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Originally Posted by camaro5
Lucy, he says the jacket is a bullet.
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full metal jacket (or
FMJ) is a bullet encased in a shell of copper alloy (such as gilding metal or cupronickel) or a steel-alloy shell. This shell can extend around all of the bullet, or often just the front and sides with the rear left as exposed lead. The jacket allows for higher muzzle velocities than bare lead without depositing significant amounts of metal in the bore. It also prevents damage to bores from steel or armor-piercing core materials. The appearance of FMJ ammunition is highly distinctive when compared to hollow-point or soft point bullets.
