The explosive force of AR-15 style rifles

[YoshidaYui]

[AndyS]

1. Please, everyone watch this.

And while you watch it know that the pentagon has adopted a new standard rifle. The bullet is four times larger than the 5.56 NATO round fired by the AR. It still has the same velocity as the AR. The military won't get it for a few years but it will be available in a civilian version later this year TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. The initial price will be $$ thousands but when production is standardized expect the price to come down to AR levels.

If the AR damage to flesh is bad this new weapon will be unimaginable.

[Turbineguy]

2. Looks like a great hunting rifle

if you like your game blown to smithereens.

[genxlib]

3. This is a behind-the-scene view to the primary broadcast story that they did

Both are worth the look.

The main story at this link

[Rural_Progressive]

4. And there they go again giving the gun rights people the ability to blow off an important report

It is not an AR-15 bullet, it is a .223 round. Really doesn't matter what brand of rifle it is shot out of, the physics pretty much stay the same. Small mass bullet propelled by a very large amount of explosive powder relative to the size of the bullet. Small bullet moving at a high velocity hits anything hard and bounces, and bounces, and bounces. My wife spent almost 40 years working at a level one trauma center and the horror stories she heard from surgeons who had served in the military are ghastly. That round was purposely designed to do the most damage possible to what it strikes. Not a round that should be available to anyone much less the general public.

Take home message, it's not the weapon that fires the round that does the damage, its the .223 round that does the damage regardless of what weapon is used to fire it.

[magicguido]

5. Right Wingers: "More employment for the Funeral Industry"

[patphil]

6. The AR-15 is a wound weapon that causes massive bleeding.

That's why it was so horrible for the police at the Robb school shooting to just stand around and do nothing for so long. It is likely that some of those kids would have survived if the police confronted the shooter immediately.
This is the reason why this gun is such a hideous weapon. It's designed to kill by inflicting massive wounds that cause extreme loss of blood in a very short time.

Allowing this gun to be sold to virtually anyone over 18 with no controls is, in itself, a criminal act.