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-> RG> -> There was several articles some time ago about handgun
-> RG> -> rounds that were designed to penetrate soft body armor,
-> RG> -> provide fairly good tissue damage and did not over
-> RG> -> penetrate hard targets.  From what I remember they
-> RG> -> worked well but the manufacturing process was so
-> RG> -> expensive that police departments couldn't afford them.
-> RG> -> (I don't want to get into the actual design here in an
-> RG> -> open echo but it was simple once you thought about it.)
-> RG> Actually, most body armor won't stop a 22LR...
-> Okay, I know that and you know that.  However, manyof my friends on 
-> line and some in the concrete world don't want that known for obvious 
-> reasons. Understood?
Are you commissioned law enforcement?  I am, and obviously you don't
know much about this subject.
-> Sorry, don't mean to gripe at you, but many can get this echo...  
-> Even the criminals.
All one has to do is go to the local Police uniform and supply shop,
look in the publicly available Galls Police/Fire/EMT catalog, call PACA
who makes the vest supplied to me by my department, or Second Chance,
and they will tell you this information. 
None of this is any great secret, even to the criminal element.  
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