SAFE?!
View attachment 3363389 Magazine in magazine well, while in building, unsafe practice. Weapons need to be cleared before entering buildings. Magazine inserted in well prevents verification of empty chamber and weapon is cleared.
Finger below weapon frame, entering into trigger well. Unsafe practice, makes people unsteady, especially trained people.
Weapon held at low ready, a common shooting position. This is the position I take before shooting someone, your body language conveys unsafe practices and lack of understanding. Low ready inside is extremely unacceptable in any form, weapons need to be slung or holstered.
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Magazine in magazine well, he didn't clear weapon outside before entering building. Unsafe practice.
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Weapon slung, pointed at sky. Unsafe practice, weapons should be pointed at the ground at all times when not pointed SAFELY downrange.
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Weapon being held unsafely, he should be at low ready if he has no sling. He can't though, he lacks forearm strength to carry a rifle for long.
Lack of muzzle awareness, unsafe practice, he would shoot his buddy in the foot.
What was safe about that?
you must be a safety Nazi or something. I don't think you understand the purpose of carrying a firearm in public. You do it so that you can SHOOT SOMEONE if you have to. What good is having an unloaded weapon going to do when someone else decides they are going to threaten your life? Are you going to tell the bad guy " hold on , don't shoot me, give me a few seconds to get my weapon into condition 1 so that I can shoot you instead."
Let me be clear, I think walking around in public with a loaded black rifle just for shits and giggles is a bad idea. Taking it to Target is not a good plan. No one will be impressed, many will act irrationally due to fear.
Even if someone does decide to commit some crime while you intervene by shooting a high velocity rifle round in a heavily populated public area, how many innocent people will be in the path of that bullet?
At least with a traditional pistol round the velocity is less than 1/3rd that of a 5.56NATO round and frangible ammo can be purchased for that handgun so that harm to innocent bystanders is further mitigated.
This is why all states should have Concealed weapon laws instead. People don't act in fear if they don't know you have a firearm.
The ammo in question is the m855 round which is a 5.56mm NATO round with a steel core, full copper metal jacket around a lead base. We called it penetrator ammo because it can go through 1/2" mild steel plate.
It will penetrate some HARD PLATE body armor, but all high velocity rifle rounds will penetrate soft body armor so its nothing special in that regard.
This ban on the ammo is being justified as if it will save police officer lives, it won't. All the regular non penetrator rifle rounds will go through their soft body armor just like before. A AK47 target win round will go right through that soft body armor. Cops don't normally wear hard plate, restricts movement too much.
I would rather have someone carrying a gun around me to have that muzzle pointed up in the air rather than pointed at the hard cement floor. IF a negligent discharge happens when its pointed at the floor, you have the chance of shrapnel flying and hitting people around you. If you have a discharge when its pointed up in the air it is highly unlikely to cause any serious harm. Bullets don't go up in the air, lose all velocity and then come back down as fast as they went up, they come down no faster than if you stood at the top of a tall building and dropped that 62 grain copper jacketed steel cored, lead projectile onto the street below. Sure it might hurt if it struck you just right on the head, but it certainly isn't going to kill anyone. When troops are moving they have rifles slung on their shoulder with muzzle up. Also helps to keep dirt and debris out of the barrel that could cause a obstruction, and a major problem when one goes to fire the weapon and it blows up in your face
Anyway, the open carry law was more intended for hunters rather than people who think its cool.
The regulation will ban the sale and manufacture of the ammo.
I doubt a single police officer has ever been killed by a 5.56MM M855 round fired from a pistol out of the tens of millions of M855 ammo purchased and used over the years.
This ammo is only good for defeating light armor used by government agencies and military combat assets.
They don't want you to have that ability.