It’s going to push the civilian market to 6.8 as well, which would be fucking terrible because the benefits are shooting thru stuff. So a mass shooter with 6.8 is even worse than one with 5.56.
A “benefit” though could be that you’ll have less dead people from shootings with these and more injured. The round is substantial, but it penetrates more than anything. The reason the 5.56 is so lethal isn’t because of penetration, it’s because it tumbles when it hits human bodies and becomes a much more dangerous object compared to rounds from a handgun that fire clean through. It’s horrible to have to have a conversation about it, but I haven’t seen much testing from the 6.8mm or even much on the slight smaller creedmore on that aspect of it (tumbling).
Moving away from 5.56 is a pretty big deal.
It’s going to push the civilian market to 6.8 as well, which would be fucking terrible because the benefits are shooting thru stuff. So a mass shooter with 6.8 is even worse than one with 5.56.
It’s going to be decades before that happens, and by then the Boston Dynamics Murderbot 3000s will have replaced troops anyways
They might even replace mass shooters
I’m gonna project prodigious power across the globe
Damn, Foucault got hands
A “benefit” though could be that you’ll have less dead people from shootings with these and more injured. The round is substantial, but it penetrates more than anything. The reason the 5.56 is so lethal isn’t because of penetration, it’s because it tumbles when it hits human bodies and becomes a much more dangerous object compared to rounds from a handgun that fire clean through. It’s horrible to have to have a conversation about it, but I haven’t seen much testing from the 6.8mm or even much on the slight smaller creedmore on that aspect of it (tumbling).