#AmmunitionBan

The Japanese Ministry of the Environment has announced that they will begin gradually regulating the use of lead ammunition beginning in 2025 in order to prevent the poisoning of wild birds. Hunting has become quite popular in the island nation, however, authorities in the prefecture of Hokkaido have already enacted a similar lead ammunition ban back in 2000. This most recent Japan Lead Ammunition ban comes as a response to a survey conducted that showed that lead poisoning was present in several species after lead pellets were consumed by waterfowl.

All over the news lately has been the ATF’s intent to ban commonly available AR15 ammunition known as M855, SS109, or “green tip” ammunition. They claim that is poses a threat to law enforcement officers, citing that it possesses unique armor piercing properties. To see if M855 poses a special threat to a lawman in body armor, I decided to perform an experiment using ammunition that will NOT be subject to the ban.