Gun control laws are a controversial topic that generally focus on the possession and sale of the guns themselves. The bullet flies flatter than lead, offers less felt recoil, and creates absolutely devastating wound channels,” the NovX Ammo press release states. Apart from regulating bullets, states are taking aggressive measures to control things like magazine size. The polymer tips were easier to form than lead tips, and when combined with high ballistic efficient bullets with boat tails, flatter trajectories were obtained and more foot pounds (ft./lbs.) NovX says the +P Extreme Self-Defense cartridges register at 1,655 FPS. In reality, as noted above, Teflon and similar coatings were used primarily as a means to protect the gun barrel from the hardened brass bullet, and, secondarily, to reduce ricocheting off hard, angled surfaces. We offer the finest quality hard cast lead bullets for reloading. However, stopping power in terms of damage and harm is one of the reasons that is also viewed as a negative. Recently a company, Polycase, has come out with bullets that are a mixture of powdered copper and polymer and are produced by injection molding. Fire some Super Slick J-Ames BULLETS® through your barrels! Proponents for stricter gun control laws also support regulating the types of ammunition available to the public, as well as who can sell and purchase ammunition.

Woven ballistic vests, like Kevlar, rely on the dense weave of the textile and the tensile strength of the fiber to create resistance (or drag) on the exterior of the projectile slowing and eventually stopping the bullet before it penetrates all of the fabric layers of a vest. In the 1960s, Paul Kopsch (an Ohio coroner), Daniel Turcus (a police sergeant), and Donald Ward (Kopsch's special investigator), began experimenting with special purpose handgun ammunition. Velocities above 2,000 FPS create enough heat to warp the polymer coating, so it is recommended that polymer coated bullets not be used with ammunition that generates more than 2000 FPS muzzle velocities. The Polycase composite bullets are new enough that I haven’t seen them in stores yet. Additionally, local ordinances can also require vendors to keep records of all bullet sales. The main reason for this is to stop the bullet from penetrating too deeply. For example: Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Interview with an inventor of the KTW bullet", http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/codeofalabama/1975/13A-11-60.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teflon-coated_bullet&oldid=981225107, Articles needing additional references from March 2014, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from June 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 01:26. Our coating has been tested to the extreme. But what about the bullets the guns fire? Google Chrome, Polymer Performance Eggleston Polycoated Bullets are coated with the highest performing polymer on the market today. While an alarm system provides early warning of an intruder, you still need to... by Michael Janich / Because this type of ammunition is unpredictable in terms of its power and the plausible damage it might incur, many states in the country have made it illegal to possess or buy any kind of ammunition that is under this category. In 1980, continued production of the ammunition was turned over to the North American Ordnance Corporation.