Small & BIG Bangs - Expanding "Parachute" Ammo:

The 'Laws of Physics' raise their heads occasionally to confound (.. and sometimes compound) the mistaken beliefs of your friendly local expert Fudd.

- Now I was just reading an excellent story about using .22" rim-fire hand guns for self defence - right away I smiled with the anticipation of reaching the COMMENTS section at the bottom of the page .. where the content is always better than reality TV.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/02/17/defensive-22lr-ammo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheFirearmBlog+%28The+Firearm+Blog%

I just knew that the usual mob of chimp-cousins would break away from their minders and scream wide-mouthed about "stopping power".
 Once again TFB  has posted a decent read with small graphics & images such as this:

CCI Stingers fired out of a 4″ Barrel Ruger Mk IV

When shooting ammo that is admittedly at the low end for velocity and mass
.. you can't have it all.

- IF you design a wee pill that WILL expand consistently in ordnance GEL .. as it opens-up it will form itself into a close copy of a drogue parachute and will slam on the brakes to stop short.

.. Meanwhile - back in the monkey-enclosure - your .50" caliber 400 grain supersonic ThunderQuake-Magnum-BigBoy may manage to loudly over-penetrate and expand it's girth somewhere past the target - provided you hold on tightly with squinted eye - while directing it's blast into a terminal impact.

not Greg ..

This argument is the gift that keeps-on-giving .. SO one more time .. may I again present police instructor Greg Ellifritz - one of America's finest - and his fact based study of actual recorded caliber combat performance :

https://flicense.blogspot.com/2014/01/stopping-power-study-by-greg-ellifritx.html

So much reading - So little time ..

It's rather obvious when you think about it ... But those folk with the strongest beliefs invariably  have the most tightly closed minds. They are fully committed.

A truly good anti-gun friend who is an Elder of his church holds unshakeable beliefs .. when I asked him how many nukes did he think might be held by our worlds military forces - he considered for a moment then replied with a sad smile .."Maybe as many as a hundred? - because evil is all around us" ...

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The Chicago based Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists 2020 states that US Defence Forces alone hold   5,800 NUCLEAR WARHEADS
- Russia has roughly the same numbers .. with a planetary total of around 14,000  nuclear warheads

Interestingly 'small fry' U.K with only 130 British nuclear warheads - is said to have the worlds largest stockpiles of fissionable weapons grade materials plutonium & uranium ... The '51st State' makes for a fine off-shore missile base & Materiel storage dump eh.

- It's estimated around only 100 low level nuclear detonations are needed to cause a total NUCLEAR WINTER.

Marty K.