn’t sustain very many .50 BMG hits anywhere, but I suspect someone could probably withstand getting hit with quite a few .17 HM2 rounds, assuming they didn’t hit any major arteries, organs or the central nervous system.
Northfield, wasn’t it?
Correct. But we did sign on to the next Hague convention in 1907 which banned bullets “calculated to cause unnecessary suffering”.
However, what I take issue with is the fact that Kevbo, like so many others, seems to think this has something to do with the Geneva conventions. This has nothing at all to do with the Geneva conventions. (Why does everyone always think it’s one of the Geneva Conventions that started some ridiculous law?) Second, there have been several rulings by military judges declaring hollow points legal for the US Military.
You forgot .45 ACP JHP, a pistol round.
While we’re at it. Let me take this oppurtunity to just go ahead and point out that it is not illegal to shoot people with a 50 CAL. We don’t have to “shoot at their equipment.”
I’m sure you’re right, but at Ft. Benning in 1981, the Range NCO said to “Aim at their canteens”.
I’m quite certain your trainees will get a more educated response. Thank You for your service.
Slowest zinger ever. 
Not necessarily: the way Guinness works, you have to put yourself forward for it, they follow very specific definitions which don’t necessarily match the definitions of other places (“notary” doesn’t mean the same thing in every country) and they don’t check that there isn’t anybody who’s done it “more”. The person they listed as “youngest king” a few years ago became a king at 14yo; the youngest one I know of became a king retroactively at -4mo, and there’s been many other who became kings in childhood.
José Javier Uranga, director of Diario de Navarra, survived 29 bullets (9mm parabellum). It took him one year to recover completely. The bullets went mainly to his torso but didn’t affect any major arteries.
Hey, it takes a long time for a tree to bleed out.
In many of these states it is legal to hunt with 38 special.
Of the states that ban .223 as a dear round in most it is banned because they chose an arbitrary diameter of the bullet as the qualifying criteria.
Well not that arbitrary I think they were trying to ban hunting with 22 rim fire.
The military uses JHP pistol rounds? I thought it was FMJ in the US military all the way except for some of the Sierra Match-King hollowpoint sniper rifle rounds, where the hollowpoint is an artifact of the manufacturing process, and not intended to expand.