Proof ammunition

Ammunition, Proof Ammunition containing pyrotechnic substances, used to test the performance or strength of new ammunition, weapon component or assemblies. UN App. B, ICAO A2, US 173.59... 

As to the dollar-value of the Arsenal, its facilities are valued at over 500,000,000. The nature of these facilities varies, from the conventional to the nuclear. Conventional ammunition production lines, control laboratories and inspection systems are maintained in stand-by and are occasionally used in experimental or pilot-lot production. Nuclear weapons ammunition, components and devices are developed and produced in the. necessarily special research laboratories, proof-testing facilities and production and pilot assembly lines... 

Their policies range from the permissive (all law-abiding adults) to the highly restrictive (must show a definite need), cop-killer bullet Term for armor-piercing ammunition popularized by gun control advocates. The term gets its name on the basis that it especially endangers police wearing bullet-proof vests, curios and relics Firearms that are at least 50 years old or that are considered (because of their scarcity, historical value, or unusual nature) to be collector s items. A federal firearms license (FFL) is required for interstate purchase of such firearms. 

Refs 1) Anon, "Ordnance Proof Manual 7—15 1945) 2) Anon, "Small Arms Ammunition ,... 

Anon, "Test Methods for Small Arms Ammunition , Ordnance Proof Manual ORD-M608-PM, Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia,... 

Anon, US Army Test and Evaluation Command Materiel Test Procedure, TECP 700-700, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md (Jan 1967) Ordnance Proof Manual Vol 1, "Arms and Ammunition Testing (Oct 195 ) and Interim Pamphlet Nos ... 

Gun Design, Chapt 2—Gun Construction, Chapt 3—Recoil, Chapt 4-Carriages and Mounts and Chapt 5—Breech Mechanisms) 56)Anon, "Artillery Ammunition, Dept of the Army Tech Manual, TM 9—1901, Washington,DC(1950) 57)ORDIM,Office of Chief of Ordnance Washington 25,DC,"Com-plete Round Charts, No 5981(1950-1) 58)Anon, "Ordnance Proof Manual, Nos 1—1 to 70-10, years of issue 1937-1951, Office of Chief of Ordnance, Washing ton,DC 59) R.Held, "The Age of Firearms, A Pictorial History, Harper Bros, NY(1951) 60)C.R. Jacobs, "Official Gun Book,1 CrownPublg Co,NY(1951) 6l)Anon, "Ordnance Inspection Handbook on Ammunition Material, ... 

Refs Anon, "Test Methods for Small-Arms Ammunition , Ordnance Proof Manual ORD M608-PM, Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa (1945) 2)Anon, "Small-Arms Ammunition , TM 9-1990(1947), 40-50 3)Anon, "Artillery Ammunition , TM 9-1901(1950) 4)Anon, "Arms and Ammunition Testing , Ordnance Proof Manual, OPM 10-50, Vol 1(1957)... 

Methods of testing of artillery ammunition components are described in the No 8 series of the Ordnance Proof Manual (Refs 1 to 7) and in military specifications listed in Ref 8... 

Refs l)Anon, "Complete Rounds , Ordnance Proof Manual OPM 6-10 (1943) 2)USMilitary Specification MIL-R-20375 (1951) (Round, Complete, Shell, HE, M58 for Gun 90mm, Ml) 3)Ditto, MIL-R-20520(1951) (Rounds, Complete, APC Projectile Ammunition, Base Fuzed, for Guns) 4)Ditto, MIL-R-20506 (1951) (Rounds, Complete, for Gun, 105mm, M3 5)OrdTech Term (19(2), 79... 

Accuracy Tests of Small Arms Ammunition are described in Ordnance Proof Manual... 

By the early autumn of 1940 the nation s ammunition reserves were already buried in huge bomb-proof arsenals below the hills of Wiltshire, Staffordshire and Caernarvonshire, deep concrete citadels were burrowed under London for the War Cabinet and Chiefs of Staff, and belated plans were laid to transfer much of the aircraft industry (upon which survival was to depend) into a series of great underground factories beyond the reach of the heaviest German bomb. 

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