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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.

That's what I didn't get. Certainly any magnum load is going to cause severe body damage to the recipient unless the body armor is very high-tech and far too expensive for police department budgets.

The link described every box of ammunition I've ever bought except for a plinker .22 rifle I gave my son a few years ago.

I guess it really doesn't matter. The amendment was soundly defeated, but trying to make sense of it wasn't easy.

As much as anything, it's a battle over definitions. If you get the media and the sheeple to adopt your defintitions, you've almost won the war.

They saw how successfully they renamed semi-auto rifles "assault weapons," so they're trying to do the same thing with centerfire rifle ammo by calling it all "armor piercing cop killer bullet" ammo.

It works like a charm with their willing accomplices in the media, and the sheeple swallow it without blinking.