Nice. Although I'd rather get one of these 105mm handguns. Though ammo cost is a bitch.
.45mm handgun ????
More silly ammo that doesn’t work very well but is sure to be used by the anti-gun crowd.
“thereby increasing hit probability”
They should probably reword that to “increasing hit probability to a vital organ”, or something along those lines.
Neat, and scary.
great now they can kill your dog and the neighbors dogs on both sides with on one shot
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.
“This controlled distance makes the bullet ideal for hostage rescue squads aiming to take down a perpetrator holding a hostage close, as seen in most cliche’d cop movies.”
If the frags spread 14” in 3 directions, isn’t that going to hit the hostage and the perp? Okay, I didn’t read the article, yet...
I can recall someone (not me of course) purchasing 12 Ga “bolo rounds” at the Pomona, CA show. Lead balls connected with some sort of cable.
Also, .45 ammo with three stacked slugs in each, two discs and one 155 gr semiwad, for a total of 225 gr. It made 3 holes in the paper.
This round looks similar but the overall concept is much slicker. Wonder what it sounds like.
Maximum no. of persons shot....1....based on probability
Multiple projectile loads have been around for a long time and have never been very successful. Usually accuracy suffers greatly and the smaller projectiles have limited penetration ability especially through clothes, or windshields. Stick with modern single projectile expanding loads. They are more effective and cheaper as well.
What???? Wait... 0.45mm... Bull#$%#!
I believe the author meant a segmented 45 caliber... but I could be wrong.
And this has been tried before.
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.
Nice. Although I'd rather get one of these 105mm handguns. Though ammo cost is a bitch.
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.
“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?
http://g2rip.com/
And you gotta love a self-defense cartridge named RIP.
This is utter crap BS. What shooter in their right mind would trust a bullet with a 14" spread to hit a perp and not a closely held hostage. BS and more BS.
The writer knows nothing of which he writes.
That's some seriously small ammo.
I'm guessing English is not the writer's first language.