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  • Hunting rifles--the next 'sniper weapons'

    02/22/2009 12:43:22 AM PST · by marktwain · 69 replies · 4,399+ views
    St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 20 February, 2009 | Kurt Hofmann
    I wrote recently about the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's desire to ban .50 caliber rifles. In that piece, I pointed out that if such a ban were ever implemented, the gun prohibitionists would soon discover that a sniper limited to a .499 caliber rifle would not be seriously hampered by the loss of 1/1000th of an inch of bullet diameter, leading, no doubt, to calls for the banning of that caliber as well. Of course, a .498 caliber rifle would not really be noticeably less capable . . . etc. The disarmament lobby considers it bad form for gun rights...