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What is a 9mm ball bullet?


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Was reading an article about how much ammo the feds are buying and ran across this:

The document also lists a requirement for 1.6 million pistol cartridge 9mm ball bullets (40 quantities of 40,000 rounds).

What the heck is a "ball bullet"?

http://www.infowars.com/dhs-purchases-21-6-million-more-rounds-of-ammunition/

Anybody have a guess on what they need all that ammo for?

To put that in perspective, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month. Extrapolating the figures, the DHS has purchased enough bullets over the last 10 months to wage a full scale war for almost 30 years.
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So it's just a regular ordinary bullet. Who knew?

I was reading about the 10 million pistol cartridge .40 caliber 165 Grain, jacketed Hollow point bullets. I know what they are but I don't think I've ever heard regular bullets called ball unless it was for black powder.

Must be hanging out in the wrong circles. :)

Still can't figure out what they need 1.6 billion bullets for?!?

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