Handgun ammunition capable of defeating soft body armor, as worn by police officers, was invented in the 1960s for police officers who found it hard to defeat automobile doors and window glass. In 1982, NBC made a "story" out of the projectile, despite the fact that any rifle or shotgun projectile can easily defeat soft body armor. There is only one incident of a police officer being shot in the U.S. by a handgun projectile specifically designed to defeat body armor. In 1994, a company attempted to market handgun ammunition called "Black Rhino," which claimed to defeat body armor. However, the ammunition was never marketed. As a consequence of bad publicity, Winchester's "Black Talon" expanding ammunition was pulled from the market. Resultingly, any bullet that was black, had the name "black" on its packaging, or was reported to have any amount of teflon, has been mistakenly labelled a "Cop-Killer Bullet." Despite the complete lack of evidence that any such ammunition has ever been used to injure or kill a law enforcement officer, anti-gun groups, certain Senators, and Presidential administrations have used a non-existent projectile to terrify the American public. It is generally believed that the entire concept of this obvious propaganda scheme is to eventually define all projectiles, for rifles, shotguns, and pistols as "armor-piercing," thus giving an open door to prescribe all ammunition, including that for sporting use, as "Cop-Killer Bullets."

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