Cop Killer Ammo

[professorx]

Split from: 5%2B+Shootings+in+Chattanooga+Overnight%3F

Mar 19, 2013 15:58:54 GMT -5 Police Moderator said:

Ok well thanks, everything else were trying doesn't seem to work.

Seems to be working Thanks Mr. NRA...

I dropped my membership decades ago over the NRA's support of 'cop-killer' ammo.

What exactly is "cop killer" ammo? I've always thought it was something vague, like "assault weapon". One minute it was hollow point ammo, then "Teflon" () coated bullets. Eventually the dreaded black talons were banned... or re-named Ranger a more politically correct name.

If it is hollow point bullets, why should non-police be barred from using them? Them seem less likely to pass though a ballistic vest than a full metal jacket.... But I am not a ballistics expert.

Why should civilians use full metal jacket (military style shudder) ammunition?

[JC]

I wondered what PM meant after reading that, too.

There is no such thing as "cop killer" ammo. Doesn't matter if the bullets are coated in brass or tefflon.... they all work just the same.

[Police Moderator]

There is no such thing as "cop killer" ammo. Doesn't matter if the bullets are coated in brass or tefflon.... they all work just the same.

At the time of the controversy, it was thought, by many, that teflon bullets would easily pass through body armor. That has since been proven as not true.

I dropped my NRA membership when it's leadership fought the ban considering what was thought to be true at the time. Many LE groups were aghast that the NRA would contemplate supporting the sale of something that was thought, at the time, to defeat body armor.

I never saw a reason to re-join.