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In reply to the discussion: Obama to ban the ammo used in AR15's [View all]madokie
(51,076 posts)31. As a kid growing up back in the 50s
we used 22 rifles for squirrel hunting. If you used a 22 long rifle ammo many times the squirrel would die still in the tree but if you used a 22 short it would come tumbling down. The 22 long rifle is a lot faster and it would simply go through the squirrel and many times leave it on the limb it was on but a 22 short and its slow speed would knock them right out of the tree. So we used 22 shorts
We have no need for the projectile in question as best I can tell.
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Indeed, any rifle with even ordinary ammo will go through several walls and a kid or two.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
#50
From the reading by Remington arms it was developed for the M16 automatic rifle as a military round
glasshouses
Feb 2015
#36
There are already a few threads on this in the Gungeon. Please continue there when this gets locked.
Electric Monk
Feb 2015
#18
Obama should do everything in his power to stick it to these assholes day and night
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2015
#23
"It is only logical." Illogical and painfully simplistic to suggest that Obama can "ban" anything.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#27
As I heard it, gun lovers are all hot about some surplus ammunition that's about to hit the market.
hunter
Feb 2015
#28
Of course you forgot to say all the gun nuts will get pissy because he banned anything. nt
Logical
Feb 2015
#44
I think pistols that shoot .30 carbine ( M1 ammo) have been around for decades.
indie9197
Feb 2015
#48