A big problem is that "armor piercing" is not well defined in a technological sense. In popular or political parlance it can have a large variety of meanings (a common one is a bullet which can go through the lightest ballistic vest made - and this then includes nearly all hunting ammo plus many handgun rounds.)
A way around this has been to define this as being a bullet made of other materials than led (excepting standard gilding metal jacket.) This then include the very popular imported steel jacketed rifle ammo which isn't particularly more armor piercing than the standard jacketed bullets. I'm not aware of any bullets in common use which were designed to pierce body armor or the armor of armored vehicles (e.g. made with tungsten penetrators or with depleted uranium.) But they are great to talk about. --henry schaffer On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Phil Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Gov. Granholm challenged other panel discussion members over why they need > armor piercing bullets. Armor piercing handgun ammo is banned isn't it? > Or did I miss a repeal? If she thinks the president's initiative will ban > rifle bullets that can pierce armor, that is a problem for rifle owners. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or > wrongly) forward the messages to others. >
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