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Posted on 02/07/2014 10:47:24 AM PST by null and void
If Robocop were real, he would probably use this ammo.
Multiple impact bullet, or MIB for short, is not your standard pellet-type round, such as the buckshot, and scattershot used in shotguns, but rather a .45mm handgun-type ammunition. MIB holds three projectile fragments that spread themselves in a specific pattern every time they're fired, thereby increasing hit probability and decreasing collateral damage. In essence, they're a law enforcement officer's dream.
The 3-in-1 round was invented by entrepreneur and game hunter, Todd Kuchman from Colorado, with the goal of increasing gun accuracy of nervous shooters. By employing a ballistic-strength fiber in the center of each bullet, Kuchman was able to contain the three shrapnel fragments within a finite distance of 14 inches across a Y-shaped pattern. This controlled distance makes the bullet ideal for hostage rescue squads aiming to take down a perpetrator holding a hostage close, as seen in most cliche'd cop movies.
A question of legality inevitably arises when dealing with the sale and manufacturing of a new kind of deadly weapon, especially one that advertises itself as being. Technically speaking, any type of ammunition is legal in the United States so long as it's not armor piercing, according to Earl Griffith, firearms technology expert for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Costing five dollars a bullet.
The wide shot range increases hit probability
The bullets can only be purchased from Kuchman's company, Advanced Ballistics Concepts, for five to six dollars a pop depending on whether customers opt for the .45mm handgun or 12-guage shotgun shells. The company has made a total of $100,000 in profits with the first two weeks, but gun analyst speculate that it'll be difficult for a new comer to succeed in a market traditionally dominated by the historic firms Winchester and Remington. Chiseling a segment of the market will involve many more years of extensive testing as well the adopt by law enforcement agencies, and frankly, I think this type deadly technology needs a bit more regulation.
“.45mm handgun ????”
Talk about flying ashtrays!
Yeah, but just think how many could could have stacked in a standard magazine!
"My handgun holds 5412 rounds!"
How the heck could you get it to cycle though? Maybe a tiny dollop of antimatter instead of powder?
I see the barrel is threaded. is that for a silencer?
Seriously, I have been downrange for highpower and have also heard rounds go by with IDPA and IPSC, there are all sorts of sounds, from KRAK to BOOM to whistles and even the classic movie ricochet sound.
I’ve had people shooting at me, and that mostly was flight crack.
So three odd shaped slugs tied with cable and spinning through the air might sound pretty cool.
The important thing in any hostage situation is accurate shot placement.
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There is so much fail in this bastardized faux journalism
comment becomes almost pointless.
And the round itself is another solution looking for a problem. I see this company getting sued out of existence
the first time some SWAT monkey uses it and takes out a
hostage with the same trigger pull as the suspect.
What lefty wouldn't be happy about that?
I’d try it out for fun, though I already know the performance of Hornady and Winchester SPX 1.
Pretty sure it’s uh gonna hurt and real bad I hope....
If you make a .410 gun yourself (like printing it from a 3D printer) is it still illegal? The PDX Round ammunition itself isn’t illegal...
I prefer the 155mm version:
Nahhh. Too much felt recoil.
Put a recoil pad on it and you should be fine.
When I was with the 101st, we were doing an exercise in the back 40.
Being part of a DF team we were wandering trying to find the grid coordinates we were supposed to be at around midnight one night.
Finally I pulled in just beyond some trees into a clearing and proclaimed we were at our site.
Dragged out our sleeping bags to sleep under the stars.... about 20 minutes after we settled in, all hell broke loose. Turned out we situated ourselves about 50 meters infront of a 105mm bty.
Scared the shit out of me, but once we realized what was going on we just lay there and listened to the shells go down range over our heads :)
Only in the mind of a movie director with no experience of firearms.
At the time, cannon were relatively new and were the subject of investigation by the most advanced scientists and mathematicians alive at the time. The synchronization required would easily be shown to be pushing the limits of any technology. Even if the first shot went well, disaster would soon occur.
Dogs of America, make sure your insurance is paid up!
Only some are incompetent; some are whores. I assume the reason is that anyone who was competent and had a moral compass avoided urinalism in college in favor of some real profession where you get judged by measurable results, rather than slavish fealty to promoting the idea of more power for tyrants.
If they did, could you find it?
Oh, the liberal emotion-bots aren't going to be happy! They have a hair trigger when it comes to hi-cap mags!
Well, at least he's fluent in incoherent statist drivel....
The Judge itself is illegal, not the ammo. It is classified as a “short barrel shotgun” in California, so even if it is loaded with .45 rounds (which it also shoots), it would still be illegal as I understand it, although I doubt many LEO’s even know this distinction.
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