Hollow points pass through Kevlar? While I could easily be mistaken, that doesn’t sound right to me. I would have thought that it would expand against the Kevlar and that would keep it from penetrating.
the ammo is supposedly for “target practice”
um... why do you need to use expensive hollow point bullets to shoot paper targets?
Lets just assume this is all innocent... at the very least it’s WASTEFUL to have the government buying expensive hollow point bullets for people to train with shooting paper targets.
In a country that is going broke that cant even afford tours of the white house, I would think buying less expensive bullets for employees to target shot with would be a high priority!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon-coated_bullet
That’s what good newspapers use to do - they’d clear up the confusion. Really, we need more answers...
From the above link:
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In 1982, NBC ran a television special on the bullets, supposedly against the requests of many police organizations, wherein it was argued that the bullets were a threat to police. Various gun control organizations in the U.S. labeled Teflon-coated bullets with the epithet “cop killers” because of the supposedly increased penetration the bullets offered against ballistic vests, a staple of the American police uniform. Many erroneously focused on the Teflon coating as the source of the bullets’ supposedly increased penetration, rather than the hardness of the metals used. A common resulting misconception, often perpetuated in film and television, is that coating otherwise normal bullets with Teflon will give them armor-piercing capabilities. In reality, as noted above, Teflon and similar coatings were used primarily as a means to protect the gun barrel from the hardened brass bullet, and, secondarily, to reduce ricochet against hard, angled surfaces. The coating itself did not add any armor-piercing abilities to bullets under normal circumstances.
Several of the various calibers of KTW rounds produced could, in fact, penetrate police vests, under certain conditions. However, as Kopsch pointed out in a 1990 interview, “adding a Teflon coating to the round added 20% penetration power on metal and glass. Critics kept complaining about Teflon’s ability to penetrate body armor... In fact, Teflon cut down on the round’s ability to cut through the nylon or Kevlar of body armor.” [2]