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US 5,852,255 AGranted
Non-toxic frangible bullet core
AssigneeFederal-Hoffman, Inc.
InventorsJohn M. Hallis, Richard W. Proulx
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AssigneeFederal-Hoffman, Inc.
InventorsJohn M. Hallis, Richard W. Proulx
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A non-toxic, highly frangible elongated soft-point training round bullet core which will disintegrate upon striking its target, for use in a training round in training exercises for law enforcement personnel and having a central heart of non-toxic metal selected from a group consisting of zinc, iron, steel, and copper with a plurality of wires of non-toxic metal selected from that group twisted around said heart throughout its length prior to being swaged into deforming and inter-engaging relation with the heart, and the core having been subsequently swaged into the shape of a soft-point nose of a bullet, with pressures sufficient to cause the strands of wire and the heart to inter-engage and deform while retaining their individuality at least to a limited extent, whereupon substantially all of the strands of the core, upon the core being fired and striking a target, will fragment along at least some of their original physical boundaries into discrete fragments smaller than the original size of the bullet.
In. a non-toxic, highly frangible, soft-point training round bullet core which will disintegrate upon striking its target, for use in a training round in training exercises for law enforcement personnel, comprising:
In a non-toxic, highly frangible, soft-point training round bullet core which will disintegrate upon striking the target, for use in a training round in training exercises for law enforcement personnel, comprising:
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