Gunmaker Arms the Military and the Stars

ap ^ | Nov 25, 11:21 AM EST | ROSE FRENCH

[SeeRushToldU_So]

You do know that is bogus?

[LibWhacker]

Nope, I didn't know. Have you seen it before?

[ezo4]

yeah and he prolly owns 5 or 6 of them

[logic]

I could only agree with that when the 1934 cun control act is thrown out as unconstitutional....

[logic]

I was facitiously playing devil's advocate.... :)

[R. Scott]

"You can't really hunt with it because it would destroy most of the meat."

He must be using the newer Mk211 round – but it’s not available to the general public, the same with the AP round and the old HE rounds. The FMJ ball round should pass cleanly through the meat if it doesn't hit bone.

[R. Scott]

How does one avaoid breaking or dislocating one's shoulder when firing this thing?

You tuck the butt in tight to the shoulder.

[BigTom85]

ouch! Will cost ya more to shoot it than to gas up the tank on the truck!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Yes, I was amazed that humans could be blown apart like that. I looked into the video and it is actually a type of varmit that is being shot. I think they were called rock gophers.

[elbucko]

I'll bet I could come up with a computerized mount that would do the job.

I'm quite sure that you and some other ingenious freepers could. The problem is in the testing. Unless you're wearing a towel on your head, held on by a coiled fan belt and are shooting at Cessna's from a Mosque, the feds will get very interested in your activities..........;^)

anyone with half a brain,.... would go after aircraft stopped in traffic on the taxiway, or coming around to the active just before takeoff.

Which brings up the more pertinent subject of airport perimeter security and not the banning of firearms. But then this would require someone in government to think.

[El Gato]

The problem is in the testing. Unless you're wearing a towel on your head, held on by a coiled fan belt and are shooting at Cessna's from a Mosque, the feds will get very interested in your activities..........;^)

Do the testing shooting at model aircraft. Good enough for the military, should be good enough for FReepers. Could even use lighter caliber rifles. It would serve to validate the design simulation and the design. Then change the gun to the .50 and input different parameters, primarily estimated range (and you could use a device to help with that too) into the controller of the mount.

But then this would require someone in government to think.

Now that could be really dangerous, not to mention hazardous to the health of the Republic.

[El Gato]

ouch! Will cost ya more to shoot it than to gas up the tank on the truck!

Well not really. Remember it's not a machine gun and that it recoils about like a 12 gauge with full power hunting loads. You don't shoot many rounds for each range session.

[Richard-SIA]

Actually all you need to kill a chopper in those mountains is a ROCK!

More than one soviet crew learned the hard way to never get BELOW a Muj., or take a large rock thru the blades.

[elbucko]

Do the testing shooting at model aircraft. Good enough for the military, should be good enough for FReepers.

Perhaps to evaluate the concept, but the laws of "scaling" should not be ignored. For the same reason that there is a "stand-off scale" in flying model airplanes, one should be skeptical of scale tests and their results. The winds aloft that may effect the flight of a thirty caliber round, will have little effect on a much faster and heavier .50BMG. More weapons have worked perfectly on the drawing board at Seal Level, than at 30'000 feet altitude in combat conditions.

Politicians write "perfect" laws at their own mental or political "Sea Level" that fail in the test of reality. The "50" ban is one of them. Another example of scaling, but with politics instead of reality.

[185JHP]

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