06-16-2023, 05:59 PM
(06-16-2023, 05:41 PM)Nately120 Wrote: So what do you call the difference between a hand gun and ar 15? Even as a non gun guy i feel like one can do more damage than the other.
It depends on the handgun, and I could literally go on for hours. It can all be explained by E=mc2. The bigger the bullet, the faster it travels the more energy it's going to dump into a body when it hits. A fast handgun velocity for a 9mm bullet is 1200 fps, the bullet weighing 125 grains, or .29 ounces. A normal velocity for a standard AR15, or .223 Remington, round is 3200 fps for a bullet weighing 69 grains, or .16 ounces. Again, that's a standard muzzle velocity versus a very high 9mm muzzle velocity. So the long gun round is traveling over 2.5 times the speed of a handgun round, hence it has far more energy to impart to whatever it hits.