Tubular handgun bullets

[Crankgrinder]

are we looking for a better way to let the air out of somebody?

 

[481]

Hit the link on the first page. Cruelly expensive ammo- even if it is collectible.

Neat idea though.

 

[SDC]

The original versions of these were machined bronze, but the "cop-killer bullet ban" outlawed those, so the next version was machined copper, as seen in the above photos.

 

[5thShock]

Cut rather than crush and push aside. Was said by some to be as good a bleeder as a sharp broadhead.

 

[Superhouse 15]

SDC nailed it. I remember reading an ATF bulliten about it back in the day.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I recall that the tube bullet left a particular difficult wound to treat and heal. It cut a sausage like entry, leaving a tube of cut flesh in you and lots of blood loss. Hard to clean and close. Also, the solid copper of some versions were vest penetrators.

 

[moxie]

I had a box of the PMC .44Spl. version around 1988. As I recall the bullets were ~140 gr. Shot about 2' low at 15'. Very inaccurate. They were called "tubular bullets."

 

[Mike Irwin]

Supposedly some years ago (late 1980s?) there was murder committed with one of these rounds on the Mall in Washington, DC.

 

[Yung.gunr]

Wow... All I have to say is wow.
Never heard of this before. Sounds like it would be very destructive.

 

[Burner]

Used by the Gov't in the shamefull Waco incident.

FBI HRT thought because they had trained with Delta that they were Delta.

Turns out they weren't Delta.