Safer from fire crackers.
“The ATF argued that banning 5.56mm armor-piercing bullets that can be used in handguns would protect police officers, but emphasized that it was not attempting to ban all types of bullets.”
That is a lie. By the definition in LAW the Green Tip SS109 and M855 are NOT A.P.
“(B) The term “armor piercing ammunition” means—
(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or
(ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile.”
The SS109 is not intended for use in a pistol any more than a cylinder of pure nitrogen is a poison gas (destructive device) that it can kill a person does not change its INTENDED purpose.