Ft Hood murderer uses the FN 5.7 x 28 cartridge

[atblis]

Exprired doesn't mean it wont stop bullets, it's a way of making you buy new ones.......

It's also a means for limiting liability.

 

[Landpimp]

will have my 5.7 tommorow, coming from the WSP(my guess is was from a wife beater), I picked it out months ago when looking at the evidence guns....always 1-2-3 I like for myself, the 5.7 was one of them, just because I was curious and it cost me little.

had to laugh, told my buddy my yellow lab pup(7 months) could crew thew a ballistic vest(if it has a tag, he can kill it), so I tossed him some panels......yup, crewed thru it in 2 days

so to keep the bad guys away, going to let him tear up a full vest(maybe toss some red paint on it) and toss it on the lawn.....

 

[ranger335v]

"these people. They should be executed and buried in unmarked graves."

Laid to rest, sorta, in a toxic land fill perhaps? Near the waste from hog farms?

 

[wally]

They should be executed and buried in unmarked graves.

No fight terror with terror, their bodies should be fed to pigs in this case!

--wally.

 

[p35]

Landpimp-

How do you get into a deal like that? You law enforcement?

 

[Double Naught Spy]

No fight terror with terror, their bodies should be fed to pigs in this case!

--wally.

wally, you are suggesting that it would be terror because you believe the myth that Muslims fear contact with pigs as it will render them unclean and hence unable to go to heaven, akin something supposedly Pershing did. It is one of those stupid myths that we tell to make ourselves feel empowered when it does nothing at all.

 

[Kingofthehill]

Idiot worker at the local gun shop was showing the 5.7 to a customer bragging how it was what this POS used to kill all those people.... the 5.7 is such a powerful cartridge, blah blah blah...

*Sigh*- I hate idiots.

 

[CornCod]

As far as feeding anything to the pigs, I am making no firm conclusions about this case until the arrested man is convicted or exonerated. Seems like there was a lot of confusion at the crime scene, so much confusion that the Army arrested two people and later released them. The Army also stated for hours that the alleged perp was dead when he really was wounded. I am not disparaging the Army; it was indeed a choatic situation and it is likely that they have an explanation for all this. I am not assuming that the arrested man is either gulity or innocent until everything gets hashed out in court.

As for the 5.7 round, I am still of the opinion that the jury is still out on that round. It has been on the market for just a few years and there probably have not been enough documented shootings to come to any firm conclusions about it. It might be either a great man-stopper that slices through ballistic vests like a hot knife through butter or a weak .22 magnum equivalent that can't kill a squirrel with one shot. Speculation is fun and even productive in its way, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

One thing that surprised me was that Army bases depend on local law enforcement for SWAT services, at least at Ft. Hood. I always, perhaps foolishly, assumed that the Military Police would handle such situations.