Assault Weapons

antikristuseke · 10-22-07, 04:14 PM

To be honest, this assault weapon ban has allways puzzled me and come off as nonsensical and hypocritical. While I understand a lot tighter regulations being imposed on fully automatic firearms, why should semi automatic rifles which use military calibres be subject to tighter regulations if other high powered rifles arent. Anyway as SUBMAN1 pointed out these types of rifles are rarely used in violent crime, im guessing mostly because they are difficult to conceal and impractical.

BTW Subman the 5.56 being designed to wound seems to be a myth, the currently in use 5.56 fmj rounds are designed to tuble after 4 inches of soft tissue and to fragment to contaminate the wound if the shot isnt leathal. Though .223 are indeed banned for deer hunting because deforming soft points simply dont have ennough energy to achive suficent penetration to reliably reach vital organs.

10-22-07, 04:14 PM	#2
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	To be honest, this assault weapon ban has allways puzzled me and come off as nonsensical and hypocritical. While I understand a lot tighter regulations being imposed on fully automatic firearms, why should semi automatic rifles which use military calibres be subject to tighter regulations if other high powered rifles arent. Anyway as SUBMAN1 pointed out these types of rifles are rarely used in violent crime, im guessing mostly because they are difficult to conceal and impractical. BTW Subman the 5.56 being designed to wound seems to be a myth, the currently in use 5.56 fmj rounds are designed to tuble after 4 inches of soft tissue and to fragment to contaminate the wound if the shot isnt leathal. Though .223 are indeed banned for deer hunting because deforming soft points simply dont have ennough energy to achive suficent penetration to reliably reach vital organs.