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Originally Posted by DWalt
I don't remember exactly when, but I think sometime in the early 1990s there was a mass shooting at a law office in, I think, San Francisco where the shooter used Winchester Black Talon ammunition in a TEC-9. Some news stories were referring to it as armor piercing. The name also had racial connotations. Winchester changed the name to "Ranger Law Enforcement" thereafter.
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Anytime a reporter that knows absolutely nothing about guns hears the words, armor piercing, cop killer bullet, exploding bullet,
fragmenting bullet and the list goes on and on they take those words and runs with them. The rest of the media picks up on them and does the same thing. Pretty soon a .22 long rifle bullet is perceived as an armor piercing, cop killing exploding bullet.