The media really wants the government to take away your guns, but they have zero idea how those guns actually work.
Here's yet another example:
My goodness, that sounds scary, doesn't it??
A gun company is marketing an assault rifle that can shoot through bulletproof vests to civilians, a report says, amid ongoing debates about gun control following a string of deadly mass shootings.
SIG Sauer's MCX-SPEAR is the civilian equivalent of the US Army's NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle), specifically created to tear through body armor, The Daily Beast reported.
"It'll shoot through almost all of the bulletproof vests worn by law enforcement in the county right now," Ryan Busse, a former firearms company executive now a senior policy analyst with the Giffords Law Center, told the outlet.
Here's the totally sane article from the activists over at The Daily Beast:
The gun company that made the AR-15-style rifle used to kill 49 people at an Orlando nightclub in 2016 and another four at an Indiana mall this month is now gearing up to mass-produce an even more lethal weapon of war for the civilian market.
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It's clear what the media is trying to do here, especially as Congress debates gun control.
They want you even more afraid of the super scary weapons that are out there. The only solution is to ban them and give all the guns to the government for our own good. Then you and your kids will be safe forever!
Here's the actual scoop.
Sig Sauer was awarded the Pentagon contract to replace the everyday combat rifle used by the average soldier. Decades ago, it was the M14, a gun that doesn't look as scary to the uneducated.
During the Vietnam War, the M16 was adopted because it had larger magazine capacity, was lighter and more maneuverable, and had less recoil.
The M16 was made by Colt, but the rights to the design were purchased from the company ArmaLight, which had created the ArmaLite Rifle 10 and 15 models for the next generation of weapons.
This platform changed guns from the WWII era to the modern era of weaponry, which is why the ArmaLite AR-15 is the basis for the design of hundreds of different rifles today.
The M16 was used for decades, but in the 2010s, was replaced by the U.S. military with the M4 carbine, a shortened version of the M16. This is why all the scary AR-15s civilians can buy look so dang scary.
But the M4 itself was created as a sub-variant of the M16, so the military is looking for something newer – something that can define gun battles over the coming decades.
Enter Sig Sauer's new MCX-SPEAR.
The gun is pretty sweet - piston fired and very high velocity at distance, which means it can beat armor at range. This is why the media calls it "twice as powerful."
Basically you have a gun that's really slick and can keep up the velocity of a bullet farther. It can also be switched to belt feed, replacing the need for the SAW machine gun. This is super useful when you're a SEAL trying to clap an armored baddie 600 yards away on the top of a mountain or suppress a group of baddies advancing on you, but you don't have access to a Barrett .50 cal.
But when it comes to fighting in a city, the system has major drawbacks. It's heavier and bulkier than the M4 and plenty of cheaper civilian guns can defeat armor at closer ranges.
(Not to mention, higher velocity doesn't necessarily mean more deadly since most of the force of bullets goes "through" a person, so lower velocity rounds can actually be more lethal #SCIENCE.)
The SPEAR has greater recoil – the higher pressure makes it so you basically have to run a suppressor with it to control gas blowback as those little rockets blast off.
The higher pressure makes the barrel run super hot, meaning it will need to be replaced sooner.
So to sum up: You have a specialized blaster that's good at defeating enemies at range, but it's bulky, the proprietary ammo is super expensive (and heavy – twice as heavy as 5.56 rounds), and the civilian variant starts around $7,000.
This is what they're trying to scare you about.
Newsflash: Every caliber has different velocities and kinetic energy, and every brand of bullet in every caliber has different velocities and kinetic energy, and every gun model shoots those rounds with different velocities and kinetic energy!
(And don't even get me started on the hype around subsonic rounds!)
So if Sig's new gun is "twice as powerful as an AR-15," I guess that makes my grandpappy's .30-06 Nazi tranquilizer the friggin' Death Star!!
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