From:	Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: caseless ammo
Date:	Mon, 5 Jun 1995 16:35:44 -0400

>>>>> "cocheese" == cocheese <ZKLJ1@****.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
writes:

cocheese> Caseless ammo supposedly has the chemical solvent or whatever
cocheese> to entirely burn away or dissolves when fired, thus leaving no
cocheese> physical traces (with the except- ion of chemical traces in
cocheese> the firearm) that it ever existed.

You mean the plasticizer that bonds the powder into a solid block.

cocheese> I don't think that this is possible.

You're right. Anything that burns (oxidizes) is going to leave traces of
some sort somewhere: on the weapon, on the projectile, in the air down
range, whatever.

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