[Dog Gone]

I don't think handgun ammo was exempted from the amendment. Not from the link posted at the top of this thread, anyway.

[TigersEye]

I didn't read the Kennedy amendment. I just assumed that any so-called AP ammo would have to at least pierce body-armor. Most pistol ammo won't. Some pistols shoot high power rifle ammo.

[TigersEye]

Just read it. Total gobbledy gook. It uses the phrase 'standard ammunition for the same caliber.' What's that? A lot of gun writers might use that phrase but most folks who read them know it's loosely used.

Does that mean solid lead, lead semi-wadcutter, full metal jacket, semi-jacketed lead solid, jacketed soft point, semi-jacketed soft point, semi-jacketed hollow point, lead hollow point, flat nosed jacketed solid, brass solid, brass jacketed steel with a lead core, ....? How about phosphorous coated tracer rounds, incendiary rounds and/or HE (high explosive) rounds? (No, I guess those wouldn't be standard but they are all legal and on the civilian market.)

Which of the first group is standard in any caliber or loading? Any one of them at all if put on a .30-30 cartridge with an appropriate powder charge for its weight would punch through body-armor with ease.