Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[SofaKingHigh]

@KUSA.

Hornaday makes claims, sure...but 5.56 is not particularly known for it's ability to knock someone down- though it's better than most rifle rounds on that count, or for "liquifying" insides...that's a sensational interpretation of what 5.56 does...which is main, not knockdown or liquefying insides, maim.  5.56 is also not the most common AR chambering in use, because it's a terrible hunting round and a so-so target round...... and an ar is compromise between a target rifle and a hunting rifle.   

With that chambering, and a handload (nice, btw)..you aren't gonna -stop- anything that isn't wearing a vest...you wont even get the signature 5.56 maiming.  You're going to go through and through at B&E range in the dark (and probably the wall behind him unless it's made of cinderblocks).  I mean, sure...you're -really- gonna fuck the guy up, you might not knock him on his ass but he'll hit his knees regardless.  The exit wound would be tremendous.

That, to my mind, does not make for suitable home defense...admittedly, alot of it has to do with my house, my family.   Lot's of kids and drywall.

You know why NATO adopted the 5.56 round?  Because, in 8/10 cases, it won't kill.  The theory being that a soldier being hit by the round will take 1 or 2 of his friends out of the battlefield as they treat him, thus rendering the enemy force weakened by not one casualty, but by 2 or 3.

Literally months later, every soldier in NATO had to have their medical training re-done.......all soldiers being taught NOT to help a wounded comrade, but to fight through and leave them for the medics.

The stupidity of those at the top is genuinely astounding sometimes.