[92674] in Cypherpunks
Re: .50 ammo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Mon Jan 5 00:07:59 1998
To: cypherpunks@www.video-collage.com
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:36:40 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <v03102805b0d606fbe3ca@[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at Jan 4, 98 07:50:49 pm
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Tim May wrote:
> Armor-piercing ammo, the common kind, is just steel-core ammo. This is
> readily available in most calibers, esp. military calibers. (A less common
> kind is "KTW" handgun ammo, which is under some recent restrictions. And
> even less common, and almost certainly unavailable to the proles, are
> "sabot" rounds, some with tungsten cores.)
By the way, I keep hearing about these sabot rounds but do not know
what they actually are. Could someone please explain. Thank you.
> (There is little need for this, for even folks like us. We are not likely
> to want to disable fleeing vehicles, etc. And even conventional lead-core
> rifle rounds will cut through body armor easily, which is all I care about.)
Many people underestimate the power of most rifles.
- Igor.
