But we are not playing a game, we are being subjected to one. On December 27th, the news media carried the story of a supposedly new and deadly handgun ammunition. It was claimed to have the properties necessary to penetrate bullet- resistant vests typically used by police. That's salesman-speak for plastic.
Current law bans such bullets by metal content.
This all sounds pretty scary. But anyone who knows anything about ballastics was scratching his head from the beginning. The properties that cause a bullet to be able to penetrate armor and those that cause a bullet to fragment, are virtually opposite. Ammo seemed beyond the physical limits possible from a handgun load. They pointed out that commercial ammunition manufacture requires a federal license, which Signature Products did not have.