5.45x39mm — the famed “poison bullet” according to the Mujahadeen who first encountered the round back in the ’80s. Only a few short years ago, these rounds could be had by the case for less than $250. Thanks to the ATF and some idiot who allegedly built a pistol in the caliber, it was deemed an armor-piercing pistol round and banned from public sale.
This made the round roughly as expensive as 5.56mm for over a decade before new sanctions stemming from the war in Ukraine drove the final nails into the round’s proverbial coffin. But that’s not the end of the story for Russia’s answer to America’s favorite 5.56mm round. More and more ammomakers are tooling up to churn out this round, both foreign and domestic.
So, it makes sense that new companies
