Posted on 10/04/2002 7:21:58 PM PDT by newsperson999
A shell was found near that shooting this afternoon in VA that was found to be a 223 cal fired from a high powered rifle..also test confirm that the man that died in DC last night also died from the same type of ammo..
Can someone explain how the DC Metro police, FBI, Secret Service, and various other law enforcement agencies can not locate a truck the size pictured? For one thing, it's not exactly a vehicle that can "blend-in" and "disappear". Secondly, there can't be very many of those vehicles licensed in Virginia or Maryland. Since it is the size of a vehicle which Freeper bloggers have conjectured could be used for terrorism; this event doesn't exact give me confidence in either weapons indiction or control of WMD in our borders!
So will my shooter!!
I meant expended shells show the shooting point...
victim shows the end point...
ballistic science can do wonderful things!!
It looks like the .223 is NOT high caliber, but it IS high velocity.
The high velocity gun shot wounds have variable rates of survival, primarily predicated upon the site of trauma. Obviously, if a major artery or vessel is severed, you're dead. On the other hand, I recall seeing multiple patients as a lowly medical student and watching the heroic trauma surgeons saving life. I remember one patient where the intern was showing me how to clean bullet wounds and attempt to identify the location of the round in the body. The patient was talking to us and we stuck a long cotton tipped swab into his neck wound... As this 4 inch long swab went in one end, the intern realized...it kept on going through his neck... right through the other side! It was cool... the patient lived too (too bad he was just another inner city gang banger type).
Since they did not recover the brass before this, I thought he was using a bolt action. Now I am not so sure. However, Fredericksburg is near Quantico and Ft. AP Hill, so I would not be surprised to hear they found .223 brass there.
It's not. 5.56 generally refers to a .223 made to NATO specs, whereas .223 generally refers to the .223 Remington cartridge, specifically. There is a subtle difference between the two, and between a .223 Rem chamber and a 5.56 NATO chamber. Here's a little explanation from Armalite:
223 Remington (SAAMI standard) and 5.56mm (NATO standard) rifle chambers are almost identical. The difference is largely limited to the “freebore,” the cylindrical space in front of the case mouth, and the “lead” or “leade,” the tapered region that eases the bullet into full engagement with the rifling. NATO and SAAMI cartridges can normally be used interchangeably with no problem.
The SAAMI chamber features a less freebore and a tighter leade, which normally provide better bullet fit and match-grade accuracy than the NATO chamber. It is wonderfully suited to match bullets.
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