A handgun under the shirt of a person near a victim is going to do no good stopping an "invisible" sniper a couple hundred yards away.Going prone and using a handgun one can hit a human sized target out to 100 yards. Several of the shots have been at about 100 yards distance. Further if someone who is armed comes upon a rifleman sighting in some other direction and sees said rifleman take a shot and an innocent fall then pumps five or six rounds into the shooter that would be an instance where a handgun would do some good.
Hell, I can ring a seven inch gong about 2 of 3 times with a .22 pistol at 100 yards from a prone possition or a rest. And I have 50 year old eyes and am only an ok shooter. A ccw holder could take a rest and timed fire a magazine full at this killer out to maybe 150 to 200 yards and have a good chance of hitting him. Then he would be wounded and much easier to find.
Not to mention those of us with "Easy Rider Rifle Racks" in our vehicles. I suppose that that is verboten in Maryland and Virginia, though.
Going prone and using a handgun one can hit a human sized target out to 100 yards. Several of the shots have been at about 100 yards distance.
Thank you Harpseal!!! I made a similar statement on a related thread and couldn't believe the flak I got.
I'm starting to think that most of the posters who like to comment about firearms have never really even held onto one... I can consistently hit a man sized target at 100 yards with my scoped 8 5/8" barreled .454 cassull and yes for those of you who talk alot but don't have the info that is a revolver! I'm not bragging most people at the range can do it too, I'm just trying to clear up the disinformation being posted here.
With all of the comments like "It takes a trained sharpshooter to make a 100 yard shot" blah blah blah! You'd think that the closest any of you ever came to a rifle was watching re-runs of gunsmoke! I do not know one single person who owns a rifle that could not consistently hit a man sized target at 100 yards. 100 yards with a rifle is NOT long range, in fact that is short range in most peoples books! We have a 400 yard range at my club, 400 is long range 100 is not! If you can't hit a man sized target at 100 yards with a rifle then you had probably hang it up. I'm not sure where these people get this mis-information.
To put it bluntly 90%+ of the people in the nation who own a rifle are capable of making these types of shots. I guess that you people need to get out to the range more.
Now I'm with most of you, I think it is terror related the whole mess just stinks of terrorism but jeez people check your gun facts!