Sheesh. Once, just once I'd like these show-boating buffoons to either fix or repeal a bad statute, instead of just stacking yet another euphemistically-named "Act" on top. Reading this statute, it's basically just setting up a conflict with the still-existing statute, which is technically unresolved until a court rules in favor of one or the other.
I don't know how you can logically pass a bill like this that essentially moots the entirety of the LEOPA language (at least, going forward), and yet leave the original law untouched on the books. Seems nonsensical to me.
I would rather they modify the section 1 and 2 subsections into a single sentence banning specific substances from all projectiles. In exchange for removing brass, copper, zinc, bronze, steel, iron, and their alloys from the current list (in light of their ubiquity in rifle ammunition, which cannot logically be separated from pistol ammunition) add a second sentence barring any material above a certain threshold of hardness (hardened steel, certain bronzes, certain aluminum and titanium alloys, and exotic alloys/composites not yet developed that would be hard enough to punch soft armor) from being included in a projectile. I guess toss in an exception for frangible projectiles, but "frangibility" is probably a dangerously subjective terminology.
List of exotic substances that aren't used outside of armor-piercing applications, and a hardness threshold that isn't met outside of armor-piercing applications. Short, simple, easy to legislate, easy to enforce fairly. Hard to abuse or litigate.
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