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Originally Posted by john70t
(not a lawyer or gunsmith here)
I re-read and may have made a mistake with the crappy language.
def of AP:
"a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and is constructed entirely, excluding the presence of traces of other substances, from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium"
-If bigger than .22, then the outer copper/steel jacket can't weight more than 25% of total.
-But the core may be composed of the other metals including denatured uranium as long as it's not 100%.
Dip it in copper chrome and it's ok i think.
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As a lay person, I agree with this interpretation^^.
It's the "entirely" and "traces" terms that are still a bit open. Just how much is "traces?" Conceivably, a bullet constructed of all or some of the mentioned metals and
some portion of lead would not be "entirely" constructed of those forbidden metals. Don't even know if it's practical to make an AP projectile with lead in the core, but, IMO, it would not qualify as AP from the definition as the presence of
lead in more than a trace amount, removes it from being entirely made from the hardened metals.