A little Gun-Day Monday action for you.
Shh! The word’s getting out– the 5.56mm round ain’t all it’s cracked up to be!
The study, co-written by Nicholas Drummond, a strategy consultant and ex-Welsh Guards officer, described British soldiers’ rifles as “not much more useful than a peashooter”.
Taliban marksmen use powerful 7.62mm ammo for their AK47 machine guns, according to a report of the study in The Sun.
Aside from obvious errors in that last sentence– AKs ain’t machine guns and they really should qualify “7.62mm ammo” as being not exactly the same as the 7.62mm NATO cartridges– there is much to be said, but little that hasn’t already been said.
We’ve known this for a while. The accuracy is not in question. The power of the round is.
