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What bullets will be legal to shoot out of handguns in California in 2019 once the lead ban kicks in? Anything non-lead is armor piercing.?

Update:

To clarify. According to the Law Enforcement Officer Protection Act of 1986 any bullet which can be fired from a handgun that chambers more than one round AND where the 25% of the bullet weight or more is from non-lead material (copper, steel, etc)... is considered armor piercing and illegal. It has nothing to do with whether or not the round will actually pierce body armor.

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  • BBean
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    So, did the absence of lead stop all soldering, stop gasoline from burning, and body work on cars? There will be a replacement metal. Not all steel will pierce armor, but everything in law making will depend on whose toes are stepped on.

  • 6 years ago

    People in California should be more worried about water and not bullets. Whole place is drying up - ready to blow away...... and your legislature's are doing nothing but spinning their wheels on gun control, gay marriage, and relaxing immigration. If this were my state - they would have recalled half of them and lynched the other half for that kind of behavior,

    I would not worry about it. Come 2019 - California will have successfully merged with Death Valley and become a new national park.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Pretty sure any lead ban will be overturned in court long before it can take effect.

  • 6 years ago

    No worries about that.....they'll lose their guns first....then lead will not matter.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You people in Kalifornia need to have a revolution and throw out all the liberals.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    There are plenty of alternatives.

    http://www.huntingwithnonlead.org/

    https://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/lead-free/...

    I see that some people are arguing, though not very clearly, that non-lead ammunition that can be used in a rifle cannot be used in a handgun. Even if true, I don't think there are very many hunters who go after game with a pistol. The lead ammo ban applies ONLY to hunting.

    http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavCli...

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    None for you f*&&^^* Creep.

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