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To: Petronski

But bullets are also made with steel. We don’t know if these are hollowed, lead or jacketed. Since you volunteered info, I thought you knew what company it was.


23 posted on 11/07/2007 8:25:09 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

I was speaking generally, not specifically. Sorry for the confusion.


25 posted on 11/07/2007 8:26:29 AM PST by Petronski ("Willard, you can’t buy South Carolina. You can’t even rent it.”)
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To: Calpernia

Bullets are not made of steel (unless you have some alloy harder than steel for your gun barrel).

These bullets would have been manufactured to mil-spec and full copper metal jacket would have been called for.


28 posted on 11/07/2007 8:31:17 AM PST by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior force is the ONLY cure)
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To: Calpernia

“We don’t know if these are hollowed, lead or jacketed.”

Hollow points are against the Geneva Convention. The military can’t use hollow points or “dum dums”. Military and most civilian ammo are copper jacketed with a lead insert and in the case of military ammo has a small steel penetrator. They are copper jacketed to prevent lead fouling in modern firearms. I think Armor Piercing ammo is against the law for civilians now due to the “cop-killer-bullet” propaganda, although there are some old rounds out there.

If I got anything wrong one of you guys correct me.


92 posted on 11/07/2007 12:26:46 PM PST by dljordan
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