Chalk up another loss for public safety at the hands of the gun lobby. Nearly 30 years ago, the federal Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act banned the manufacture and sale of armor-piercing ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) --The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is floating the idea of prohibiting public sale of a certain type of ammunition capable of penetrating the bulletproof ...

Modern Tanks Are Among The Most Heavily Protected Vehicles Ever Built, But Every Tank Crew Knows That Armor Has Limits. From Penetrating Hits And Internal Fires To Ammunition Explosions And Emergency ...

The T-90's reactive armor explodes. When a pair of Ukrainian M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles recently tag-teamed a Russian T-90 tank in Stepove, outside Avdiivka in northeastern ...

A composite metal foam (CMF) material developed by researchers at North Carolina State University can stop ball and armor-piercing .50 caliber rounds as well as conventional steel armor, even though ...

While Kevlar is often used to protect law enforcement and soldiers from projectiles, it struggles to stop armor-piercing bullets. But now a type of composite metal foam (CMF) has been developed that ...

Two House Democrats have proposed a ban on armor-piercing bullets, just days after the ATF backed away. The legislation would require the attorney general to modify the definition of armor-piercing ...

UPDATE: Felix's arraignment has been delayed until at least 3 p.m. on Thursday. A gang member used armor piercing-bullets and an AR-15 to kill two Palm Springs police officers in a planned "ambush" on ...

Is there a China connection with Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes, according to a departing senior Pentagon official, who says that the Chinese-origin armor-piercing bullets -- of particular concern to U.S.