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Rap entrepreneur Master P has been busted at Newark Airport with six hollow-point bullets, the deadly and illegal ammo known on the streets as “cop-killers.”

Now the bullets are probably illegal at the airport and maybe even in ~~Hell~~ err New Jersey, but hollow points are not cop killers. Cop killers refer to rounds that have a steel core and are capable of penetrating body armor. To my knowledge, such bullets aren’t illegal under federal law but may be under NJ laws.

Contact JAMIE SCHRAM and inform her of her ignorance. In typical cowardly fashion, the Post doesn’t publish her email address. However, here is the general contact page. But if I had to guess here email address it would be jschram@nypost.com.

Update: That’s not her address. So try Chris Shaw instead, the assistant managing editor at cshaw@nypost.com.

Posted in uncategorized on June 12th, 2003 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

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AlphaPatriot Says:
June 19th, 2003 at 2:08 pm

I thought cop killer bullets were coated with Teflon, so I went looking and found this at GunCite:

In the 1970’s, Kopsch, Turcos and Ward produced their “KTW” handgun ammunition using steel cored bullets capable of great penetration. Following further experimentation, in 1981 they began producing bullets constructed primarily of brass. The hard brass bullets caused exceptional wear on handgun barrels, a problem combated by coating the bullets with Teflon. The Teflon coating did nothing to improve penetration, it simply reduced damage to the gun barrel.

Despite the facts that “KTW” ammunition had never been available to the general public and that no police officer has ever been killed by a handgun bullet penetrating their body armor, the media incorrectly reported that the Teflon coated bullets were designed to defeat the body armor that law enforcement officers were beginning to use. The myth of “Cop-killer” bullets was born.

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