From an paper found by  The View from North Central Idaho.

The .50 caliber Desert Eagle has similarly destructive characteristics that distinguish it from other handgun cartridges. It is an enormously powerful, high-velocity, armor-piercing round manufactured for use in tank-mounted machine guns that has been adapted for use in a few foreign made handguns.52

The Role of Ammunition in a Balanced Program of Gun Control (1994)

And this one is a doozy:

Similarly, Congress might reasonably decide to suppress the manufacture and sale of the high-velocity, high-energy handgun cartridges that tend to create the most massive wounds in shooting victims. Given the flexibility with which a cartridge of any size can be loaded, such a ban would not be conceived as a restriction on specific calibers. Instead, Congress would simply determine a maximum threshold or a benchmark of ballistic performance measured in muzzle energy that no caliber could legally exceed. If the paradox of legislating the design of “safer” bullets sounds absurd, one must realize that international law has proscribed the military use of expanding bullets for almost seventy years and still requires combat rounds to be fully-jacketed so as to limit the size of wound tracts and reduce the numbers of battlefield fatalities. The policy that limits the “lethalness” of the weapons American marines must carry into combat should apply with double force to the civilian inventory of handguns.

That is what happens when the means of communication were tightly controlled by the Old Media and nobody could challenge the lies.

WALKER COUNTY, Ga. – Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are looking into an officer-involved shooting in Walker County where a deputy shot and killed a man in his Rossville home.It all started in the early-morning hours of New Year’s Day when a woman called 911 and said her estranged daughter-in-law threatened to kill her child and then herself…

After the 911 call claiming there could be a murder-suicide in progress, deputies surrounded the home and GBI officials said those deputies stated several times who they were, but the family members said they were sleeping and didn’t hear the deputies.

When Mark Parkinson, who lives in the house, finally heard the commotion outside, he got out of bed to see what was going on.

He was armed, looking through a window, and that’s when Deputy John Chandler fired a fatal shot.

Source: Man shot, killed by deputies after 911 call claiming woman was trying to kill family members | WSB-TV

Clear violation of basic firearm safety: Be sure of your target.  Reckless disregard. I still would like to see if there is body cam video of the events.  It did not go well either for another officer in a similar situation:

OCOEE, Fla. — An Ocoee police officer was not justified in shooting into a home in the middle of the night after a dispatcher sent him to the wrong address for a domestic disturbance in 2016, an Orange County jury ruled Thursday.

Officer Carlos Anglero was found guilty of shooting into a building, a second-degree felony. Jurors deliberated for about 2½ hours after a two-day trial, during which he testified in his own defense. He declined to comment about the verdict.

Fla. officer found guilty of shooting into home

Go read the rest of the article. It is a frigging comedy of errors that could have killed somebody, but by the Grace of God, nobody was hurt unlike the case in Georgia. Officer Anglero is now facing up to 15 in prison. So much for Cops never seeing the inside of the Big House.

I am starting to get the feeling that some departments have some serious training issues. [end sarcasm]

Friend of mine just told me he ordered one from his local shop for $520.

That lamentation you hear is the death of the expensive AR 9mm.

It is making me rethink the whole moving north thing.

Is it me or there is a lot of people who equate responsibility with laws?
Is it a law required for you to do the right thing? Can you do it on your own without government guidance?

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SAN ANTONIO – Cynthia Ruiz, a widow and a single mother, said she collapsed when San Antonio police notified her the next day that her 19-year-old son, Andrew Herrera, had been shot and killed during an attempted robbery.

I am sure she heard for the first time that her little angel, wasn’t.

The botched robbery happened on Dec. 7 at a Popeyes Chicken in the 800 block of Southeast Military Drive.

I reckon Andrew thought that some cash and some Bonafide Chicken to go was just what the doctor ordered.

“Did my son deserve to be punished? Yes, he did,” Ruiz said.

We agree with you ma’am. But I am betting he was not punished at an early age. Doing an armed robbery is not like the flu: you just don’t catch it but grow into it.

Police said Herrera, wearing a hoodie and a mask, entered the South Side restaurant with gun and confronted a man and his family who were eating.

After the man told Herrera he had spent the money he had on their dinner, Herrera turned toward the counter and pointed the gun at one of the workers, who was running away.

Good move.

That’s when the man, who had a concealed handgun license, fired several shots at Herrera.

Damned good move.

Ruiz said she understands the man who shot her son was defending his family, but she asked, “Why shoot him four more times? Why did he shoot him five times?”

Because the gentleman decided five shots was all he needed to stop the threat that Mrs Herrera baby boy represented.

Ruiz said the man had no way of knowing what she later was told by a second suspect, the alleged getaway driver: “The gun wasn’t even loaded.”

Some myths are hard to kill and this one of the “If you use an unloaded gun, t is not armed robbery” is still alive and kicking even though it has proven to be legally hurtful and like in the case of Little Andrew, fatal.

I don’t get why media wants to lionize common criminals and their weeping moms. C’mon, it is not like she did not have her well-funded suspicions about what was he doing!

After that, Ruiz said, she eventually began questioning what he was up to, and why he was bringing home money when he didn’t have a job.
“If you have money from whatever you’re doing, you can take that money and find a place to live,” Ruiz said.

Well, what we get from this event is that somebody played stupid games against a father defending his family and he won a very stupid prize while his mom is no longer getting the income from his bad actions.