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beergood

(470 posts) Mon Sep 21, 2015, 07:47 PM Sep 2015

what is an armor piercing bullet? [View all]

is a 7.62 full metal jacket bullet armor piercing? or perhaps a .40 caliber hollow point? or a 30-06? a 30-30? what about the dirty hairy .44 mag round, is that armor piercing?

the media talks a lot about banning armor piercing rounds, but what are they?

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what is an armor piercing bullet? [View all] beergood Sep 2015 OP

I suspect anything made with a steel jacket or depleted uranium Vincardog Sep 2015 #1

Evidently bullets with a steel, iron or brass core-certainly not hollow points of any kind. TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #2

Technically, none of those rounds are "armor piercing." Lizzie Poppet Sep 2015 #3

it depends on if you mean the legal definition or the practical definition Amishman Sep 2015 #4

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