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Old April 12th, 2008 #36
Sándor Petőfi
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Originally Posted by sean(doc)martin View Post
Actually the reason Americans use the .223 caliber is because a person can carry 3 times as many rounds. In Korea and similar conflicts American soldiers were overrun by gooks and couldn’t shoot all of them with an 8 round garand. They couldn’t carry the massive amounts of rounds needed with the huge 30.06 so they switched to a lighter gun with lighter rounds. This allowed the soldier to carry over a thousand rounds in a battle pack instead of a couple hundred.
Yet soldiers firing bursts with an M16 waste more rounds than those firing aimed shots from an M1. So, really, how is this a solution? It's not; it's bullshit.

The real reason for the 5.56? The 5.56 is cheaper than the 7.62 and puts more money in the pockets of defense contractors. The US government cares more about profits and expenses than soldiers' lives. End of story.

That, and scrawny males and females can't carry and fire a rifle chambered for the 7.62.So that won't do at all. A woman with a rifle is just as deadly as a man with a rifle, right? It's the weapon that counts, not the person carrying it, right? So give 'em all shittier weapons.

Last edited by Sándor Petőfi; April 12th, 2008 at 03:01 AM.