From Dave Kopel's book, Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense, Chapter Four, "Some Deceptions and Errors Used to Promote Anti-Gun Laws":
The story of the nonexistent "cop-killer" bullet begins in 1976 in Massachusetts, when a handgun-confiscation initiative was defeated in a
landslide. Then in 1982 in
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