New and deadly handgun ammo combines 3 bullets in 1 shell

Electronic Products ^ | 01/31/2014 | Max Teodorescu

[Myrddin]

If you're going for a hostage taker with the victim held close, you want pin point accuracy with the round on the hostage taker, not the hostage. Something that spreads uncontrollably is the last damn thing you want your sniper using. The round probably isn't bad in a .45Auto in a close quarters confrontation. You don't usually get that luxury with a hostage taker.

[DBrow]

“Yea, I don’t see any point to this ammo at all,”

Exotic ammo collectors might like this, to put in the case next to Gyrojet and DU .410 slugs.

[andyk]

frankly, I think this type deadly technology needs a bit more regulation.

Right. I think users of the 1st amendment need a bit more regulation, frankly.

[VeniVidiVici]

45mm handgun

Nice. Although I'd rather get one of these 105mm handguns. Though ammo cost is a bitch.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

That’s .018” diameter - about the same size as a sewing needle. Accelerate it to mach 5 and maybe you would get some recoil.

[rey]

They have had soemthing similar for a long time. many law enforcement agencies have a 12 ga. round that fires two large ball bearings connected by a short cable. The reasoning for that round was yu could open a hole through a door and then fire a regular round through, assuming your target was foolish enough to stand by the hole. Obviously, its intended use is quite different than that suggested.

I suspect, without knowing the ballistic info behind this new round, it would lose too much of its stopping power, the range of the round would certainly be lessened. No doubt it would hurt like heck, possibly maim, but I don’t think it would be all that effective at flat out stopping. I think it would be useless in the hostage scenario they suggest.

Now a 12 ga. or even a 40mm grenade launcher with a device that expanded even further that could wrap around a perp might be something. I know one of the villians on the Tick had one and assuming television hasn’t lied to me, it could work.

[Seaplaner]

.45mm handgun ????

Of course. Have you not heard of the new 0.018 caliber?

[Carriage Hill]

Kind of looks like a bolo, doesn’t it? No fps numbers, but I’d imagine that *hurts* pretty darned good. Tore-up the cardboard silhouette pretty good; I can imagine what it’d do to skin.

[moovova]

“A question of legality inevitably arises when dealing with the sale and manufacturing of a new kind of deadly weapon, especially one that advertises itself as being.”

Ammo with beingness?

[Pecos]

As taught in the NRA concealed carry course I took, every fragment, like every solid round, has a lawyer attached. I’d rather deal with controlled hits than worry about that silly string trying to hold things together.

[andyk]

Lulz

[Carriage Hill]

Trade ya my both Kimber 1911 .45cal ACPs for one of those!

[Tenacious 1]

.45mm handgun ????

I caught that too and immediately thought... "Another media mental midget writing about something totally foreign to them."

[dartuser]

I think this is better ...

http://g2rip.com/

And you gotta love a self-defense cartridge named RIP.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

he separation physics is very sensitive to things like minute differences in mass of the facets, wind, perturbations from the sabot separation process and for various other reasons doesn’t work well in live fire.”

Can you imagine how much those quarter moon shaped projectiles will tumble and fly off at random angles? There is a reason bullets are shaped the way they are.

[OneWingedShark]

> .45mm handgun ????
>
> LOL! That’s 1.771 inches in diameter. I bet it kicks!

Nope, you’re off by a couple orders of magnitude:
0.45 mm = 0.01771654 in

So no kick at all; and you need tweezers and some REALLY steady hands to load it...

[null and void]

And it’s lead free!

[USNBandit]

I think they are talking about not the ability to punch through armor, but rounds made specifically to go through armor. A rifle round will definitely punch through a soft vest, legal. Armor piercing FN 5.7 rounds made for punching through armor, illegal.

[Carriage Hill]

Exactly my point; thanks.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have some custom ammunition that has no fewer than NINE projectiles per shell. I can’t tell any more about it due to security considerations, but the box has “00” written on it.

Wow. We must shop at the very same Advanced Weapons Technology lab.