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“ Although police-issue bulletproof vests can stop rounds fired from a handgun, they are useless against assault rifles. “After seeing what little kids can get
by arkades 9y ago
“ Although police-issue bulletproof vests can stop rounds fired from a handgun, they are useless against assault rifles. “After seeing what little kids can get their hands on, I went out and bought hard plates,” designed for use in war zones, McClellan told me. The plates cost him more than five hundred dollars—a week’s salary. “
“Designed for use in war zones” described his body armor, not a gun. And it was armor he acquired after confiscating a Kalashnikov from a dealer.
Your comments read like nitpicking as applied to a light skimming. If you can’t criticize in good faith, why comment at all?
- jessaustin 9y agoThe nitpicking is somewhat understandable, in that TFA highlights "assault rifles" as having anything to do with the vests. Any rifle (other than e.g. a .22) can do what "assault" rifles are described as doing. In fact most hunting rifles are a lot better at penetrating armor than an AR-15 is.
- tdb7893 9y agoI don't know much about guns but my impression is that rifles seem to be categorized likely use case (e.g. sport rifles, hunting rifles, assault rifles) and in this case assault rifle seems to match both the use case he was talking about and also is an apt descriptor of the specific gun that led him to buy it. I don't really understand why assault rifle is inaccurate in this case.