What gun for rampaging SUV driver?

"I don't really want to inject any levity into the discussion of a tragic event, but did anybody notice the ad that pops up just to the right of the article"
Sort of 'next time, use a Chrysler, you won't have so many wounded and so few killed'. Or 'start your next killing spree on the cheap!'

we are in the age of aluminum engines. any rifle round will knock pieces out of em. however, the driver is as big as the engine, and he bleeds out faster than a radiator or oil pan.

put half your rounds into the engine, and save the rest for clear shots at the driver when hes closer. tires deflate slowly and wont go flat fast enough to do you any good till later when they are driven down to rims.

Mark-19

Bond, James Bond's "car-stopper"...

In some of the Bond novels of the early 1980s, John Gardner wrote that 007 had a single action Ruger .44magnum Blackhawk to use as a "car-stopper".

Rusty

I'd just try to get behind cover. I don't think I'd bother shooting until then. If the vehicle's already coming at you at speed, no gun around is going to stop it. Even without an engine it's only going to slow down gradually unless the guy hits the brakes. It might take a mile or more for a car going at highway speeds to slow to a stop.

A javelin missile launcer ,or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GAU-8_avenger.jpg . Either one should do nicely.

My Choices(in no particular order)

1.Faster vehicle!
2.Solid coverEEP ditch,concrete barriers,etc.
3.Bigger vehicle:Mack truck.
4.RPG
5.Barrett .50
6..444 Marlin
7.30-06
8.47-70
9.dirt bike:agility & ability to go places SUV can't.
10.helicopter
11.James Bond jet pack

Wait a minute, back up the bus, stop that train..................

"I once read about a LEO doing a "One-Shot-Stop" on a vechicle. (Can't remember for sure what he was using, but I think it was a .45.) Said LEO fired (Maybe more then one) at the car accelerating away, and ONE round hit the pavement below the car, and bounced up (piercing the plastic flywheel cover) and lodged itself between the starter gear and the flywheel... Instant stop.

Call it what you want.. "


I'll call that a tall story, really tall in order to get the angle needed to get a round deflecting off the pavement and lodging between the starter gear and flywheel stopping a car.

And as the car was moving AWAY from the shooter, the angle decrease's as he is shooting from behind the vehicle.

A .45ACP or Colt isn't that acrobatic.

I also don't think a bullet is going to stop a flywheel from turning.

And why is the starter gear that close to the flywheel? It gets out of the way when the engine is running leaving a very large space for a bullet to fill.


You're pulling my leg.

Vick

no gun

3/4 ton dodge pickup 7000 pounds with tool load will squash honda
problem is by time you figure out whats going on its over.or at least your window of oppurtunity is

In a handgun, ammo chioce is important...

For stopping moving vehicles, full sizes rifles[think MBR's or simple "deer rifles"], but as noted before, you can't walk around all day with one.....

So, as usual, we are down to sidearms. Handguns are not nearly as effective on cars as hollywood would have us believe....even on windshields. Early testing is showing that the solid copper CORBON DPX is doing a great job piercing car doors and windshields, while sill giving excellent expansion in its "normal use". Its pricey, but my experience with it so far has been excellent. I'm carrying it in my 10mm now, and my SO has it in her 9mm 1911. Testing which load I like better in 45acp....the 165 or 185 gr load.

I sure wish the price would come down a bit

My realistic choice would be .357sig

It's all about shot placement. Big and slow, small and fast, if you can't place it where you want it, it's not worth it.

In California, isn't it the POH-LISE's job to stop BG's in SUVs?

A Barrett .50cal would make for a nice one-shop stop. Take out the engine block and driver with one shot.

It's a shame that Arnie considers a little 1/2in bullet fired from a $5K, 35lb gun too dangerous for law abiding citizens. It must make you Kali boys sleep better knowing that gangbangers aren't walking around with a Barrett .50 tucked in their wastebands and a box of 50BMG in their back pocket.

Something simple and Soviet.

RPG for all your SUV needs!

Unleaded in a 40 oz glass bottle with a flaming rag in the spout. Joe

I can't believe I wasted my time reading this non constructive, what if thread, based on an article that doesn't have anything to do with firearms in the first place. While you gentlemen make light of such a tragady. Now that I have put my 2 cents in, I believe I will move on to the next thread. Have a nice day

20mm with incendiary rounds. or HE rounds.

SMAW with Mk.3 Mod.0 HEDP rocket (suitable for masonry, concrete walls, light armor like SUVs) would be suitable. But I've yet to see the day someone could walk around with one, or CCW one - only 54 inches and 29.5 pounds.

man, you guys keep wanting to use all these pee shooters for out of control soccor moms in Ford Excursions

My prefered suv killer....

He is from Afghanistan & they are saying he was mentally disturbed.

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Sounds like his defense attorney is feeding the press.

Pilgrim

A CZ52?? You mean one of these?

http://makarov.com/cz52/

I was thinking about getting one of these, and pardon my ignorance but are they really powerful enough to shot through an engine block?

yea

We obviously need to outlaw these dangerous killing machines. People can walk!

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And we should make people obtain a license to buy one... and they should have to register them...

Mk 19 , MA Duece, or recoiless rifle!

How about an auto 12ga. with the HE slugs.