There at least used to be special armor piercing handgun ammo that
was made, but they were LEO only. I remember seeing a round at a
firearms class I took a while ago (there were police in the
class). IIRC the rounds were tungsten core. It was years ago so I
may not remember correctly.
Looking online one reference I see is to the Swedish made M39b round,
stainless steel core, etc.
So yes, there are REAL armor piercing handgun rounds, but I have
never seen any available to civilians. Like many things in the
firearms world, what is in the popular culture (and probably
Congress) is mostly hokum and myth.
Jason Goertz
02:03 PM 1/20/2013, Henry Schaffer wrote:
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
<<mailto:[email protected]>[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
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