Re: Info for AP bullets needed!
Some 164 gr bullets will not have the black tip.
The black paint on the tip can get lost by the time the bullets show up on the surplus metal market. I don't know how they pulled down the bullets. Some say they cooked them off.
And the tips can be bent, too.
~ 13 years ago, this stuff was in great supply in ShotGunNews and graded by how beat up they were. The bent tip stuff was worth less money.
There was a lot of talk that someone had made a 308 handgun. This meant that 308 AP was illegal.... in the world of BATF rulings... until challenged in court.
Small Arms Review magazine was the best place to keep up on BATF rulings being overturned.
I think you can put any bullet you can buy in 308 and shoot it yourself, but I don't know about selling the loaded ammo.
I don't know much about it, but I think about half the AP laws went away with the 1984 AWB law sunsetting in 2004. There are still handgun AP laws, or selling handgun AP ammo laws.
You can call up the BATF and ask about federal laws, and call up the locals for state laws.
Those laws that are "felony to manufacture" don't seem to get enforced on individuals, from what I see on tables at gun shows, i.e. 922(r) bayonet lugs and flash hiders.
Those laws that are "felony to posses" rate draconian enforcement, from what I see on the news, i.e. sawed off shotguns, machine guns, and suppressors.
