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Originally posted by Malchira
What you're terming "sniper" rifles are used commonly in long-range precision rifle shooting. The .50BMG is popular in that competition.
I fail to see your concern with this. You'd be just as dead if you were shot with a .308 instead of a .50, and in case you hadn't noticed, there isn't a lot of extreme-range criminal sniping assassinations going on.
And before some wiseass mentions it, the current difficulties in Maryland do not involve extreme range, and do involve a .223, which is on the opposite end of the power/range spectrum from the .50.
Oh, and make sure you believe everything you watch on television, because it's never wrong or biased.
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The Malitia group up north doesn't use the rifle for competition...
And why would I not believe the news when they show the police walking out of a guys house with a small aresnal of weapons? I mean the cop had to two hand that son of a gun rifle(the popular 50 call in question).
And my dad was in the air force...he's heard these rifles fire out of the country, I also have somewhat of a bit of knowledge cause i've got a friend thats a gun freak...you can hear the thing go off from miles away! Thats a lot of power in the hands of someone that isn't collecting them for the heck of it nor using it for competition.
And I'm more afraid of a bullet that will go through my house and kill me instead of a round that will only go into my wall and lodge itself there.
There is a certain level of weaponary that would "seem" okay in the hands of the general public...
9mm, 38s, Berttas, Revolvers...maybe even the 45.
But not Sniper class weapons or anything that the government uses for what they call "peace enforcment".
Oh yeah, and I live in a bad part of town, where they fire guns on constant occasions, i'm not to worried about them for some reason...but I do know that these idiots in my neighborhood do not have access to 50 cals and AKs...
Shotguns and 9mms are however in their possesion. I've got the shell casing of a 38 on a shelf in my room from outside of my house.