So many levels....so much disbelief.
Posted on 12/13/2013 9:59:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The .223/5.56 is adequate out to 300 yards. Anything beyond that and retained energy is questionable. The effectiveness of any round at any range is the amount of energy that you can put on and in a target. For extended range shooting a heavier bullet traveling and a good velocity is a much better choice. It has and retains superior energy to the smaller lighter bullets. Hyper velocity lighter bullets do not make up for the difference in weight. That is not how the math works out.
I would take a look at the Shepherd scopes. I have a couple and use them on long range targets/hunting. The key to this scope is you have to reload. By being able to adjust the velocity you can fine tune the down range bullet impact and really get great results at 500-1000 yards. If you reload and do the research and practice this scope makes long range shooting much easier for most.
Second, are we to believe that in a Boston supermarket that there are MULTIPLE “gun magazines” in the check out aisle?
She was at a store in upstate New York.
Silencers are legal in most states. $200 transfer tax and tight paperwork.
Freepers should support banning guns in high population density areas. Socialist voters are not Americans and should not enjoy American liberties.
So many levels....so much disbelief.
You want Obama voters to have the means to take more of your stuff? If your enemy wants to disarm themselves, don’t stand in their way.
I don’t want to give her a hard time over her Dad’s suicide. That is not going to change the meaning of her writing in any way. Not for me anyway.
“...—the NFA provision banning “silencers” in 1934 was probably the most foolish of any of the stupidly enacted provisions of the act—the earliest federal example of “feel good”legislation was not designed to solve any problem but to make political points-—”
According to the magazine _Machine Gun News_ (later named _Small Arms Review_), publishing in the late 1990s, the Federal legislation curtailing gun ownership in the 1930s was debated and passed in an over-emotional, fact-starved fashion very much like we endure today.
National legislators wanted to ban “machine guns” outright (only the most notorious of a slew of “gangster guns” the idiot media was waxing hysteric about), but legal counsel warned them that any such move was unconstitutional on its face and would be struck down by the courts in short order. Confiscatory taxes were proposed, to deter purchase; none of the legislators had the slightest idea how high the tax should be. One suggested the tax ought to be 100 percent of the price. Not one of the august representatives had any notion of what actual prices were; reportedly, an aide was sent out to inquire what the “average” price might be. $200.00 came back as the reply. And so it was written into the law.
Sound suppressors, full-auto arms, short-barrel rifles and shotguns, smoothbore handguns, and a small handful of oddities have not been banned outright, merely heavily taxed and tightly regulated, requiring prior Federal permission for manufacture and transfer (states and municipalities often lay on tighter restrictions). As time has progressed, regulatory agencies have placed ever-stricter rules on manufacture and transfer, especially to private citizens, and with a greater emphasis on what one might loosely term “military” arms. Fully automatic arms of new make were banned for private manufacture and sale in May 1985, effectively freezing the total number of legally transferable machine guns at a total of about 285,000 nationwide. Not even a Federally licensed gunmaker can build a machine gun unless it will be sold to DoD or law enforcement agencies. Federally licensed dealers cannot even accept transfer of new machine guns unless a law enforcement agency or other Federally approved government entity has supplied that dealer - in advance - specifically requesting a “sample” for evaluation. Exact make, model, and caliber must be written down first.
Suppressors and most of the other categories are less tightly restricted. Interestingly, all of this has stirred collector interest and steep price increases; the $200.00 transfer tax is far less of a deterrent now, as it’s a smaller fraction of total costs.
I think with advent of more reliable frangible projectiles, the lethality of the 5.56 mm round extends to 400-600 yards depending on barrel length. It has always been a bullet full of compromises which makes it a jack of all trades/master of none kind of round. Despite that, from 0-300 yards, the 5.56 mm is very capable of creating devastating unsurvivable wounds. The low recoil allows one to create many such wounds in multiple targets in a matter of seconds. But if I knew that all my targets were going to be 400 yards and beyond, I would definitely be looking at a .308 winchester or better. I’m familiar with shepard scopes. I’ll have to consider that option. I like fine crosshairs but there’s no denying the shepard’s useful features.
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