Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are measuring precisely the disintegration of "frangible" bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ...

The Radically Invasive Projectile, or RIP bullet, uses machined copper-tipped bullets to make multiple penetrations into a target, including the main body of the bullet, creating up to nine different ...

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Twenty years ago, Joe Benini went after a problem that he, as a shooter, had experienced: bullet fragments at shooting ranges flying back and biting him. The frangible bullets he developed, which ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — If you live in the Valley Hi, Park Hill, and Pikes Peak Park neighborhoods, you may very well some gunshots tonight between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.. The Colorado Springs police are ...

Strain waves traveling at 5,000 meters per second in the NIST Kolsky bar apparatus compress a test slice from a frangible bullet to measure the precise amount of stress needed to break it apart.