Last year, Congressman Eliot Engel introduced legislation to ban the Belgian FN Five-seveN pistol, a weapon that can currently be purchased legally and has the ability to penetrate police bulletproof vests “from two football fields away,” according to Engel. The gun is advertised as being able to cut through 48 layers of Kevlar, the synthetic fiber used in most bulletproof vests, at 50 meters. After the same type of gun was recently used in a Philadelphia shooting in which a man was shot in the hand and a child cut by flying glass near a car detail shop owned by NFL All-Pro receiver Marvin Harrison, Engel renewed his battle to get his legislation, the PLEA Act, through Congress.
“There is no rationale for anyone, except law enforcement officers, to possess this weapon with its devastating penetrating power,” Engel said in a statement. “We can protect our police officers if we have the common sense to act now to ban this deadly weapon.”
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