Medical personnel have noted that unlike say a 9mm which punches a clean hole in a person
Whitetail deer are smaller and lighter than average adults. Typically they run somewhere around 125 pounds, IIRC.
Like the apocryphal story of the old Texas Ranger who carried a cocked-and-locked 1911 on his belt? Someone noticed the cocked hammer one day and asked him if that wasn't dangerous. The Ranger allegedly replied, "Shucks, if it wasn't dangerous I wouldn't carry it."Lohman446 said:The argument for the individual right to bear arms does not deny the effectiveness of such arms. In fact, to some degree, it relies on it.
Yes, there are. I worked with one for a couple of years (Marine, and -- like me -- a Vietnam veteran). The other one I know is a good friend, and he is a shooter -- but he shoots hunting rifles and has no problem with universal background checks, assault weapon bans, or any of the current crop of useless, anti-gun proposals. In fact, he favors them -- they don't affect what he shoots.rickyrick said:But, there are real vets who say the same rhetoric.
Perhaps, but the problem today is that many are convinced that the AR is simply more lethal than most other firearms, and you're not going to convince them otherwise with your esoteric and arcane knowledge of ballistics. Quite the contrary, actually.jmr40 said:Many non gun people have been led to believe that the AR-15 shoots a round much more powerful than a typical hunting cartridge.
Yup. The argument we need to win is whether armed self-defense by private citizens is justifiable. If so, then EFFECTIVE armed self defense is in turn justifiable. All else flows from that.Glenn E. Meyer said:We cannot win any argument by claim[ing that] a certain gun is 'nicer' than others so we should be able to have it.
Yup. The argument we need to win is whether armed self-defense by private citizens is justifiable. If so, then EFFECTIVE armed self defense is in turn justifiable. All else flows from that.
A question: is the .223 and 5.56 unique in that they fragment, which from my understanding is what causes the massive damage, or do other rounds such as .308 and 7.62x51 do the same? Or 30.06?