Ever fire an AK74? The 5.45 round is very gentle in recoil and it is very easy to keep the rifle on target. They must shoot like a dream in full auto. I much prefer it to the 7.62 AK, and between the two it would absolutely be my choice for relatively rapid, moderate distance shooting. Put a good optic on it and anyone can be “accurate enough” with it. That’s the thing people miss when they get all wrapped up in the AR’s inherent accuracy advantage over the AK—the AK is plenty accurate for combat. Also, IIRC, many of the Dallas cops were returning fire with pistols, which would basically leave them as sitting ducks for someone with cover and a rifle. The guy was no sniper; he was basically plinking away at opponents who posed no real threat of effective return fire. Cops at a protest that had the potential to go bad should have been armed with carbines, not handguns, and they should have sought cover before attempting to engage the shooter. I rant and rave about militarized police, but an AR15 today is about the same as grandpa’s 30-30 70 years ago. It’s the everyman rifle. Hell, save some money and equip police with AK74s. They can ride around in squad cars forever and still run when needed.
Yes, fired both. Texas cops are well trained. I just find it hard to believe that the presumably untrained PFC was alone...
That makes sense.
If a target (a bad guy, needing to be shot) is out of reasonable, 30-30 like range (say, a 100 yards?) then bring in the bull barrel Remington Model 700 in .308
Could easily have been the 7N6 rounds used as well, recently banned as being classified as armor piercing (AP).