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- From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Law Enforcement Only
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.212422.13007@chpc.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:10:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: chpc.1992Nov16.212422.13007
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
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- In article <Yf1nfqS00WB70X2F5g@andrew.cmu.edu> sr2s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Malcolm Redmore) writes:
- #Hello folks!
- #
- #I have heard several different rumors about (well, only two, actually
- #:) ) "law enforcement only" ammunition.
- #
- #Here they are:
- #
- #1) that the companies _do_ mean it, and dealers aren't supposed to
- #sell to anyone but legit. "law enforcement"
-
- Some of each. Federal appears to mean it with the LE only 9mm
- ammo - ever try to find a store which has 9BE-LE +P+ 9mm in stock?
- I believe the reason is that the +P+ ammo is beyond SAAMI specs,
- and Federal is concerned with liability if it is used in inappropriate
- guns.
-
- Some other ammo (Thunderzap gimic hyper veliocity plastic ammo) had
- a law enforcement only deisgnation but was readily sold to the public.
-
- Also - remember the Cap Stun "5% to police / 1% to civilian" policy for
- their pepper defense sprays? This most certainly appeared to be merketing
- hype to convince the police that the stuff being sold to them was so
- good that "mere civilians" can't get it.
-