I've heard this too much...

[Triggernosis]

i heard that story in connection to mafia hit men.
i don't know if they really use 22s n if they do, i don't know why.

I have heard it theorized that hit-men sometimes use a standard velocity .22LR because of two things:
1) It will likely kill a man stone-dead if you shoot him in the head and,
2) Standard velocity .22's can be suppressed to almost no sound at all.

 

[Triggernosis]

Well, I can tell you from personal experience investigating homicides, two of them were done with .22's. One was a head shot which did in fact bounce around in the skull a bit, the other was a torso shot that bounced around and lacerated almost every vital organ. Bled out internally with very little external signs of blood or damage.

Your sig. line - "momicked" - yep, you must be a N.C. native. My mother's side of the family is full-bred hoi-toider, beginning on Portsmouth Island...I mean, Oiland.

 

[NYlakesider]

well, what does happen when you shoot someone in the head, thru the eye or someplace else the bone is thin?
does it bounce off the back of the skull, or not?
i heard that story in connection to mafia hit men.
i don't know if they really use 22s n if they do, i don't know why.
i do know this.
at 3', out of a 5 1/2'' barrel, a 22 will pass thru 2 2x4s n the heel is buried 1/4'' from the surface of the third.
22s have great penetration, because my 38 does exactly the same, but out of a 4'' barrel.

Well a .22 is easier to silence than a bigger round. Even without a can its still much quieter with the right ammo than a bigger round. Lots more .22 ammo is sold than other calibers making a investigation a bit harder. The Mafia has its accountants and like most bean counters they complain when bigger more expensive ammo is used!

 

[BigBoy99]

".22 bullets (LR) are the most deadly because they rattle around bouncing off bone and stuff that they do more damage."

This is becoming more rampant.

Probably being perpetuated by some unknowing gun "expert" - probably a media person who always have all of the information on firearms correct in there publications. Who cares if it is accurate or truthful, as long as it sells, go with it and if it gun related make sure it is even more sensational!

 

[TomkinsSP]

The .22 long rifle IS the most deadly round. Why? Because anyone who owns a gun probably has at least one. It is the ONLY gun some folks own. It turns up a LOT in police work.

 

[Hamster65]

I read a story many years ago about a man who was shot in the head with a 22. The bullet entered through the outer most edge of his eye socket, did a lap around the inside of his skull and and exited from almost the exact same spot on the other eye. With the help of surgery, he survived with minimal vision loss and zero brain damage.

I don't know if it's true or not but, it WAS in the local news paper.

 

[susieqz]

i'm happy to see some first hand accounts of the lethality of the 22lr.
like it or not, my 2x4 tests tell me a 22 will smash thru a rib cage n damage something important.
the constant barrage of allegations claiming that being hit by a 22 is no big deal are tiresome.

 

[Bajadoc]

Any bullet can do anything depending on the particular circumstances.

 

[trailmix]

I have seen a person shot with a .22 long rifle fired from a Remington 552 at a distance of approximately 20 feet. The bullet entered his torso but did not exit, eventually coming to rest in the liver. Made a tiny hole going in and a huge hole when they cut him open to remove the bullet (and part of his liver). That person was me.

 

[LostintheOzone]

I don't believe anything I read, only half of what I hear, and everything I see. I don't understand everything I see but I believe I've seen it, whatever it was.

 

[LostintheOzone]

i'm happy to see some first hand accounts of the lethality of the 22lr.
like it or not, my 2x4 tests tell me a 22 will smash thru a rib cage n damage something important.
the constant barrage of allegations claiming that being hit by a 22 is no big deal are tiresome.

Well, they do have that hyper velocity 1450 fps stuff now. That's going to make a mess no matter where it hits you.

 

[italiansport]

Wasn't all the damage that was done to President Reagan in the assassination attempt caused by a 22 Long Rifle?
Jim

 

[16thVACav]

That is correct - a Rohm RG-14 revolver.

 

[TomkinsSP]

I believe

... everything I see. I don't understand everything I see but I believe I've seen it, whatever it was.

I like this 10x

 

[NYlakesider]

That is correct - a Rohm RG-14 revolver.

And if I remember correctly it was some sort of explosive round.

How much explosive you could put in a .22 I do not know but it cannot be much or do much more than a none explosive round of the same weight!

 

[jtcarm]

Wasn't all the damage that was done to President Reagan in the assassination attempt caused by a 22 Long Rifle?
Jim

Yes indeed.

And it came very close to killing him.

I wouldn’t want to be shot with a .22 short even.

Let’s hope the bad guys read how lethal the .22 is and dump their bigger guns.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Wasn't all the damage that was done to President Reagan in the assassination attempt caused by a 22 Long Rifle?
Jim

Watch the video on you tube. There was a SS agent in that pack that was shot in the stomach with the same gun. He went down and didn't get up.

I think a lot of this depends on where you get hit and where the bullet goes after that.

Brady never did fully recover.

 

[shouldazagged]

Probably being perpetuated by some unknowing gun "expert" - probably a media person who always have all of the information on firearms correct in there publications. Who cares if it is accurate or truthful, as long as it sells, go with it and if it gun related make sure it is even more sensational!

You might want to go back and read post 17.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Wasn't all the damage that was done to President Reagan in the assassination attempt caused by a 22 Long Rifle?
Jim

Yeah, but it was also a Devastator exploding projectile, now banned. Big concern during surgery to remove a bullet in him was that it would explode during removal . . .

 

[Abbynormal]

well, what does happen when you shoot someone in the head, thru the eye or someplace else the bone is thin?
does it bounce off the back of the skull, or not?
i heard that story in connection to mafia hit men.
i don't know if they really use 22s n if they do, i don't know why.
i do know this.
at 3', out of a 5 1/2'' barrel, a 22 will pass thru 2 2x4s n the heel is buried 1/4'' from the surface of the third.
22s have great penetration, because my 38 does exactly the same, but out of a 4'' barrel.

The Mob did use .22's often. That's what they used on Sam Giancana with a homemade can on it.

The Israeli Mossad also used Walther PPK 22's to take out the Black September Group responsible
for the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre!