Former sheriff Joe Buice
Buice released from hospital; gunman's rounds were armor-piercing
Former sheriff Joe Buice was released from Grady Hospital in Atlanta just after noon today and was on his way home.
-Media sock puppet term "assault rifle", even though that is incorrect unless the weapon is select fire/full auto. The weapons involved here were not FA. None of the officers involved would be alive if they were.
-"AK-47", which is incorrect for anything other than a full auto rifle chambered in 7.62mm. Print edition says Buice was shot with ".223". AK clones are not available in that caliber. Russian 5.45mm would be the smaller round version.
-"armor piercing" rounds. Another media sock puppet term. Military "ball" rounds are full metal jacket and non expanding. Steel or tungsten core. Actual AP rounds are difficult to find and thus expensive.
"Hollow point" rounds are considered "inhuman" by the Hague Convention(...Google) for military use. Had Buice been shot by 7.62 hollow point, he would be dead with a closed casket service. Have a look at what 7.62 FMJ does to clay at the link below.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot16_5.htm
Scoop, you have people in your readership that own these weapons. If you are going to toss around sensationalist terms incorrectly-expect to be called on it. Accurate reporting means fact checking and not simply mindless quoting to forward an agenda.
Saiga has been making AK-clones in .223, .30-06, 7.62x39mm, 5.45x39mm, .308 Winchester, 9x53R, and 5.6х39mm for years and, even though buying them stock will only make them look halfway Kalashnikov, it only takes ~$50 to make it look spot on.
I ultimately agree with your post, just correcting your statement.
The term assault weapon is a more aggressive term that makes the guns look like some terrible terroristic weapon that has been imported through the underground or black market. These things are available anywhere and everywhere. They are 100% within the restrictions that the govnt has in place. When law enforcement shoots someone with one of their M14 or what ever type of tactical weapon some of the special force officers have, the media dont report that they killed the suspect with an assault weapon. Its the same thing. The only thing you cant buy is class 3 firearms. (well you can buy them but there is a good bit of money that has to be spent for a tax stamp for each weapon).
That being said, I have to add the following:
Any center-fire rifle cartidge you can imagine, from .243 to .50 BMG can seriously be considered "armor piercing" when you look at the facts. Body armor is only effective against rifle fire at longer ranges, after the muzzle velocity of the round has dropped to a point that the armor can stop it. At anything under 50 meters, just about any rifle is deadly against armor light enough to be able to move in.
This is not to say that body armor cannot be made proof against high velocity, high powered rifle cartridges, because it certainly can, but the price of that protection is severely decreased mobility.
All the hoopla about "armor piercing assault rifles of mass destruction" is just muddying the waters, and could easily be dropped without losing any newsworthiness.
Joe, congratulations on being home and people are pulling for you and wishing you the best. Its a shame officers have to put themselves in front of weapons like that owned by mentally unhinged people.
But I do agree with you.... Get well soon Joe. This world needs more men like you. I only dealt with Joe once while he was Sheriff. My son was attacked by a dog and Joe came to the house himself. He talked to us for quite a while, went and took care of the animal himself (found it and held it for animal control), and then came back in person to tell us that we would not be bothered by that dog again. The next week he called the house himself to check on my son. That kind of service means alot to us.
Actually, other blog posts were in place to express your feelings about Buice and the incident. The anti gun media tries hard to use these incidents to sway public opinion about gun control.
This same media would have us believe they are striving to the utmost for accurancy and truthfulness. Throwing sensationalist terms around inaccurately does not works with this new media. Readers can call you out on your agenda driven drivel. Breathless use of terms like "AK-47", when it wasn't, "armor piecing bullets" when they are aren't, "assault rifle" when it is not, won't pass muster in this new venue.
I was once told that a good way to gauge the veracity of what you are reading/watching with the media is to observe what they say about something you know about. That is on full display here with these blog posts.
What gun could have prevented Joe from getting shot. Water gun?