A Tennessee engineer’s plan to create a bullet that could pierce police body armor would likely lead to federal legislation prohibiting the ammunition, according to gun law attorneys.

Atlas Arms founder Austin Thomas Jones says he’s formulating a 9mm Luger to blast through all soft armor and some rifle-rated hard armor — including a legal workaround of a 1986 federal law banning certain types of armor-piercing ammunition.

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