Question about plastic 9mm bullets?

Question

Some guy my father works with gave him a few blue tipped 9mm plastic bullets,He said they are made in France and it is the fastest 9mm bullet there is.What are they used for?We shot some at phone books and it went through,I think this bullet would kill someone if you hit them rite.

Answer 1

Hmm.  Blue tip was the old color-code for incendiary ammo. Also, Glaser ammo loads blue tips in their safety slug (a pre-fragmented, thin-walled slug filled with compressed #12 shot).  This is a low-penetration round so if it went through a phone book then I seriously doubt it was a Glaser.  My best guess, it is somekind of armor defeating military specs round which may not even be legal for sale to the general public State-side.  It may even be a "submachine gun 9mm round."  Just make sure you shoot it out of a strong (like +P+ rated) pistol.  Will it kill someone?  Any 9mm can kill someone.  Be careful.

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Answer 2

Can you add information from the head stamp.

Answer 3

i can't believe the fastest bullets could come from France...what brand is it on the case face?

Answer 4

Blue bullets in Europe generally indicate training ammo, as it does in artillery shells as well.

I have seen German and Swedish blue plastic 9mm. The Swede plastic training ammo has a steel bb in the blue plastic bullet's tip. It fires and will penetrate somewhat, but does not have the power to cycle semi-autos without a reduced spring. The practice guns are usually painted blue as well.

Answer 5

Sounds like some kind of practice ammo?

I have also heard of wooden 7.62X39 rifle bullets for training.

They have a regular metal case but the projectile is wood.

Answer 6

i purchased some of these a few years ago at the local gun show, they will not cycle the action in any of my 9mm's.

While it may have the fastest muzzle velocity, the stuff would not likely fly to a hundred yards.

Also they will not penetrate a pine 1x6.

The ones I have were yugo military training rounds, same idea as frangible ammo.  They are also corrosive.  They have a blue tip and the primer seat is sealed in blue as well.

I knew a guard at Blue Cross Blue Shield, who carried a detective special with plastic .38 ammo, he said the US Air Marshalls carried this stuff and he got it while he was a detective at the local pd.