Condottiere said:
I've been told that if you're shot, you're out of action; considering we have accounts of the walking wounded fighting, I think that's temporary and not necessarily lethal, not wishing to test that theory on myself.
Is a twenty two long rifle lethal? Yes, depending on how you roll.
gunshot effects could fill up a thread on it own...no gunshot is what you would call minor, bleeding, infection, tissue damage can add up pretty quickly. I have seen the evidence of a friend taking a .38 special to the chest, the bullet was a through and through he walked home and called the ambulance himself. There is a scar on his back, and a scar on his chest he was shot at pint blank from behind and walked away with nothing but a scar a short hospital stay and a good story to tell. The cashier at the next store fdown the road took a .25 ACP to te eye, destroyed te eye, but the bullet stopped against the bone at the back of the eye socket.
A third fellow shot by the police less tan half a mile from my house had six bulets in him fro a shootign the night before....he was killed by a load 12guage shot from a sheriff's deputy.
On the other hand, there are reliable accounts of a person being killed by a .22short, which is a particularly small round...a single projectile hit a major blood vessel and they bleed out in minutes. the .45ACP was adopted due to the low stopping power of the standard issue pistols used by American troops in the Philippines during an uprising. If stores are to be believed rebels would take multie shots fro the gun and keep charging..they wre dead on ehr feet but the trauma wasn't enough to actually disable them.
ON Medal of honor winner was fatally injured by .30 caliber and 20mm fire, but crawled back to his guns and shot down an enemy fighter beforedying...He was dead on hsi feet, nearly totally disabled but continued to fight for a minute or two.
So long story short...Injuries form gunfire are dangerous at any level, but not always disabling, even if they are in fact lethal.
Condottiere said:
Referred to as a slide or bump fire, you add this to your semi automatic rifle or carbine, and you now have a full automatic weapon.
You turn a screw to make it float, and the recoil will continuously force your finger to press the trigger.
This is very useful, in jurisdictions where automatic weapons are controlled or illegal.
Haven't seen one for shotguns, but you could have one for a pistol, if you add on a stock or a chassis, which has the added benefit of stabilizing it.
Tese thigs are basically just fancy toys to show off to yer friends or guys at the range.....There are several devices that allow a semi-automatic weapon to MIMIC full auto fire. Usually, they are of questionable effectiveness, and even more questionable legality. Te actual usefulness of a system like that is up to debate as well. In all honesty, Full auto fire is not that big of an advantage unless you are in some serious....stuff.... It would be easier, cheaper and less legally involved just to go by a semi auto shotgun and load buckshot You put more lead down range per second, and it costs a LOT less than a semiauto carbine and a fancy gizmo.
IN the US adding a stock to a pistol is a No-No, it can get you jail time if you dont have the right paperwork. You can get arm braces that fits to the weapon and wrap around your forearm, or follow some pretty convoluted rules to add a stock to CERTAIN pistols.
) if push came to shove I could always fire it while it was still in my pocket. And there is the extra benift that if someone said hand over yer wallet, reaching into your pocket to "get yer wallet" is not going to cause as much suspicion...
