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I don't really like shooting other people's reloads
I don't think they are reloads due to needing to crimp the tips. Second the tips looking the ones in the photo. Third if the tips are not lose, primers are the same and the rounds all look the same by odds they are not reloads. You can test one by taking it apart seeing if you can re-crimp the tip back on.
It was tried in the 80s with Nylon cases (they still had a metal rim and primer pocket though). They were only available in .38 Spl, and used a special heeled bullet. Cases were resized by boiling. Free samples of 6 rounds were handed out in gun shops (at least in Austin/San Antonio).
They didn't sell... and were dropped within a year.
These do in fact have a powder charge, they are not a primer only setup like the speer plastic training bullets (training for target shooting, DO NOT SHOOT AT PEOPLE). these were full on .38spl ammo, that used a plated heel based bullet, which is why you would need the special bullets for them. They were neat, I still have one of those 6-round sample boxes around here some where in my collection with some .223 PCA. There's a new company out there that's supposed to be selling polymer cased ammunition who I talked to at SHOT this year <broken link removed> before them there was NATEC who made a line of .223 ammo, I shot some and saved a box, it was neat stuff, the PCP looks especially interesting.