NYTimes. We need smaller bullets

**Statkowski** · April 8th, 2019, 11:36 PM

The U.S. Army went from 7.62mm (.308 cal.) to .556mm (.223 cal.) and I'm sure the N.Y. Times had some words of wisdom on the subject.

They don't seem to realize than an M-16/M-4 variant fires a .22 cal. round. True, it travels a whole bunch faster than a .22 cal. rimfire round, but it's still, technically, a .22 cal. round.

**Yoder** · April 9th, 2019, 06:25 AM

The AR-15 is now officially less deadly than a 9mm.

**Bang** · April 9th, 2019, 11:38 AM

NYT prolly thinks the AR-15 is 6mm larger than a 9mm. Like, isn't millimeter the huge system the Germans used in WWII?

**Pilot321** · April 9th, 2019, 11:50 AM

We need smaller amounts of criminals, and smaller amounts of instance people. How about that NYT? Just a Democrat propaganda rag with absolutely no credibility.

**Wilderness 1864** · April 15th, 2019, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by jakebrake

Humor me. What caliber were they using during the Civil War? I do believe that everything started with a four. That was long before you had murder is going on in Chicago and New York City.

.45 and .36. in the Colt and Remington cap and ball revolvers.

**Wilderness 1864** · April 15th, 2019, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Pilot321

Well Bezos owns the Washington Post, and a lot of big corps that are Far Left like Comcast also own media outlets. So yes, the elite leftists pretty much own the Media.

The entire mainstream media is controlled by a virtual handful of people.

**Bang** · April 15th, 2019, 11:41 AM

Smaller caliber guns evolved partly in response to availability and cost of lead and partly in ability to carry more ammo. History sort of repeated in modern times when we turned from .30 caliber to .223 (5.56x45mm) and from .45ACP to 9mm but this time cost and availability barely mattered.

**Boots_DE** · April 15th, 2019, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Wilderness 1864

The entire mainstream media is controlled by a virtual handful of people with a lot of money.

Fixed it for ya. And perhaps way too much money!

**Wilderness 1864** · April 15th, 2019, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by ideaman

Didn't the Marines had to use the 45 cal. against the Maoris?

Colonials used .60 cal shot against soldiers of the Crown. Union soldiers used .58 cal, .50 cal & 45 cal. rounds against their enemies. So I must have missed the NYT trend of ever increasing bullet size between now and then.