for those of you who don't get it, "7.62" could refer to at least 3 extremely common cartridges: -7.62x39, the AK-47's cartridge -7.62x51, aka .308 (YES I KNOW THERES SOME TECHNICAL DIFFERENCES), used in the US M14 and several other guns -7.62x63, aka the .30-06, the most common hunring rifle round
And 7.62x25!
the 30-06, which was invented in 1906.
No one tell them what cal a 20 gauge is. Or that 12 gauge is bigger not smaller. And that they come in “rifled”.
but apparently i'm the bad guy for saying people need to know what things are when proposing laws on them bsky.app/profile/sky....
Guns are loud. You should be civily liable for hearing damages if you fire one in an enclosed space with other people. Now that's a law that would really piss the gun fuckers off but what can they say about it.
Any caliber policy is especially ass because you’re basically talking about banning hunting
Ban everything other than muzzle-loading round shot. If you can't bag a deer with a musket at 50 paces, skill issue.
They're gonna take my gpa's Arisaka (with carnation) war trophy from me cuz boolet too lorge.
I don't even think they make bullets for the Arisaka anymore.
I feel like the reasonable thing to regulate would be the total energy of the round maybe?
He’s now saying this is about banning rifles, but he didn’t mention that before. I’m not sure this guy understands how many calibers exist for rifles, or what 5.56 tumbling does to a body.
There are some ballistic wound studies the US Army has performed that point to both 7.62 NATO and 7.62x39 are less lethal on unarmored targets than 5.56 NATO and a number of other smaller calibers due to overpenetration and lack of yaw.
If I remember correctly the initial M16 enhanced lethality claims vs the M14 were due to Colt not having machine tolerances for making the barrel 1:12 but just lied and made it 1:16 causing the bullets to hit targets frigging sideways
Dawg, I just want a surplus M1 Garand to shoot downrange and miss ever shot. That should be legal, this is murica.
I wonder which people think kills the most people... From this lineup, those that are or are equivalent to in-use military cartridges are the 223 and the 308 (which replaced the 30-06).
From the calibers shown in that image, almost certainly .22LR. In the US generally, 9x19. Intermediate rifle cartridges are all in the low single-digit percentages.
Thank you for explaining this to those of us who don't get it 😏
i'm actually simplifying a bit, there's a LOT of very common cartridges that are 7.62mm in diameter (hence "At least 3"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62_mm...
And that includes pistol cartridges, not just rifles!
I'm wondering if he feels it's such a big number of must be extra-dangerous
Oh it’s 100% that. “The 5.56 is bad so the 7.62 must be extra bad!”