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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: 2aHawaii on December 11, 2009, 10:39:16 AM

Title: FBI getting 20mm rifles, no you can't have one
Post by: 2aHawaii on December 11, 2009, 10:39:16 AM

It looks like your miniscule .50 BMG will be nothing to the FBI. Apparently they are picking up a couple of 20mm Mag-Fed rifles.

Quote from: http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Forget-the-NRA-Its-the-FBI-that-apparently-has-some-serious-gun-nuts

According to this website, the FBI is spending about $13,000 apiece on two MagFed 20mm rifles. You read that right; not “.20-caliber” but “20mm.” We’re talking serious firepower here, a round capable of – as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence eagerly repeats at every opportunity to foment hysteria – shooting down a small airplane. That’s a cartridge with an effective range of more than 1,300 meters. It’s a cartridge that can launch a 4-ounce armor-piercing bullet, or even an explosive charge and put it on target from perhaps a mile.

Check out the size of that cartridge.  :o  :o :worship:

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Title: Re: FBI getting 20mm rifles, no you can't have one
Post by: Antithesis on December 11, 2009, 11:02:36 AM

This website says the ammo is $9.50 each round, $15 for tracer rounds:

http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm (http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm)

Title: Re: FBI getting 20mm rifles, no you can't have one
Post by: 2aHawaii on December 14, 2009, 09:00:27 AM

That's not too much more than .50 BMG :)