I only ever buy federal and hollow points but isn’t there like special ammo you can put in almost any small arm that can do damage to body armor? I feel like I hear guys talking about it but I don’t actually know of any and there wasn’t any when I was in the army. But that was many moons ago lol.
Yeah, there are AP rounds in 9mm that can penetrate kevlar or some IIIA plates, but they're heavily controlled and rare. All AP pistol rounds are illegal in the States AFAIK. There are some gray areas like the 5.7mm which is naturally good at armor pen, but they had to downgrade the armor pen characteristics to sell five-seven ammo on the civilian market.