Gun illiterate news media

[Sunray]

"...APTI..." The 'I' means incendiary. That's evil everywhere. Last time I looked on the ATF's Laws by Regulation site, it said 7.62NATO AP was evil because there are handguns chambered in .308 Win. .30 AP ammo is fine though.
Proper and correct mean the same thing.
The entire case sounds a lot like the Powers That Be are looking for somebody to blame and found one.
"...the media knows virtually nothing..." Yep. And they have no qualms about making stuff up either.

[JOHN COOK]

The entire case sounds a lot like the Powers That Be are looking for somebody to blame and found one.
"...the media knows virtually nothing..." Yep. And they have no qualms about making stuff up either.

I don't think the FEDS have to make up stuff in this case. It is known that Mr. Haig (sp) the manufacturer's name was found on the ammo box in the shooters hotel room and they have his prints on the ammo and the box they were in. Any law enforcement officer seeing the boxes not labeled Remington,Federal, or some other known brand would more than likely look up Mr. Haig and look into his activities. This information can be seen on NBC site and ABC, CBS and FOX. Get the facts as they are shown before posting.

john

[Griff Murphey]

A good friend police officer and very excellent 3 gun champ pointed out that .308 (7.62) ammo is considered by ATF to be PISTOL ammo due to the single shot handguns available, and therefore 7.62/.308 AP is prohibited as "armor piercing pistol ammunition." A likely scenario is that the seller made up some 7.62 /.308 AP using pulled .30'06 AP projectiles and that is the basis of the charge. Of course we do not have all the facts yet (if we ever will...) in the case.

The media has no technical knowledge of firearms and their articles concerning guns amount to childlike blather, at best.

[bostonbound]

My point was that the media does not know what an armor piercing bullet is. They described a tracer but stated that the rest of the bullets would follow the trail of fire as if they were automated to do so.

That's what it showed in Roger Rabbit!

[bostonbound]

"...APTI..." The 'I' means incendiary. That's evil everywhere.

API in 30-06 is not illegal by federal law - though it may be illegal in some states of smaller jurisdictions. The CMP sold 30-06 API a while back - as it also sold 30-06 tracer and AP. There was much discussion on the CMP Forum about NOT pulling the 30-06 bullets of those flavors and putting them on .308 Win cartridge cases.

Gunbroker has quite a bit of API for sale - mostly caliber .50.

[Former Cav]

all they have to do is ACCUSE you of something and you are so screwed.
ever heard the saying "you can't fight city hall" ?
you would need BILLIONS of bucks to defend yourself from the fed govt or state govt.
city and local will bankrupt you.