Ironically the plasterboard so popular in american houses tends to cause a .223 ball to tumble and lose its velocity after a richochet far more than a 9mm so if not for the sheer size the AR15 would indeed be a suitable home defence weapon (straight on of course it will punch its way straight through, but so would a 9mm). The .223 certainly wouldnt be overpowered in that application anyway. But yeah, americans can't have M4's or M16's. But as it is both are just a select fire AR15. Entire AR15 platform is highly modular. Only difference between the M4 and M16 is barrel length, handguard and stock, all of which are interchangeable parts (you could run a 20" barrel with the M4's collapsible stock or the 16" barrel and accompanying hand guard with the fixed length buttstock of an M16). Even us brits can get an AR15. But we cannot have a semi automatic rifle unless it is a rimfire with a bore of .22 or less. So we can get .22lr AR15s, or there are companies over here which manufacture AR15 upper recievers with no provision for any gas system and enlarged charging handles or sometimes with side mounted charging handles. It effectively makes them a straight pull bolt action rifle, and they are very expensive, usually approaching £2000 or more, but because of the effort these companies go to in order to assemble them for the UK market they are usually high end rifles not some random cheap shit which accounts for the price, they're usually tacticool'ed aswell which I don't like. I've only shot a .22 air rifle and a .410 2.5" break action shotgun, rather neat one, 16" barrel, barrels folded down a full 90 degrees and then there was a button under the stock which released the plate the barrels hinge from and allowed them to rotate around to lie flat against the bottom of the stock. Apparently it was an old gun and custom built for a guy who eventually got arrested for poaching... Can certainly see if being a decent little pack gun if not for the low powered cartridge. I have handled an AK modded for UK markets, chambered in 5.45x39, multiple break action shotguns in .410, multiple bolt action rifles in assorted calibers and 2 different 12 gauge pump actions, did not get to shoot any of them (certainly not in a house anyway ). Some of those were at a mates house, there was 1 firearm he wanted to show me which he could not because it is kept in its own locked case within the main firearms safe and his dad keeps the key to it, .45-70 single action revolver with a 16" barrel and forearm support (pretty much closest we can get to a handgun in the UK is a long barrel single action revolver with a stock extension).
Funny you say that.. today for my birthday I'm going out and playing paintball with a ton of friends.
The only time an AR15 would be suitable for home defense is if it had a bull pup conversion on it. At that point it would be much more suitable for close quarters combat. The only gun use for home defense is my dad's .357 magnum. He keeps it loaded with fmj hollow point magnum heavy loads in a quick access safe next to his bed stand. Otherwise all of our guns are in a safe in the basement.
FMJ'ed hollow points, well that sounds a little pointless. Hollow point = spread on impact for maximum wounding rather than penetrating, jacket = increase penetration without the bullet deforming as much. Not sure what the benefit of mixing the 2 would be Personally I wouldnt take a bullpup converted AR15, I'd just get a bloody bullpup in the first place
So, at a tag sale today I got a WD My Book Pro II which is an external drive enclosure with 2 500GB drives in RAID and what I want to do is swap these 2 drives with the single 500GB that's in my PC right now and run the 2 drives in RAID 0 for more space and performance. (Don't yell at me about the chances of failure.) But, I want to do it without losing any of my files so is there a way I can basically copy my drive onto the two drives? Link to the model of the drives in the enclosure: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136178 (500GB 7200RPM. Same specs as the Barracuda in my PC now.)
The FMJ's hollowpoints spread like a hollow point but have the higher mass of an FMJ to create that higher momentum impact I guess. It will shred through flesh or knock someone flat on their ass if they were wearing kevlar. What I want is a slide fire Saiga 12. Perfectly legal too. - - - Updated - - - btw I took first place again.
Then I have no idea what they do. lol They are just hollow points with a FMJ. So whatever the FMJ does, it beats me.
I seem to have found system stability be not doing any CPU computing when the card and iGPU are active. PSU poops out on the CPU when both GPUs are at work :< only getting 75k ppd for some reason..
So I was convinced by somebody to make a twitter. She said it'd be good for me but I really don't know what I am doing on it. Anybody got any tips that possibly uses tweeter twatter ?
Follow jaden smith and Taco Bell. Silly Jill spelling it favourite. Everyone knows it's favorite. EDIT: I guess I'm following you now.
I'll follow Taco Bell because I've read some of their PR stuff, I don't know about jaden smith.. Also, she's 100% correct EH. We don't speak american up here. Have a healthy dose of Canuck why dontcha; (imported from here)
I didn't know I had a visible twitter. I created it to follow my band tweets and I guess it exists now. (And now you guys know my school. .-.) I can't seem to log into it. Woooow, I'm pro. Going to see godzilla in the meantime.
I just pulled these bad boys out of my cousins computer to put in my 7770 for him. These things are toasters.
Hollow Point is also good for home defense, because they won't go through walls. Maybe the FMJ takes out a bit more of the wall, but if you hit your target, it'll hurt that much more.
Ugh. I'm still trying to make the RAID setup work. I got the RAID drivers installed and working but Windows says it can't read the drives and it needs to be formatted.. (I used DriveImage XL to image my drive to the two other drives yesterday.) Also, I live in CT and we don't lock our doors except at night. (Partially because we're not worried about break ins when we're not home and partially because we don't know where the keys to the lock are.)
