Breaching round

It is typically fired at a range of 6 inches (15 cm) or less, aimed at the hinges or the area between the doorknob and lock and doorjamb, and is designed to destroy the object it hits and then disperse into a relatively harmless powder.

These frangible rounds are made of a dense sintered material, often metal powder in a binder such as wax, which can destroy a lock or hinge and then immediately disperse.

The most effective use of this round is with a "stand-off breacher" attached to the muzzle of a specially converted shotgun.

[citation needed] The British SAS also use these breaching rounds in their shotguns- most commonly the Remington pump action.

Though designed not to endanger people behind or around a door, a breaching round is easily lethal if fired directly at a human target.