§ 11-47-20.1 - Armor-piercing bullets. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-47-20.1

   § 11-47-20.1  Armor-piercing bullets.– It shall be unlawful within this state for any person to import, manufacture,sell, purchase, or otherwise transfer any bullets which have steel inner coresor cores of equivalent hardness and truncated cones and which are designed foruse in pistols as armor-piercing or metal-piercing bullets. Any person whoviolates the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment fornot more than three (3) years, or a fine of not more than five thousand dollars($5,000), or both. This section shall not apply to the purchase of thosebullets by the Rhode Island state police, by any city or town police departmentof the state of Rhode Island, or by the department of environmental managementfor display as a part of a firearms training course under its auspices.