![]() ![]() ![]() My only reply for now is: read the 1981 article and decide for yourself its level of accuracy about firearms. In addition, I worked on liberal campaigns from Gary Hart to Bernie Sanders and am not a right wing nut. Of course, I am just one more opinion in the wind but I have actually shaken Mikhail Kalashnikov’s hand, worked for some of the largest legal machinegun dealers and firearms importers, and have known the owner of the company that manufactures the US army’s heavy machineguns since I was a kid and have a bit more than your average layman’s knowledge. ![]() More than happy to have an intelligent conversion about this because until the left can speak with at least a modicum of accuracy about weapons, the right is never going to listen to or trust any gun control efforts and because the laws are written by people who mistake appearance for reality, gun control laws are rarely effective. The shooter in the Texas tower had a bolt action rifle and if you want to talk about lethality, hunting rifles are VASTLY more lethal. They are used for that reason, not because they are more lethal or even more effective. ARs are popular because the kool kids like them and they make cowards feel powerful. The AR was somewhat effective shooting malnourished 100lb Vietnamese boys, it is NOT proving lethal against full grown men in the ME. Dead people don’t need supply trains, wounded people tie up vast amounts of resources. In addition, what lethality the round had originally has been discarded in favor of accuracy by increasing the rifling twist and hyper stabilizing the projectile.īut most of all, modern tactics which drove the adoption of the AR and other modern assault weapons was the understanding and belief that wounding the enemy was more effective than killing him. 223/5.56 round is being replaced because it LACKS lethality, it isn’t legal to be used on deer or anything larger for that reason. I live in a crappy neighborhood, and the local beat cop recommends a 20-gauge semi-automatic shotgun with a laser sight for home defense because it will stop a home invader at the less than 20-foot distance of most home invasions, but it won't go through a wall and kill you neighbor.Īs someone with a lifelong liberal orientation but who has also spent a lifetime in and around firearms, your article is worthy of Fox news. I also think that part of the solution to the gun violence issue is finding a non-lethal home defense weapon to help remove the incentive to own either a pistol or long gun. 30 caliber (now known as the NATO 7.62mm x 51mm) round to a smaller, higher velocity round, but budget issues because of the Depression prevented the change over.ĭuring basic training, I also had a drill sergeant tell us that the reason M16's were replacing M14's was both to allow the increasing number of women in the military to be able to use the weapon and to allow us carry more bullets. I remember reading in a book on military history during my enlistment which said that there was a proposal in the 1930s for the US Military to switch from the existing. ![]()
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