Assault Weapons

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

It is actually not designed that way, and that only happens at short range. The military didn't fully understand it till 1986 either, since it is not by design. Longer ranges, and it will only wound. Up close it kills, partially due to cavity and fragmentation. This fragmentation actually makes it safer to use indoors since the fragmenting round has little wall penetration. Where a .45 might go through a couple of your neighbors houses, a fragmenting 5.56, both 55 gr and 62 gr, seems to stop short quickly! So there is much less chance of hurting someone else not involved while in defense of ones self.

Of course if you are the news media, they will overexagerate the fact that it is a high power rifle so it must go through tanks or something (sarcasm).

-S

Thats true for the old 5.56 round and the old barrel rifling twist. The current rounds are heavyer and the rifling twist is different. And .45 is a really poor penetrator tbh. Anyway the 5.56 will go through several sheets of drywall while tumbling without disintegrating, but yes, it is generaly safer for indeoor use, though for indoor use special frangible amunition is advised.
Though im not 100% sure of the 5.56 design, havent done all that much research on it, just some casual browsing over the years.

The WosMan, yeah the media tends to exagerate things a lot, but this thread isnt really about fully automatic rifles, just rifles which look like their military use counterparts.