Posted on 06/23/2017 9:18:09 AM PDT by rktman
People are increasingly buying more lethal guns, and arming themselves for purposes of protection rather than for hunting or recreation, new research shows.
In a study of gun manufacturing and sales from 1990 to 2015, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers shows that the production of larger-caliber handguns skyrocketed in this time period. The paper found that since 1994, the manufacture of .38-caliber guns rose 12-fold, with nearly 820,000 of the pistols produced in 2015. The manufacture of 9 mm guns also increased seven-fold in this 15-year stretch, while those larger than 9 mm jumped 150 percent
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All the occupants on one side of a small bus.
It’s fake click news bait.....
It’s fake click news bait propaganda.
FCNBP
Actually they are the same size. You can shoot 22s in the same barrel with an adapter.
“Is this fake news or click bait or both?”
It is a pearl clutching Mary writing about something neither he, nor his editor or publisher, know anything about.
The AR15 (5.56x45) and FN (5.7x28mm) are two other small rounds which do a lot of damage, instead of passing cleanly thru, as many larger calibers do. The small ones tend to tumble, and bounce off of bones, leaving a real mess for surgeons to repair, if they can.
More deadly...
Hmm, I guess folks will soon be even deader than they would have been had they been shot with a normal gun that could kill.
Yes, this is a hoot. Sometimes it’s fun to run with it and mimic the supposed logic.
“People Buy Deadlier Weapons to Protect Themselves”
I can confirm that. Grandma lost her squirrel gun in a boating accident and replaced it with a Polish AK. Now the squirrels don’t stand a chance. Plus, grandma is looking at buying a Mossberg 500 Tactical Tri-Rail 3 12-gauge pump shotgun to get rid of the mice.
The bullet diameter is actually exactly the same as a .223.
There is a long history of how cartridges came to be named, but all .22x cartridges once started out as a 5.5 mm hole drilled in a barrel. In the original scheme of things, the grooves were then cut into the barrel, so a slightly larger bullet was required to completely seal the barrel.
These days there are many methods of producing a rifled barrel, some of which do not cut any grooves at all. But, the cartridge names and bullet sizes are still usually based on the original ways of doing things.
People wouldn’t be so paranoid if Democrats didn’t push hate 24/7.
No it’s not, it’s an order of magnitude larger, .223 vs .22, see there’s 3 digits in the .223 as opposed to the 2 in .22... /libtardian maths
I think that was a mistake. With speed loaders you can reload pretty quickly, and 10 round magazines just encourage "spray and pray".
I hadn’t own a gun since I had a shotgun in the 80’s. In the last two months I purchased a .45 and 9mm and got my License To Carry permit. Now I’m looking to get a 308. Got the .45 because it’s “more deadlier.”
Mororcycles are far deadlier, but doctors will not ask you if uou have one.
RE .223 vs .22 LR...
I learn something new at FR everyday.
.223 Remington is .224 inches in diameter.
.22 LR is .223 inches in diameter, but can be found up to .225.
.22 Hornet is .224 inches, except for the old Hornet, which was .223
.22 WMR is .224
In close quarters, a knife is far deadlier than a firearm.
Statistically, everyone is dead. I can prove it.
A.C. Clarke wrote that to the effect that there is a 30:1 dead humans to live humans ratio. That is to say, for every live human, 30 have died in the past.
Thirty people 100% dead and one person allegedly 100% alive.
Averages out to all of them being 97% dead.
See how easy that was?
And don’t tell me I’m “wrong”. “Wrongness” is a heteronormative patriarchal racist nazi construct designed to belittle the equally valid thought processes of those you wish to otherize.
Did Homer Simpson go into a gun store and ask for their most “dangerous gun”?
The machinist in me is thinking in terms of tolerances. In my job, most dimensions have a tolerance of .015. So using .223 as the baseline, t would be OK for the bullets to be anywhere from .208 to .238.
I don’t suppose that would work so well in ammunition :)
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