Handguns vs. AR-15s

[Rigby5]

The facts are that over 30,000 people a years are killed by pistols in the US, while only about 100 a year are killed by any rifles, not just the AR.

 

[Rigby5]

The reality is the the .223 of the AR is about the weakest rifle bullet made. In fact, it is so weak that it is illegal to use on deer in most states, because the states want a quicker, cleaner, and more humane kill.

 

[Leo123]

Yeah, handguns are SO much less lethal.....Do you feel LUCKY?

 

[Couchpotato]

That is totally and completely wrong.
Lots of people got out of Vietnam by shooting themselves with an AR.
The high velocity is totally and completely irrelevant, because the bullet is such a tiny sliver, that it can not impart much energy at all. And it is energy that causes harm, NOT velocity.

The only time an AR is at all lethal, is after is has gone far enough to have slowed down, no longer has the same stabilizing spin, and then can easily TUMBLE after hitting someone.
It is these long range shot that do all the tissue damage.

The reality is that pistols are at least 4 times worse than AR wounds normally, because not only to average pistols have 4 times the area because they are bigger, but they often are hollow point, so that they expand into a huge saw blade that is over twice as wide as the original bullet.

ARs do not have expanding hollow point bullets.

The 5.56 rd has 3 times the kinetic energy a 9mm has.

 

[Couchpotato]

The reality is the the .223 of the AR is about the weakest rifle bullet made. In fact, it is so weak that it is illegal to use on deer in most states, because the states want a quicker, cleaner, and more humane kill.

Do you just make shit up? 38 states allow the use of the .223 for large game. Of the 12 remaining most don’t allow any modern centerfire cartridges so it’s not about the .223 in those states either.

 

[Couchpotato]

The facts are that over 30,000 people a years are killed by pistols in the US, while only about 100 a year are killed by any rifles, not just the AR.

That has little to do with the killing capacity of a long gun and everything thing to do with the number of people being shot with hand guns vs rifles.

 

[Couchpotato]

Yeah, handguns are SO much less lethal.....Do you feel LUCKY?

Hand guns are for sure less lethal than long guns. That’s just a fact. If they weren’t the military would issue rifles that shot handgun guns rounds to troops instead of rifle rounds.

 

[Leo123]

Hand guns are for sure less lethal than long guns. That’s just a fact. If they weren’t the military would issue rifles that shot handgun guns rounds to troops instead of rifle rounds.

True, rifles are better for long range accuracy and, depending on the gun, can shoot larger more powerful rounds. I posted that Dirty Harry video for fun!!

 

[Blues Man]

The facts are that over 30,000 people a years are killed by pistols in the US, while only about 100 a year are killed by any rifles, not just the AR.

Please don't lump suicides into murder statistics.

Suicide is not a crim it's a choice that everyone has the absolute right to make.