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Default ping Oren: bullets that won't penetrate sheetrock

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:28:33 -0700
Oren wrote:

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:51:20 -0700, T wrote:

On 03/17/2017 05:48 PM, T wrote:
Hi Oren,

A customer told me yesterday that he uses a bullet in his 45
ACP that won't penetrate sheetrock. He could not remember
what they were called. You know what they are called?

-T


He said they looked like a large opening hollow point
covered with an aluminum jacket


Maybe something like what Air Marshals use on planes. They won't go
through the skin on the plane. Not sure.


The United States Federal Air Marshal Service tested and used the
Glaser Safety Slug extensively in the 1970s and 80s on board commercial
passenger aircraft to defend against hijackers. Air Marshals are now
issued SIG Sauer P229 pistols with a 12-round capacity firing
conventional-jacketed hollow point ammunition in .357 SIG