Light, short, common caliber (.308), fast to use.
Posted on 01/23/2013 11:08:08 AM PST by Perseverando
That's how all bullets work.
Bill Ruger is dead. The person who took over has ignored what Bill Ruger has done and has begun to make guns people want.
I "hear" there is an inexpensive Kit to fix these issues.
Myself I am a pacifist and don't own guns...
That’s not a 10 round magazine...
Great gun if you’re 12 years old.
Light, short, common caliber (.308), fast to use.
I am not sure about the rifle but that looks like a pair of 38’s to me!
I think Bill Ruger’s Son took over but I am not sure of that.
Anyway the company is much more gun enthusiast friendly now.
Heh! I remember that one.
I’ve blown whole weekends watching hickok45’s videos.
I would buy one, but Im waiting on my father to pass his (1940’S era, bolt action, 5 round magazine)down to me and my son....
Dad ?
No, I m not interested in the muzzle loader at this time.
Ruger bump-o-rama !
Marlin 22 Mag, bolt action.
Fortunately, I anticipated this sort of thing long ago - my go-to weapon is a Saiga 12 shotgun.
A highly opinionated and sometimes irascible man, Ruger had little interest in what he saw as an American red herring–zealous gun control. "The people who are demanding more laws to control guns should instead be demanding more laws to control thugs," he once said. He lauded the right of millions of Americans who live in semi-developed or rural areas to defend themselves, a concept lost on (sub)urbanites trained to dial 911. More to the point, he declared, "The [Constitution] says what it says. ‘The right to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ If you can’t live with that, then you shouldn’t be trying to be an American citizen."
I’ve heard a discussion of this. An analysis was done of the various calibers that people have been shot with and the results thereof.
It turns out the .22 didn’t perform much lower than the 9mm.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/06/foghorn/ask-foghorn-22l-for-self-defense/
Amusingly, since Ruger died and the new management team took over, they’re now making more and more and more ‘evil’ weapons that ol’ Bill would not have approved of. They ship their new AR-15 variant with 30 rounders and are cranking out 25s for their .22s. The AR-15 variant isn’t even ban-state neutered.
>That’s how all bullets work.
Not exactly.
There’s degrees of trauma, and locations where you can get immediate incapacitation. Head shots, spine shots, and breaking key bones can immediately incapacitate someone. The .22lr cannot reliably break bones. Very often it will glance off bones. A headshot with a .22lr will very often glance off the skull. Ribs can also deflect the round. If you shoot someone with a .45, it will not be stopped by bone and will penetrate deep.
I’ve talked to EMTs on this subject and while they say the .22lr can be extremely deadly, it doesn’t do it in a timely fashion. Hence my comment about bleeding out. In a self defense situation the target needs to be put down pronto. If he happens to die later after he hurts you, it isn’t terribly important.
Nothing performs as well as a shotgun, then, given the criteria that you’ve given.
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