Posted on 02/29/2008 5:32:07 AM PST by OKSooner
A safety alert put out by the Atlanta Police Department's homeland security unit, warns officers to be extra careful because of the ammunition.
Brian Hill with Tulsa's U.S. Shooting Academy agreed to help test the ammunition.
The ad for the ammunition says it shoots dozens of steel darts that cause unbelievable trauma.
Police are facing a deadly new threat. It's a new type of ammunition that can penetrate a bullet-proof vest. News On 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright found anyone can buy it.
A safety alert put out by the Atlanta Police Department's homeland security unit, warns officers to be extra careful because of the ammunition.
Brian Hill with Tulsa's U.S. Shooting Academy agreed to help test the ammunition.
The academy teaches everything from basic self-defense to highly specialized weapons training to citizens, police officers and the military.
A police vest was put on a dummy and Hill took a couple of shots.
It could be seen that the vest was penetrated all the way through.
The ad for the ammunition says it shoots dozens of steel darts that cause unbelievable trauma.
Hill says NATO would not allow the military to use something like this, because although it can kill, it's intended to maim. He says to get self-protection, there are much better choices.
"If stopping an intruder in your home is your goal, this isn't the first or second ammo you should choose, its way down the list," said Hill.
The results were shown to tactical expert Sergeant Luke Sherman with the Tulsa Police Department.
Sergeant Sherman says officers worry more about seeing a gun than what ammunition is inside, but it's still hard to understand, marketing something that penetrates a vest.
"Millions of Americans have firearms and are always experimenting with new things. Maybe it was somebody's idea to market something that will be neat down the road, but, to me, it's not," said Sergeant Sherman.
One of the shells contains a dozen steel darts, just as advertised.
Hill shot the vest with a .40-caliber firearm. The bullet did not penetrate the 15-year-old vest.
The ammunition is legal, it's just a reminder the dangerous new threats police officers constantly face.
One sergeant recently briefed his squad on this new ammunition, just to make them aware it exists.
Oddly enough having such a short barrel reduces the recoil momentum must be conserved ie the push back has to equal the push forward, the short barrel reduces the speed and the momentum. fortunatelyl for the person firing it most of the energy in the powder is wasted
Is that the little shrapnels of metal? haven't heard of that term.
Tell me more about that. I’d like to know. I am a huge fan of the black talon as a home defense round. Smaller caliber but with more stopping power. say a 9mm vs. a 40 standard slug. Thoughts?
All that was fine until cops starting looking like the military, being outfitted like the military, and treating the rest of us like the enemy in an occupied country.
As soon as all of that started happening, I bailed on supporting the cops.
Flechettes are like little arrows you can load into a shot shell. Buy some, they’re cheap: http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/AMM005-57714-1395.html
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Thank goodness for google!
Visit the link, the spoof is pretty well written!
Been there, done that (it was my source)....... I was just trying to keep the spoof alive til you came along, ya killjoy. (joking)
Well, since I’ve got a few toys around the house, I stopped to imagine the size of the handgun that might handle such a round......and I sez.......”naaaahhhwww....no way!”
But ya did make me look!
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You live in the wrong place. Where I am the cops ride one in a car, wear short sleeves in the summer, don't even put on the hat anymore and carry nothing but a nine. If that's too military for you I suggest you try London.
wow! thanks for the link.
BREAKING NEWS: THE MEDIA HAS CAUGHT UP TO THE 1960s!!!
Here, you can buy a thousand of them for about $25:
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/AMM005-57714-1395.html
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