02-24-2017, 07:03 PM
(02-24-2017, 06:10 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Honestly, even with said training you don't know how someone is going to react until they're in that kind of situation. Of course, training is always better than no training. As to your last point, I would tend to agree, but even AR owners without that type of background tend to take firearms ownership more seriously than the gun owners who don't own one. As I've said before, you should be more concerned by the gun owner who owns one, or two, guns than the one who owns over twenty. The odds are excellent that the twenty gun owner knows his stuff and respects the weapons far more than the other.
While it seems reasonable, in some cases, what you're essentially doing is putting a tax on a person's ability to exercise their constitutional rights, which is, of course, unconstitutional.
Respectfully, no it's not. No one would prefer to be shot by a center fire rifle round over a handgun round. Maybe if you went to the extreme ends of the spectrum, .500 S&W vs. .224 varmint, but you get the idea. As for penetration without tumbling, that could happen with a high velocity ball round, but if you're using ball ammo for home defense then you're doing a lot wrong.
1) Does a sales tax on firearms tax a person's ability to exercise their constitutional right?
2) What someone prefers to be shot by and claiming the one stop incapacitating power of an AR is indisputable are different arguments. The one stop incapacitating power of the M16/M4/CAR15/AR15 platform has been a topic of dispute since it was first introduced in Vietnam and has dogged it up to and including Iraq and Afghanistan.
3) Copper jacketed ball ammo is meant to fragment after tumbling inside the body to create more wound tracts, increased permanent and temporary cavitation, and transmit the maximum amount of kinetic energy from the bullet to the wound to increase tissue destruction and prevent a through and through wound. If it works like it is designed, the bullet should rip itself apart due to high muzzle velocity creating the type of one stop capacity you describe. (The wounds should be worse than a AK 7.62 round. Should be.) The muzzle velocity is supposed to make the smaller round more lethal, but it can also cause through and through wounds because the bullet never tumbles and fragments, and much of the kinetic energy carries the bullet through the body instead of being transmitted into the target. The problem is a double edged sword so to speak.
