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The depths of stupidity are apparently limitless. But, "reporters", what subject aren't the experts? As for jojo, time for another skinny dip there jojo.
1 posted on 07/12/2016 8:08:07 AM PDT by rktman
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Scott Pelly dutifully performing his assigned duty of constructing a narrative blaming the NRA for the cop deaths.


2 posted on 07/12/2016 8:08:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Why hasn't your administration restricted the sale of armor-piercing rounds through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives?”

BATF sells armor piercing bullets?

3 posted on 07/12/2016 8:10:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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There’s no globalist agenda here...


4 posted on 07/12/2016 8:10:25 AM PDT by Crucial
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I thought most of the officers were shot in the head.


7 posted on 07/12/2016 8:10:54 AM PDT by lacrew
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That’s the first I knew that depleted uranium rounds were available to the public. Does Walmart have them? What calibers?


8 posted on 07/12/2016 8:10:58 AM PDT by meatloaf
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Too late. Been there done that.


11 posted on 07/12/2016 8:12:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Any rifle bullet will go right thru a vest only rated to stop handgun ammo.
This is the latest buzz word being pushed by anti-gunners.


12 posted on 07/12/2016 8:13:28 AM PDT by Zathras
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He was using a Saiga (civilian AK-74). I have the same rifle. I don’t know if it was a 7.62x39 or not.


13 posted on 07/12/2016 8:14:20 AM PDT by Snowybear
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CBS Anchor Demands Executive Action on ‘Armor Piercing Bullets’

Well since it's an anchor for SeeBS demanding it, to hell with the laws and The Constitution, it must be right.

/Extreme Sarc.

14 posted on 07/12/2016 8:16:00 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Madam Benghazi's attitude toward the people would make Marie Antoinette look empathetic.)
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Any rifle round will penetrate a cop’s vest which is designed for pistol rounds... I don’t think they wear plates on a day-to-day basis (or didn’t before this event).


15 posted on 07/12/2016 8:17:06 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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If someone’s shooting at you with a high powered rifle, there is no body armor that’s going to help you.


16 posted on 07/12/2016 8:18:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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CBS Anchor Demands ...
People in hell demand ice water.
18 posted on 07/12/2016 8:18:37 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Just trying to resurrect the old “Cop-Killer Bullet” mime.

Standard .222 soft nose will go through 1/4 inch steel plate just like a drill.


19 posted on 07/12/2016 8:20:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Stupidity piercing truth is what the left really needs to worry about.


21 posted on 07/12/2016 8:22:25 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“The depths of stupidity are apparently limitless.”


Exactly.

The sale of AP ammo for pistols HAS been banned.

However, when you are dealing with rifles you have a different story. First, rifles are held with 2 hands, meaning that they can be constructed to be much heavier than handguns. This means, among other things, that the action can (and usually is) built far more strongly than in a handgun...which means that the action can handle significantly higher pressure. Second, rifles have a longer barrel - significantly longer in almost all cases...which means higher velocity for the bullet as it exits the barrel. Thus, when you combine significantly higher pressures AND a longer barrel, you are dealing with MUCH higher velocities. The bottom line of all of this being very simple: protecting a person against a torso wound from a rifle is significantly more difficult than with a handgun. There are vests that can protect against penetration from rifle rounds, but even with normal FMJ bullets (which, for the uninformed, simply means that the lead bullets are coated in a very thin layer of copper to prevent both fouling of the barrel by soft lead, and also to prevent splattering of lead when the bullet hits the target), such protection requires both thicker Kevlar AND a ceramic or steel plate within the Kevlar vest. As such, the police officers in Dallas were probably equipped with vests that would have protected them against a torso shot with a pistol, NOT a rifle - firing NON-AP rounds.

Here’s a hint, Scotty: do some actual research into firearms and ballistics - then you might not sound like such an ignorant fool.


22 posted on 07/12/2016 8:22:29 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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How does an idiot who knows nothing of firearms come to run a news organization?


23 posted on 07/12/2016 8:23:37 AM PDT by cassiusking
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Currently only AP above .22 caliber designed for use in handguns are illegal. The ATF ruled that steel core 7.63x39 as well as 7.62 NATO several were “handgun ammunition”years ago.


27 posted on 07/12/2016 8:27:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?495073-Heads-Up-Day-of-Rage-Protests-Are-Scheduled-for-July-15th-in-These-American-Cities


34 posted on 07/12/2016 8:33:30 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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If you push a standard .308cal hi-performance hunting bullet of 165 grains in excess of 3000fps out a Remington Model 700 hunting rifle it will penetrate 3/8" steel plate quite nicely at 150yrds.

I know how kevlar works and a standard body armor vest doesnt stand a chance against it.


37 posted on 07/12/2016 8:39:18 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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A Bolt if properly used, from in an Old Englih Lomg Bow or a Bolt from a Cross - Bow can not be stopped by even current body armor; unless you’re IRON = Man.


38 posted on 07/12/2016 8:41:04 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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