The pistol the killer used was created as an afterthought, to give elite security guards a handgun that uses the same kevlar-defeating caliber.
I don't know what kind of ammo the killer used. The AP ammo is supposedly not available to civilians.
Posted on 11/06/2009 10:21:22 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
It was a round designed for a Personal Defense Weapon (PDW), which is more than a sidearm and less than a full rifle, for troops that couldn’t always carry an assault rifle.
Specifically, it was designed to replace pistol-caliber submachine guns as PDWs (like the MP-5K and such).
FN came out with the 5.7x28 round for both the FiveseveN pistol and the P90 PDW (sorta like a submachine gun). HK folowed up with a similar round for its MP-9 PDW.
The intent was to give greater penetration for the weapon (lighter, faster round with armor piercing rounds) because more and more troops and security were encountering body armor on the battlefield.
As soon as the FiveseveN pistol hit America, anti-gun sissies were crying about the new “assault pistol” with armor piercing capabilities. FN relented and restricted the good SS190 ammo and offered a lead-core round to the civvy market.
They landed about 15 miles from here.
Feed him pork to fill his colostomy bag then let the fun begin.
5.7 is nasty stuff. 2,000fps.
That’s exactly what it was called by the anti-gun sissies when FN started importing it to America.
Cop Killer
Armor Piercing
Assault Pistol
They keep making things up to fit the situation.
Apparently
Wow! Those are big rounds for a pistol.
The pistol the killer used was created as an afterthought, to give elite security guards a handgun that uses the same kevlar-defeating caliber.
I don't know what kind of ammo the killer used. The AP ammo is supposedly not available to civilians.
Yep.
I remember seeing the +10 extensions at the Fun Shows.
maybe I should get one.
Not really, not unless they hit the heart, spine or other vitals. The bullets are optimized for penetration. With bullets optimized for expansion or other exotic terminal effects (glaser safety slugs etc) we might have seen more killed and fewer wounded, with less pass-throughs and multiple hits by each slug.
While you can.
The anti’s have hated this pistol for years and you’ll prolly see a new law soon.
They can’t help themselves.
See 68 about the FN P-90.
Well with the Nancy pelosi style of interrogation some sort of drug would be in line to alleviate his pain.
However morphine is a two edged sword, doncha know.
Do they mean 5.7 MM instead of caliber? Or is it really less than a third the size of a .22?
Is "zib" a variant of "zub" (the word used in Morocco)?
Wow. Interesting. On a side note I have had to find a site on U.S State flags, so i know where all you folks on FR are from. Never to old to learn something new. :)
Good find man! FR Exclusive here.
Me too. My visceral reaction to want this guy dead is more than trumped by the absolute urgency of truth.
If the Beltway snipers had been killed instead of captured, the narrative would have been 100% "Army Vet Snaps Over Child Custody Battle." Too bad, so sad. If Richard Reed, the British shoe bomber, had died in a choke hold at the hands of a passenger, he'd have been just another nut job with no known motive, no known associations. Over and over, the scenario is repeated. The media spins, but the truth gets out, little by little, and more and more Americans find it impossible to swallow the ludicrous (and dangerous) PC pap. When the perps live to tell their tale, their own radical Islamic motivations came to light, in their own words.
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