Armor-piercing ammunition

Under federal law, silencers are treated in the same category as automatic weapons. Armor-piercing ammunition (popularly called cop-killer bullets) were banned in 1986, with an expanded definition of banned bullets in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that includes bullets made of tungsten, beryllium, depleted uranium, and other exotic materials. Other accessories can also cause a weapon to be banned (see Assault Weapons above). 

The Gun Control Act of 1968 requires that firearms and ammunition manufacturers obtain a federal license and pay a fee of 50 per year for firearms manufacturers and 10 per year for ammunition makers unless the manufacturer makes destructive devices or armor-piercing ammunition, in which case the fee is 1,000 per year. 

Charles Schumer, Democratic senator from New York, former representative from the Ninth District of New York and veteran on the House Judiciary Committee, where he chaired the subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. Schumer is a strong advocate for gun control who helped pass the Brady Bill he also advocates bans on armor-piercing ammunition and a limit on the number of guns a person may purchase or own without a special arsenal license. ... 

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. 

The primary use for uranium is in nuclear power reactors and in weapons. Low-enriched metal or ceramic UO2 fuel pellets (enriched in fissile U-235) are produced for commercial power reactors. Smaller quantities of high-enriched fuel are produced for shipboard power reactors and weapons manufacture. Depleted uranium, a by-product of the enrichment process, is used for armor-piercing ammunition for the military, for counter balances and weights, and for radiation shielding. A small amount of uranium is used in specialty chemicals and catalysts. 

Should some types of ammunition be banned, such as armor-piercing or cop-killer bullets ... 

APDS-T (Armor-Piercing Discarding Sabot) ProjectileAn outside view of the 105-mm APDS-T, M392A2 Projectile is shown here in Fig 41, together with a brief description of the complete round (Ref 52, pp 2-33, 2-69 2-70) (Compare with 76-mm HVAP-DS-T Fixed Ammunition M331, shown in Fig 37b with a brief description)... 

Abbreviations CRA — Complete Round of Ammunition AP, HE, LN — Armor-Piercing,... 

AP (armor-piercing), HEAT (hyper-velocity antitank), HEP (high explosive plastic), etc. Ammunition serving to defeat concrete is known as A/C (anticoncrete)... 

Other military applications continue to account for a large fraction of all types of advanced composites produced today. Such materials are used, for example, in the construction of missile systems, their ammunition components, and their launch systems. Missile-related components that use composites include launcher tubes, armor-piercing penetrators, and stanchion and torpedo tubes used in submarines. 

Armor-piercing (AP) ammunition has a projectile or projectile core constructed entirely from a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium. The most effective AP bullets are usually confined to rifle bullets, as velocity and range are important factors in AP requirements. Some revolver and pistol ammunition is described as metal piercing but, although it would be effective against vehicle bodywork and some body armor, it would be ineffective against heavy armor plate. AP bullets are, with very few exceptions, jacketed. 

Other incendiary compositions used in older ammunition were potassium chlorate based with a mixture of potassium chlorate and mercury sulfocyanide as the priming composition. Another older incendiary composition consisted of potassium nitrate, magnesium, aluminum, and lead oxide.72,73 Multipurpose filled bullets are also manufactured, for example, armor piercing/incendiary, armor piercing/tracer, and spotter tracer bullets, which leave a visible trace and produce a puff of smoke on impact. One such smoke charge is lead dioxide 85% and powdered aluminum 15%. There... 

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