I think a good question is, should guns with a high fire rate be allowed?
A handgun with a high capacity cartridge and the ability to fire many rounds a minute somewhat raises the question of what a max bullet rate should be.
An AK47 can fire roughly 600 rounds/min == 10 rounds/sec.
In the days of the founding fathers, the best rifle technology never eclipsed the rate of 1 round/30 seconds.
From their perspective, the most dangerous weapon of the times was limited in bullets, making it deadly but with the caveat of being able to realistically get out of line of sight once a round is fired.
Now, we have semi-automatics that are limited at the speed of twitching triggers (human hands can trigger an index finger muscle contraction at an average max rate of 10 contractions/second) with more ammo than ever before.
As Rhythm poignantly wrote, it would take him running out of ammunition before he could be taken on a fortified position, of which he'd have hundreds to thousands of rounds to consume.
So I ask, how good should consumer weapons technology be?
We clearly limit automatic weapons.
A handgun with a high capacity cartridge and the ability to fire many rounds a minute somewhat raises the question of what a max bullet rate should be.
An AK47 can fire roughly 600 rounds/min == 10 rounds/sec.
In the days of the founding fathers, the best rifle technology never eclipsed the rate of 1 round/30 seconds.
From their perspective, the most dangerous weapon of the times was limited in bullets, making it deadly but with the caveat of being able to realistically get out of line of sight once a round is fired.
Now, we have semi-automatics that are limited at the speed of twitching triggers (human hands can trigger an index finger muscle contraction at an average max rate of 10 contractions/second) with more ammo than ever before.
As Rhythm poignantly wrote, it would take him running out of ammunition before he could be taken on a fortified position, of which he'd have hundreds to thousands of rounds to consume.
So I ask, how good should consumer weapons technology be?
We clearly limit automatic weapons.
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