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Ralph,

called Berry and ask them. They have tested a couple of hundred rounds so far nada. No harm of any kind comes to the gun in any way. The plastic that is forced against the wall of the firing chamber is delron and that is a lot softer than the steel in the gun.

Ya, I thought of that to. I tried to design something I would want to use.

Mike Worley Inventor of the safety bullet

call Berry's at 1-800-269-7373 ask Gilbert he owns the place and is building the SB for me.

Mike, have you submitted a sample of this thing to BATF for evaluation?

I only ask because of an e-mail response I received from someone. He wrote as follows:

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It sounds like the pin that it projects into the barrel is retained by the cartridge case. That sounds a lot like the captive piston rounds that contain their own propellent gases. Such rounds are deemed to be suppressors by BATF (Small Arms Review, Vol. 5, No. 9, p. 48). Wouldn't that be a surprise if each purchaser were required to pay a $200 tax, get fingerprinted, get CLEO signoff, and wait several months to take delivery?

If the "safety bullets" are not found to be subject to NFA, what do you want to bet someone will glue a relatively light bullet to the front of the case, setting it up for the pin to strike when fired? Sounds like a field-expedient self-suppressing captive piston round, no?

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I've seen a picture of the captive-piston pistol rounds that he refers to. Very rarely seen, because the things are mainly used in covert military operations. Highly specialized stuff. H&K's underwater pistol (P11) might use a similar cartridge design, I'm not sure.

I found the second part of the above e-mail very interesting. If someone could modify your safety-bullet to prevent the case from expanding, they could make a dandy pistol round that's quieter than a .22 CB Cap. Hmmm...