What is the point of a .600 caliber handgun?

[Double Naught Spy]

"Howdy" comes from "How do you do?" by way of "Howd'ya do?"

And "Howd'ya do?" comes from "How do you do?" assuming we are speaking of the greeting and not asking a shooter how well they just finished the last stage they shot in a match. "Well Jim, Howd'yado?" to which Jim says, "I shot great!"


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Would not a 50 BMG pistol, though, ban the ammo for it (at least in the USA) as 'armor piercing'?

No. There are .50 BMG pistols, but I don't know anyone who has shot them.

For guns such at a Thompson Center Arms Contender, you can get any manner of rifle caliber barrels such as .308, .30-06, etc. for which there is AP ammo available.

 

[iamkris]

Then again, you never know when you may need to take down Optimus Prime in a dark alley.

He doesn't seem like he'd be that hard to bring down

 

[Cliff47]

I wonder if we could get that varmint belt-fed?? I've been spending too much time in Bert Gummer's basement.

 

[wdlsguy]

Who is selling a .600 caliber handgun? Wouldn't it be considered a "destructive device" (hello, NFA paperwork!) by the U.S. government?

 

[JDyer]

We shoot it until we can get a .650 cal or .700, preferably called "MAGNUM."

Before I got my Barrett 50 BMG I really didn't know what it could be used for. Then after reading a congressional report by leading Democrats I found out I can down airliners at 25000 feet, puncture the lining of nuclear storage cannisters from a mile, derail locomotives at 5000 meters, penetrate armored personnel carriers and caravans of armored Escalades carrying leaders of the DNC, and a plethora of other gun related anti-social behaviors. I've only worked up to bowling balls, junk compressors, bricks, engine blocks, transmissions, and old Wal-Mart manikins, but the world is now my plinking oyster. Just ask any woman, or man in San Fran; Bigger is Always Better

Lots of Love

 

[bamawrx]

A .600! wow that sounds great....well, at least until they come up with the .601

 

[kengrubb]

I'm waiting for a 2.5mm revolver for mouse/hissing cockroach duty.

 

[kengrubb]

Isn't there some restriction that .600 is the biggest hand gun round from the BATF? Maybe it might just be California?

Actually it's in 18 USC 921(a)(4)(B).

Destructive devices are anything over .50 caliber, and not a "sporting purpose" shotgun.

 

[EZ CZ75]

I have loved this thread!!!

As for reloading the abrams round, i think that a Case backhoe would have the power to move the lever. but, do I have to do a full case resize or just neck size?

 

[jackal1209]

No point for me I see, but as an acquaintance said as he read over my shoulder,
"Cause they don't make a .700 cal." I know, I know.....

 

[Strings]

If I had the money, I would get a pair of the .600 revolvers for CAS: not to use myself, mind you, but to hand to the idiot going on about "get a gun in a REAL caliber!"...