>>Did he also demonstrate its 5k+ price tag? Did they reference ANY crime that’s been committed with a .50?<<
“Tellingly, the Legislature points to no instance of this class of firearms being used by even a single criminal in New Jersey,” Christie said.
California has a complete ban on .50-caliber rifles, Connecticut bans specific models and Maryland has some restrictions.
Earlier Friday, gun control advocate Bryan Miller took a disabled .50-caliber sniper rifle to the Statehouse to demonstrate its destructive capacity.
“These are military weapons designed and manufactured to destroy material targets such as chemical plants, refineries, chemical and rail tanks and passenger aircraft, targets that abound in New Jersey,” he said. “A potential attack with a .50-caliber weapon could have a catastrophic environmental impact in the Garden State.”
My understanding is California has a ban on .50 BMG, but the .510 DTC Europ with the same bullet and powder capacity is permitted.
In other words, if you have 5000$ to spend on a rifle, and another 7$ to spend on each round, you can still do nearly everything that the .50 BMG rifle can do.
I will have to check my local gun store.
Standard .30/06 ammunition in heavier weights (say 174 grain as used on WWI) will travel more than 2 miles. US converted to 150 grain rounds before WWII because the rounds would overfly the range limits on most machine gun ranges. They had attempted to convert to the shorter range lighter weight version before, but too many officers with experience in long range machine gun fire in WWI objected.
Liberal logic a work.....never ceases to amaze me.