My appoligy but such things is common by us so we use to seeing guts and bodies pumped full of all kinds of ammo. I wonder how many people see what different kind of gunshots a body of a person. Especially a head shot and how the blood looks around the body. I have seen peoples knees ripped with a Assault rifle. My one friend was shot in his but with a Assault rifle and the force was so big that his knee popped out. Other friend had a skin graph on his arm from one round hitting his arm.
Assault rifles are designed these days to be used in urban areas. So that means unlike the old 7.62mm it needs to hit the human body then maul it inside rather than going through it and hit a innocent person.
Yikes! You are in South Africa? Zimbabwe? Have to disagree with the bolded as it's mostly false I think.
In urban combat you want something that can kill a guy on the other side of a concrete and mortar wall. Using a caliber that can only really take on obstructions at perpendicular angles limits your tactics and gives your adversary cover. Fuck that. What you need is the higher mass projectiles with *respectable velocities,
not the small high speed ones that were designed with wound creation in mind. What happens if
before your 55grains of American love can express itself to that Chechyan, it has to pass
through some glass, a bead curtain, maybe a piece of furniture? Intermediate rounds like the 5.56 have great terminal effects on unarmored targets, but penetration is lacking for urban combat as far as I am aware. Therein is the reason for the 6.8SPC, and why some folks said to hell with it let's just use 7.62x51 as it's already out in use. Sure there are penetrators in bullets, but they too are hampered by a lack of mass at some point.
The West has designed calibers with terminal effects primary, penetration secondary.
The East designs their calibers ( I guess the US-mimicked 5.45mm would be the exception) with penetration as the primary concern. I've heard some pros say this boils down to one thing: both sides count on the East as the one not spending a lot on body armor. Given China's vast number of possible troops and the fact that countries like the USA go with relatively small volunteer forces I guess it makes sense? The concept is the same no matter if it's flash suppressors or tanks so why not bullet designs?
Cool thread story though, it's a real life example of
satsujin no ken katsujin no ken.
I wish anti gun type could understand that what they perceive as weapons are really just tools. People are the weapons!
What I want to know is if the perps were more intimidated by the sight of a rifle than they would have been if the gun had been a .45 or shotgun, but then I guess if you are only packing a BB gun it really doesn't matter!
*One of the needs the 5.56 can't really live up to all that well is stopping a vehicle, aka, drilling it right through the block or wiping out the passengers entirely, decisively. Army and Marines can use a drop in kit on their M16A2s that allows them to fire a purposefully slow, heavy .50cal round that is far less likely to ricochet. Very effective.