Cop Killing Bullets

[MercenaryForHire]

FMJ Pistol Round
Jacketed Hollow Point
Soft-point Rifle Round
.45ACP Hollow Point inside 50 cal Sabot

- M4H

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
What about those "hollow" point bullets? Are those AP?

hollow points are designed to flatten and/or fragment on impact and thus increase the diameter of the hole it punches through the target. Think about it...if you have a fixed amount of force to accelerate an object, and you want to send said object through a hard object, do you want to make the first object wider, like a bowling ball, or narrow, like a pin?

Technically, the amount of force isnt fixed, you could use more or less powder, but lets not muddy the waters...

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Lethal Weapon 3

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Oops, he's right ^^ I should have done some more research.

From your own link:

The claim was made by the media that the teflon also lubricated the point of impact and increased penetration dramatically. That claim, in reference to soft body armor, was convincingly refuted by government test, with the Justice Dept. saying it "has little or no effect on the penetrating qualities of the projectile" and the Treasury Dept. labeling it as "little more than a cosmetic additive." But the fact that Teflon protects the bore from the ill effects of the hard bullet core is incontrovertible. By end of 1981, KTW was offering its products in most handgun calibers. Sales were still limited to police

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: BG4533
Always good to know what bullets penetrate body armor, could come in handy one day.

When in doubt, go with anything in 50 BMG

 

[tcsenter]

Oops, he's right ^^ I should have done some more research.

Your research was superb, you just didn't read your own link. ;-)

After fabricating the 'cop killer bullet' myth, Handgun Control Incorporated and the Violence Policy Center, with the help of their media friends, followed up a few years later with another sensationalized media story in the 'plastic guns' that 'couldn't be seen on X-Ray or detected by metal detectors' (another fabrication proven wrong by government tests and independent investigators).

But it whipped people up into a frenzy and sold a lot of papers, I'm sure, along with a lot of free positive publicity for HCI and a lot of negative publicity for the NRA.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Oops, he's right ^^ I should have done some more research.

Your research was superb, you just didn't read your own link. ;-)

After fabricating the 'cop killer bullet' myth, Handgun Control Incorporated and the Violence Policy Center, with the help of their media friends, followed up a few years later with another sensationalized media story in the 'plastic guns' that 'couldn't be seen on X-Ray or detected by metal detectors' (another fabrication proven wrong by government tests and independent investigators).

But it whipped people up into a frenzy and sold a lot of papers, I'm sure, along with a lot of free positive publicity for HCI and a lot of negative publicity for the NRA.

I own one of the weapons (Glock 17) that they talked about in that 'plastic gun' mess. Any idiot can see that a good part of it is metal. I guess they conveniently forgot about that.