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New Armor Piercing Ammo Ban in Oklahoma?
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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2084633" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>If you read the statute, it only applies to bullets with a fluorocarbon coating (like teflon). Bullets of this sort are very rare, so the statute doesn't actually prohibit very many things. But as I said before, it definitely needs to be repealed. It is all based on a BS media-fueled rumor from the 1980s which held that giving a normal handgun bullet a teflon coating would allow it to penetrate a cop vest. The opposite is actually true... teflon slightly deteriorates penetration of kevlar. The rumor is based on an experimental line of handgun ammo designed to provide greater penetration of car doors and glass. It used a brass bullet that wore out barrels faster than lead core ones, so they added the teflon coating to decrease barrel wear, and found that it caused the bullets to deflect less from hard barriers. It never had anything to do with aiding penetration of body armor. But the media took the "cop killer" narrative and ran with it, and it apparently had an impact of the idiots in the Oklahoma legislature in 1982.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2084633, member: 4235"] If you read the statute, it only applies to bullets with a fluorocarbon coating (like teflon). Bullets of this sort are very rare, so the statute doesn't actually prohibit very many things. But as I said before, it definitely needs to be repealed. It is all based on a BS media-fueled rumor from the 1980s which held that giving a normal handgun bullet a teflon coating would allow it to penetrate a cop vest. The opposite is actually true... teflon slightly deteriorates penetration of kevlar. The rumor is based on an experimental line of handgun ammo designed to provide greater penetration of car doors and glass. It used a brass bullet that wore out barrels faster than lead core ones, so they added the teflon coating to decrease barrel wear, and found that it caused the bullets to deflect less from hard barriers. It never had anything to do with aiding penetration of body armor. But the media took the "cop killer" narrative and ran with it, and it apparently had an impact of the idiots in the Oklahoma legislature in 1982. [/QUOTE]
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