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Originally Posted by speede5
I'm no expert but, and somone can elaborate on this, Rifles and pistols are very different in accuracy, velocity, and effect.
I don't know a good analogy, but a pistol is brute force stopping power, Like getting hit is the face with a bat. A rifle shot will go right through you and keep going. They are both lethal for different reasons.
Police use bullets that expand and cut doing massive damage, causing the target to bleed out, penetration is not very deep. A rifle shot causes velocity related damage.
In war rifles are not exactly designed to kill. The full metal jacket is designed to go clean through, leaving a live victim, taking 2 more combatants out of play to tend to his injuries. That said, when the bullet goes through a major organ you will be pretty much screwed.
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Weird, I was always taught that it was more likely that a full metal jacket round will have a better possibility of going through barriers that the enemy was hiding behind, thus either suppressing him or getting a lucky hit.
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