Plastic bullet can refer to: Plastic baton round: a large, blunt, low-velocity projectile fired from a specialized gun, intended as a less-lethal weapon...
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A plastic-tipped bullet is a type of hollow-point bullet tipped with a nose cone made of synthetic polymer to give it a pointed spitzer-like shape. The...
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bullet is a hollow-point rifle bullet that has a plastic tip on the end of the bullet. This improves external ballistics by streamlining the bullet,...
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disabilities. Like other similar projectiles made from plastic, wax, and wood, rubber bullets may be used for short range practice and animal control...
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bullets which, despite having a higher ballistic coefficient (BC), are more sensitive to bullet harmonic characteristics and wind deflection. Plastic-tipped...
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so suitable precautions should be taken when using them. Rubber bullet Plastic bullet Blank ammunition Nonte, Jr., George C. (1978). Basic Handloading...
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Emma Groves (section Campaign to ban plastic bullets)
campaigner for banning the use of plastic bullets, and a co-founder of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets in Northern Ireland. She began her...
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Sean Downes (redirect from Seán Downes (rubber bullet victim))
Republican Army youth member, who died after he was shot in the chest with a plastic bullet in August 1984 during an anti-internment rally in Belfast. Sean Edward...
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62×51mm NATO plastic training cartridge, plastic case cartridge colored light blue with a light 10-grain plastic bullet which is fired with a high initial velocity...
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shotgun Plastic baton round or plastic bullet, a less-lethal projectile fired from a specialised gun Rubber baton round, commonly called the rubber bullet, a...
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United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets is an organisation based in Belfast, Northern Ireland that opposes the use of plastic bullets by the British army...
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years later Nichols invented a plastic bullet that was snapped into a hollowed-out version of the regular 2-piece bullet with a compression spring inside...
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pine bullets propelled at 100 miles per hour (45 m/s) by an air cannon to test the resistance of tornado shelters made of wood. Bean bag round Plastic bullet...
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5.56×45mm NATO (redirect from SOST (bullet type))
56×45mm 0.5 g (7.70gr) plastic training cartridge, plastic case cartridge colored light blue with a light 7.7-grain plastic bullet designed for short ranges...
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control such as tear smoke shells, PAVA shells, rubber bullets fired from gas guns, plastic bullets, and pellet guns before finally resorting to opening...
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civilian, shot by plastic bullet. Keith White (14 April 1986 in Portadown, Northern Ireland) – Protestant civilian, shot by plastic bullet during a riot....
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"point/torpedo bullet") fired at a muzzle velocity of 800 m/s (2,625 ft/s). In the 21st century, plastic-tipped bullets are a type of rifle bullet meant to...
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June 2021). "Divis man to feature in new documentary 40 years after plastic bullet death". Belfast Media Group. Retrieved 7 January 2025. Melaugh, Martin;...
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members with automatic rifles and grenades. They fired more than 2,500 plastic bullets at rioters and exchanged gunfire with the IRA. More than 100 civilians...
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or a translucent plastic "bullet" that contains the shot and shatters upon firing. During World War II, a full metal jacket bullet version of the .22...
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cartridge with less-lethal rubber bullet "Strela-3" («Стрела-3», "Arrow"): cartridge with less-lethal plastic bullet "Cheremukha-7" («Черёмуха-7», "Bird...
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armour-piercing bullets. Plastic armour was effective because the very hard particles would deflect bullets, which would then lodge between the plastic armour...
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riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets. Tear gas, which was developed by the United States Army for riot...
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riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets. Tear gas, which was developed for riot control in 1919, is widely...
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Street. One of the loyalists, Keith White, was shot in the face by a plastic bullet and died in hospital on 14 April. Police again decided that the Drumcree...
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Riot gun (redirect from Rubber bullet gun)
impact. Baton rounds, often called rubber bullets or plastic bullets, are cylinders made of rubber, plastic, wood, or foam, and can be as large as the...
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down police barricades at the METU A1 Gate. Despite the police using plastic bullets, pepper spray, and tear gas, the march continued. A mass demonstration...
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protests in Ankara, Turkey, a protester was wounded in the face by a "plastic bullet", later attributed to police use of the FN 303. During Independence...
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Bulletproof glass (redirect from Bullet proof glass)
provides little in the way of bullet-resistance. The glass, which is much harder than plastic, flattens the bullet, and the plastic deforms, with the aim of...
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Security forces fired 29,695 plastic bullets in 1981, causing seven deaths, compared to a total of around 16,000 bullets and four deaths in the eight...
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