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To: rktman

Exactly. A round of .223 or 5.56mm is not “high-powered;” in fact, it is underpowered enough that several states ban it for hunting deer, which are in the same weight class as people.

But why should an article on firearms be accurate?


29 posted on 08/09/2019 10:32:46 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr; rktman
A round of .223 or 5.56mm is not “high-powered;” in fact, it is underpowered enough that several states ban it for hunting deer, which are in the same weight class as people. But why should an article on firearms be accurate?

These Left-wing @ss-hats just write their own definitions. For example:

rimfire ammo = "deadly"
centerfire, too anemic for hunting = "high powered"
traditional hunting rifle ammo = "super high powered"
magnum rifle ammo = "mega-super-dooper high powered"
exotic cartridges (.50BMG, .338 Lapua, etc.) = "weapons of mass destruction"

And of course, anything that fires any of the above (including rimfire) is a "military-grade automatic sniper/assault rifle"...

34 posted on 08/09/2019 2:03:50 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: Ancesthntr

That is why switching from the M-14 to the M-16 was problematic in Viet Nam. A 55-grain bullet is no brush buster like the “.30-06 Short” 7.62 NATO, one of the secondary reasons the 5.56 NATO is not suitable for deer.


35 posted on 08/09/2019 4:29:22 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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