Critical Benghazi Question: ‘What Caliber Ammo?’

Conservative Report ^ | January 22, 2013 | Chip Jones

[george76]

Fast and Furious

[Biff55]

And do you mean 7.62x39 or 7.62.51? The former is “easy”, if it’s the latter, then that opens up a can o’ worms on the platform.

[tet68]

What killed the ambassador?
Bullets? Smoke inhalation? Beating?

[eyeamok]

Politics

[rarestia]

7.62x51 is .308 caliber. Why would that open a can of worms?

[Iron Munro]

What killed the ambassador? Bullets? Smoke inhalation? Beating?

He was "Vince Fostered" by muslim surrogates.

[TexasRedeye]

7.62x51 is .308 caliber. Why would that open a can of worms?

M14 or M60!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

.556 or 7.62x51 are both NATO. Since the answer is

.556 no question.

[yawningotter]

Unless, of course, we are arming the militants with AK type rifles, because they are readily available in the Middle East.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“.556 no question.”

Think they can distinguish between wounds caused by 5.56 and 5.45x39?

[originalbuckeye]

And Hillary! is being combative. The best defense is an offense. And there is no one more successful than Hillary! at being wildly offensive.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Could be AK-74 rounds (5.45mm)

[Perdogg]

The Winchester 308 is different from the M43.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

There may have been one or two shell casings left on the ground.

[TweetEBird007]

7.62 NATO max 2.75
.308 Win max 2.80
Length

[LucyT]

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Any questions yet from Vince Foster?

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[Brooklyn Attitude]

“There may have been one or two shell casings left on the ground.”

That would be the smart way to do it but it sounds like they are looking at recovering bullets from the wounds.

“The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?”

[Texas Fossil]

It is talked about that Woods and the other X-Marine (there is no such things as X-Marines) were plying their trade with 50BMG when the mortar rounds took them out.

Remember that this was not an embassy nor a consulate, but a mission (that happened to have an annex for gun running). That annex was where the weapons were stored.

RUBO! And your lying Der Hilderbeast.

[Myrddin]

Caliber and weight are telling. The 5.56 will be .223 caliber in weight from 55 gr to 69 gr (typically). AK-74 ammo is .214 caliber weighing 60 gr. The AK-47 rounds will be .311 caliber weighing 123 gr (typically). Rounds from an M14 would be .308 caliber in a weight range from 150 gr to 180 gr. A .308 caliber from weighing 174 to 181 gr might also come from a 7.62x54R Russian rifle. Rifling patterns (land, groove, twist rate, twist direction) are often unique to a particular manufacturer. Button, cut and forged yield different patterns as means of rifling the barrel.