
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501100029
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: HUNTSVILLE, ALA.                                LENGTH: Short

RHINO BULLETS WIN FEDERAL APPROVAL

Federal regulators have decided to approve the sale of the Rhino-Ammo fragmenting bullet after tests showed the notorious ammunition is no different than other hollow-point bullets.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Washington test-fired less than a dozen of the new bullets and will license them within 60 days, bureau spokesman Tom Hill said Friday.

``According to our tests, it's no different from any other hollow-point bullets on the market; and as long as it's not armor-piercing, which it's not, we have no problem licensing its manufacture,'' he said.

David Keen, the Huntsville chemist who invented Rhino-Ammo, had claimed that the bullets could cause catastrophic wounds and instantaneous death. The bullets are made of metal-encased plastic containing lead pellets.

- Associated Press

by CNB