[talk.politics.guns] Silicon bullets

joel@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) (03/26/91)

From: joel@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch)
	
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Speaking of armor piercing small arms ammo, I have something
I've been wondering about. I know that some anti-tank rounds
use a depleted uranium shell to pentrate the armor on tanks.
I was wondering if you used something like that in small arms
would it be effective against light armor? Have a nice pointy
depleted uranium bullet with a copper jacket. Would you end
up with a pistol round that could penetrate body armor or a rifle
round that could penetrate through the armor on a APC?

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