California considering curb on 50 caliber rifles

Harmon Seaver hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Sat Aug 2 17:27:08 PDT 2003


On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:21:54AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> Sniper weapons should be restricted
>   A .50-caliber BMG sniper rifle, in the wrong hands, would be terrorism 
> unleashed. The gun is powerful enough to punch a hole in an oil tank or 
> take down a civilian airplane. Its 5 1/2-inch long bullets can pierce an 

   What crap, eh? The bullet is more like 1.5" -- even a 20mm doesn't have a
5.5" bullet.


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