Oh no! MoR poWeR for civilians
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This kind of article shows how fundamentally journalists and the left don't understand guns. On the scale of "power" 5.56 is one of the smallest rifle cartridges. Real assault rifles in chamberings larger than 5.56 have been around since the 1940's and their semi-auto civilian equivilents have been available for decades.
retards never heard of an AR10... invented in the 1950s.
5.56 only became popular because of surplus ammo.
It's never been about understanding, it's about propagating fear.
Considering how many of them never even held a gun let alone seen a gun shot IRL there's no surprise there. This is what journalists think guns are like.
I've also seen a version of that with that speech laid over video of little girls firing AR-15s.
Kuntzman!
May his meme'd infamy live forever.
Most powerful gun I have they would claim they don't want to take old school hunting rifles like that. The least powerful one would scare the shit out of them because it's black and looks cool. It's also heavy as fuck and would be totally worthless to carry around. They are too stupid about guns to really have any say.
FAL?
FAL shouldn't be black. It should have glorious wood furniture.
It's not worthless since it is the one weapon purposefully designed to slay communist scum.
I stand corrected.
They literally think it's the gun that makes the bullet more powerful not the bullet calibre.
Of course it will, but they think it's literally a scarier gun of the same size has more "power" than an AR-15 shooting the same ammo.
That black molding makes it deadlier, Don'tchaknow!?
Ban fully semi-automatic assault guns now!
Plot twist: no one buys it because the ammo is too expensive, and 5.56 is good enough for joggers.
I too have priced Creedmore rounds recently.
Nope.
If you can't own a howitzer you're not in a free state.
Recreational nukes please.
Mass shooters generally aren't targeting people in bulletproof vests. I don't really care what caliber a mass shooter uses, it's largely irrelevant. As I'm sure you all know, Virginia Tech was done with pistols; 9mm...and even .22LR.
The gun is not the important part, the training is. Some shooter could attack with an $8,000 SPEAR and fail, someone else could attack with a .22LR AK or something and kill a bunch of people. Not the best example, as I was going for the extreme, but someone could do a lot of damage with 9mm pistols for sub-$200 (or at least they were a couple years ago), or a sub-$1000 5.56 AR.
I'm really not concerned about well off civilians being able to purchase a civilian version of a military rifle. Also, battle rifles have been available to civilians forever already. No one cares. Heck, for the price of a SPEAR you could even purchase a legal machine gun, although that's the extreme low end for that, I think. And that's not even getting into modifications or anything.
Freaking out about a SPEAR just shows how clueless anti-gunners are.
Now, if we could get some M250s, that would be pretty cool...
Journalists believe that more kinetic energy per shot means it takes away more of your HP when you get shot with it, because their only knowledge of guns comes from Calladooty. They don't understand concepts like recoil, penetration, over penetration, noise, etc. They think that getting a more powerful gun is like getting a new sword in an RPG: stronger weapon = faster killing.
There's simply no thought to the actual physics involved.
This doesn't even make sense. All that it's saying is that a rifle can handle more powerful ammunition.
How powerful does this ammunition have to be that only a new rifle can survive it's bore pressure or something? It honestly sounds like a Sig marketing gimmick.
If they were even smart about firearms, they would focus on the ammunition (like they did with steel core ammunition).
it's dumbass journalist bullshit getting triggered off of marketingspeak. they never heard of an AR10, which has been around since the 50s. instead of shooting a 308 or any of the 6.5 variants, it shoots a 6.8mm cartridge. big fucking whoop.
Okay, so it's not a 5.56. That at least makes more sense. They literally just couldn't explain that.
Its a gun from the 1950s and a cartridge from the 60s.
The civilian version does not come with a suppressor and it would not make anyone harder to locate. It doesn't fire subsonic rounds and it intended to eliminate muzzle flash.
I actually, legitimately hate journalists.
theyre literally projecting because that fucking thing was adopted specifically so the military would have a gun thats good against civilian body armor.
“muh fuckin russia” some of those mfers are running around with mosin-nagants, youre not fooling me fedboi