Nothing wrong w/the .22, I saw more people killed with this round during my LEO days than anything else. The real consideration is that it’s not a good fight stopper when other options are readily available. That said I’ve carried a .22 now and then when I could not conceal anything else, and before the sub compact .380s were available.
I've heard this too much...
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I assume by "This" you mean the number of morons in the world...
A 22lr will killlllll!!
40 grs is 2.59 grams or one graham cracker
Now if you call it a 223 or a 5.56 then it's still a wimpy round
Just going faster
Everyone knows that only a bullet that is at least a 30 or 40 will do anything.
This is a dumb as a bear thread
Is the 22lr a lead round nose, hollow point or what.
Here stand 10 yards away and hold my target, see how you feel later.
40 grs is 2.59 grams or one graham cracker
Now if you call it a 223 or a 5.56 then it's still a wimpy round
Just going faster
Everyone knows that only a bullet that is at least a 30 or 40 will do anything.
This is a dumb as a bear thread
Is the 22lr a lead round nose, hollow point or what.
Here stand 10 yards away and hold my target, see how you feel later.
Bill Jordan said, with the exception of those killed in wars, there are more
people killed with .22 than any other caliber.
people killed with .22 than any other caliber.
The .22 is light, easily deformed, and erratic in tissue. The reason I believe it got the reputation it has, is that the bullets have a tendency to change directing once it hits tissue,or bone. Emergency room doctors may expect to find the bullet in one place, but it's somewhere else. The round itself isn't deadlier than any other caliber, they just happen to be so plentiful. Also since almost everyone's shot a .22 sometime in their lifetime, they start thinking it's not as dangerous as other calibers, and don't give it the respect it deserves.
SC_Mike
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".22 bullets (LR) are the most deadly because they rattle around bouncing off bone and stuff that they do more damage."
Not sure where you got that quote but when people refer to parts of the body as, "bone and stuff" you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Not sure where you got that quote but when people refer to parts of the body as, "bone and stuff" you have to take it with a grain of salt.
DWalt
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"The Israeli Mossad also used Walther PPK 22's to take out the Black September Group responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre!"
Quite a few of the Black Septemberists involved in the Munich Massacre were later taken out with Mossad bombs. The Mossad hit teams usually had two assassins with .22 pistols (I had heard that they were usually Berettas, but I suppose they could have been anything). The two Mossad shooters usually got got in close and emptied their guns into the target.
Quite a few of the Black Septemberists involved in the Munich Massacre were later taken out with Mossad bombs. The Mossad hit teams usually had two assassins with .22 pistols (I had heard that they were usually Berettas, but I suppose they could have been anything). The two Mossad shooters usually got got in close and emptied their guns into the target.
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