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Rubber bullets were originally created as a safe method of crowd control by inflicting superficial but painful injuries
to deter rioters. Over the years, however, they have become the weapon of choice in putting down insurrections, riots,
and in dispersing unruly mobs in urban hot spots around the world.
First used by the British in 1970 in Northern Ireland, the configuration was a hard solid rubber slug that was fired at
the ground so that it would bounce up and hit the legs of demonstrators, thereby immobilizing them. Today, there are a
number of different forms including rubber-coated metal bullets, rubber plugs, all-plastic bullets, beanbag rounds
composed of fabric bags filled with lead pellets, and a blunt cylindrical missile composed of three metal cores
encapsulated in a hard rubber shell.
Pelmor® was asked to create a less lethal but nonetheless effective bullet that could be used more safely and accurately
in riot-like conditions at short ranges. The bullet had to be a certain specified density and could not contain any metal,
such as lead, which could increase the potential for serious bodily injury and/or chronic health problems associated
with heavy metal toxicity.
We developed a riot control projectile that is a very hard round rubber sphere made of a proprietary combination of
elastomers and special fillers that meet the requirements of the manufacturer in every respect. We are currently
developing a number of variations of the original configuration.
For additional information, contact Pelmor® Laboratories, Inc., 401 Lafayette Street, Newtown, PA 18940-0309;
Phone: 800-772-6969 or 215-968-3334; Fax: 215-968-3676; E mail: rubber@pelmor.com
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