Newsgroups: ca.politics,talk.politics.guns
From: [p n gai] at [mv.us.adobe.com] (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: Cop killer bullets
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 07:30:01 GMT

[j--r--y] at [teetot.acusd.edu] (Jerry Stratton) writes:
>Eric, are you saying there *was* a problem with 'Cop-Killer' bullets? Could
>you elaborate for a poor fool like me who thinks that the whole thing
>was concocted by some idiot who saw ktw as a way to ban bullets in
>general?

According to the book "Under Fire", (which has been praised by Sarah
Brady of Handgun Control):

"As far as anyone knew (at the time a bill banning bullets capable of
penetrating Kevlar vests was introduced), no law enforcement officers
had been killed by these bullets (the KTW type) penetrating soft body
armor. Furthermore, since they had been deemed too dangerous for police
work, and since they were originally marketed primarily to the police,
few of the bullets were still around."

"While it was true that armor-piercing bullets had killed police
officers, the deaths had not occurred in the manner (Congressman)
Biaggi (sponsor of the original ban bill) implied. The victims had not
been wearing body armor when they had been shot, and one of them had
been shot in the head."

"But there was an even more serious flaw to Biaggi's argument. Biaggi
and others supporting the bill cried that the NRA was being
unreasonable for not backing a measure that would  outlaw only
armor-piercing rounds.  When the NRA responded that the bill would also
outlaw other far more common types of ammunition, backers of the
legislation merely snickered..."

"But in fact, the bill *would* have banned a lot of hunting and
sporting ammunition..."

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