“Shoots a 5.56 round at 3000 feet per second. When it hits human flesh, it’s devastating.”
A 300 WIN Mag and a 308 WIN both can travel at or near this speed and yes they are devastating as well fired from a bolt action and not a scary black rifle with an assault sling on it.
Are we to ban firearms based on speed of the round now?
Pretty soon we are going to be chunking hi precision bullets with sling shots.
As far as high velocity .22 rounds go the 22-250 has been around at least 60 years.
First as a wildcat cartridge and then as the 22-250 Remington. It puts a 55gr. bullet out at 3650 fps and does tremendous damage as a varmint round, hate to think what it would do to a human.
There are other 22 cal center fires that are comparable or faster than the 5.56 round.