Rare Gun With Armor Piercing Rounds Seized From Drug Dealer

[Indyvet]

Kinda laughed at this story and shows how the media does not have a clue and overexagerates these things. I did not know an fn 5.7 was rare and the rounds are not armor piercing. Believe this is a myth. Like all rifles are ak 47's and every pistol is an automatic glock. Here is the link to the story:
Police: Rare Gun With Armor-Piercing Rounds Seized In Drug Arrest - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans

 

[armedindy]

I was under the impression that 5.7's were armor piercing. Although, the gun is not very rare

 

[HeadlessRoland]

5.7 has great external ballistics, but it's not innately AP. You could make it AP, though, just as you could produce an AP round for almost all calibers if you really tried hard enough. But again, mass media fail. It happens so often it's hard to believe that it's not intentional, and another mere propaganda outlet for the National Goverment.

 

[indykid]

The amazing 5.7x28 is capable of knocking satellites out of orbit, bringing down 747s from several miles away, and can pass through many feet of armor plating.

And like said above, all rifles are "AK-47s" and every firearm is an evil assault weapon with a mind of it's own capable of killing anyone without notice or help from any human hand.

Also according to that obviously unbiased article, the guy with the pistol was a felon, and we all know that felons are not allowed to have firearms, so I can't believe this is true..... (purple on purple on purple)

 

[UncleMike]

The SS190 round is an armor defeating round and as such is restricted to Law Enforcement, and Military use.
A history of the 5.7 round is found here.
FN 5.7×28mm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[1911Shooter]

Two things that this article proves. One- The media is a bunch of idiots that everyone listens too and Two- If they would have just taken this guy and locked him up for years he wouldnt have ever committed the crime.

 

[.452browning]

The SS190 duty and the L191 tracer are the standard AP rounds. You can make your own AP rounds also. Not rare. Rare is if they found a phaser set to kill with AP rounds....or a Brown Bess musket with a sharpened stick down the barrel claimed to be "AP". I could see the headline now "man found with revolution era musket loaded with AP rounds and set to half cock with primed pan"

 

[MinuteMan47]

According to CSI you can't even buy those in the US.

 

[IndySSD]

According to CSI you can't even buy those in the US.

You can buy the handgun, not the MG that was in the show..... at least not as a civillian brand new.... now, I'm curious about any LEA's that might consider doing a NFA transfer of one that they are "done with"

So technically they were right.... but they were way off acting like no gun in the US fires those rounds....

 

[Cerberus]

The SS190 round is an armor defeating round and as such is restricted to Law Enforcement, and Military use.
A history of the 5.7 round is found here.
FN 5.7×28mm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The SS109 is merely the M855 and legal for purchase by anyone.

 

[kevinj110]

Wait what?

 

[Ridgeway]

You can buy the handgun, not the MG that was in the show..... at least not as a civillian brand new.... now, I'm curious about any LEA's that might consider doing a NFA transfer of one that they are "done with"

So technically they were right.... but they were way off acting like no gun in the US fires those rounds....

I don't know what show you are talking about or specifically what gun. But I assume it's a P90.
There are no transferable P90's. The only thing you will find is a post-sample & only a SOT will be able to buy it and then will have to get rid of it if he drops the license.

On topic, I love my PS90. One of these days I'd like to pick up a Five-Seven...before they end up getting banned due to whatever new/recent hysteria re: alleged AP capability.

 

[mshogren]

The TV show was CSI, the original one. I just watched it on DVR last night and the whole time I am going WTF! I kinda expect anti-gun BS on many shows, but this was over the top in my opinion...

Mark

 

[garyindiane]

The TV show was CSI, the original one. I just watched it on DVR last night and the whole time I am going WTF! I kinda expect anti-gun BS on many shows, but this was over the top in my opinion...

Mark

Yeah that one had me yelling at the TV. Wife had to calm me down. Lol

-Gary

 

[ATM]

The SS109 is merely the M855 and legal for purchase by anyone.

True, but that's a different caliber and not SS190.

 

[Cerberus]

True, but that's a different caliber and not SS190.

Misread. Thanks for the correction.

 

[88E30M50]

Maybe my tinfoil hat is getting a bit worn, but I'm a believer that crap reporting like this is intentional. It's written in a way that causes your average sheep to automatically think that weapons like that should not be allowed to exist in public.

 

[coltaceguy]

Let us hope he really had the SS190 AP or more media bias BS