Do you have any examples of where this has happened in a self defense shooting? I've never heard of one.
Do some research on that gun, it caught my eye for its small size and decent price. However reading up on it, there are numerous cases of a failure of some sort on the sldie after 500+ rounds have been shot through it. I started to get it anyway since the purpose I would use it for would never see that many rounds but something about buying a gun you knwo will fail didnt seem to smart to me.
Why? More extreme than a 12 gauge shotgun?!!!
You're kidding, once again. . . . . . . right?
Not to mention, I highly doubt an intruder is going to be wearing body armor on a regular B&E.
no, the m60 is the ideal home defense rifle. unless of course, you can handle a handheld minigun.
good thing the ar 15s 223 round isnt more powerful than a 22lr //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
Q. Don't I have to worry about FMJ rounds going through walls and hurting my family or others? You always have to worry about it, of course, but even FMJ 5.56 rounds will have less wound potential after penetrating a wall than even 9mm handgun rounds. Generally after passing through an interior wall or two, 5.56 bullets will have lost enough velocity that resulting wound damage would be greatly diminished. It should be noted, however, that all of the above bullets are still potentially deadly to those on the other side of a wall, so plan accordingly. Interior walls are concealment, NOT cover.
Fact: Evidence increasingly shows that 5.56 FMJ rounds like M193 and M855 are not the over-penetration risk they have often been though of as. In interior wall tests, 5.56 rounds have less wounding potential after wall strikes than any common 9mm or above handgun ammunition and/or 00 Buck shotgun loads.http://www.razoreye.net/mirror/ammo-oracle/AR15_com_Ammracle_Mirror.htm#fbispec
The reason for this is the .223 is a light, very fast round. It does great damage and can even penetrate body armor, but it fragments easily after hitting a hard target. These fragments loose velocity very quickly. A min 16" barrel is needed to achieve fragmentation velocity reliably. The common 14.5" barrel on most M4gery's do not reliably achive the needed velocity.M193 and M855 at anything greater than 2200 fps will generally defeat all body armor up to and including Type IIIA. How much damage those rounds will do AFTER penetration is guesswork. In shorter barrels (14.5" and below) that damage is likely to be limited and wound profiles in such instances will resemble .22LR hits. With higher velocities it's still hard to imagine explosive fragmentation at anything but point blank range but M193 and M855 will certainly defeat all soft armor.http://www.razoreye.net/mirror/ammo-oracle/AR15_com_Amm
I can find plenty of news reports of home invasions where bad guys use body armor, but none where the home owner killed a neighbor while firing an AR15 in self defense.
