2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 61 - Firearms and Other Dangerous Articles
6121 - Certain bullets prohibited.

     § 6121.  Certain bullets prohibited.
        (a)  Offense defined.--It is unlawful for any person to
     possess, use or attempt to use a KTW teflon-coated bullet or
     other armor-piercing ammunition while committing or attempting
     to commit a crime of violence as defined in section 6102
     (relating to definitions).
        (b)  Grading.--An offense under this section constitutes a
     felony of the third degree.
        (c)  Sentencing.--Any person who is convicted in any court of
     this Commonwealth of a crime of violence and who uses or
     carries, in the commission of that crime, a firearm loaded with
     KTW ammunition or any person who violates this section shall, in
     addition to the punishment provided for the commission of the
     crime, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than
     five years. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
     court shall not suspend the sentence of any person convicted of
     a crime subject to this subsection nor place him on probation
     nor shall the term of imprisonment run concurrently with any
     other term of imprisonment including that imposed for the crime
     in which the KTW ammunition was being used or carried. No person
     sentenced under this subsection shall be eligible for parole.
        (d)  Definition.--As used in this section the term "armor-
     piercing ammunition" means ammunition which, when or if fired
     from any firearm as defined in section 6102 that is used or
     attempted to be used in violation of subsection (a) under the
     test procedure of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and
     Criminal Justice Standard for the Ballistics Resistance of
     Police Body Armor promulgated December 1978, is determined to be
     capable of penetrating bullet-resistant apparel or body armor
     meeting the requirements of Type IIA of Standard NILECJ-STD-
     0101.01 as formulated by the United States Department of Justice
     and published in December of 1978.
     (Dec. 21, 1984, P.L.1210, No.230, eff. imd.)

        1984 Amendment.  Act 230 added section 6121.