High powered? Like .50 BMG?
High powered? Like .50 BMG?
The term "high-powered" means many things to many people, and therefore isn't of much value.
Even the humble .22 long rifle round can be lethal, and often is. Self-described "journalists" whose actual intent is to crank out propaganda for the far left tend to drag out the indefinite term "high-powered" for any firearm that looks at all military. Any rifle with a scope becomes a "sniper rifle." People who are too intellectually lazy to distinguish among "bullets," "cartridges," and "shells" frequently slather on additional adjectives in the hope of frightening people even less knowledgeable than they themselves.
What actually matters isn't the caliber, barrel length, feeding mechanism, sights, material the stock was made of, barrel crown or absence thereof, or weight, but the intent of the person with the firearm. That simple fact, of course, doesn't square with the Marxist scheme of demonizing all firearms and those who dare insist we commoners have a right to keep and bear them, so it's ignored and denied.
Those whom totalitarians can not persuade, they silence, ideally by murdering.