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Take aim army style guns and bullets12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() 1 The human cost of America’s gun violence epidemic is visible not just in the overwhelming number of firearm fatalities but also in the radically altered lives of shooting survivors. It fragments in the body, ripping apart tissue and blood vessels, smashing bone, and shredding organs along its path. In other cases, the bullet’s path is less predictable. Sometimes, bullets travel through a body like a knife, propelled on a linear path, slicing through tissue and organs. Shooting Range Industries offers custom shooting ranges with many realistic simulation programs to hone your skills.The physical damage inflicted by any particular gunshot is the result of a combination of the firearm used and the ammunition fired. Modular Containerized Custom Shooting Ranges for Civilian, Law Enforcement & Military Training & Practice The military does it and so must you! The alternative may be death. In your mind to must validate the use of deadly force in a combat situation. Develop the mindset you will fire if it is determined that it is the only course to resolve violent aggression of an attacker. To do this you have to practice with at least a human silhouette target. You have to convince yourself to survive at all costs, even if it entails the taking of a fellow human beings life. Surviving violent, perhaps armed confrontation is a mindset. The other consideration is the concealed carry. The downside is that modern combat games may desensitize our children before maturity instills personal obligation, responsibility and to differentiate right or wrong. Why this discussion? Well two reasons for your consideration. The Army was very good at combat simulations with the kill rate going much higher in Vietnam.ĭo Video Games Desensitize Children to Violence? This is done to desensitize the individual to killing. Bayonet practice, some consider an obsolete weapon is taught to build aggression against the enemy, not necessarily expecting its employment on the battlefield. But during the Vietnam War they started to use human silhouette targets. ![]() Much early training was done using bulls-eye targets. ![]() If a regiment fired, and shot to kill, an opening volley should have created about 480 casualties, instead they were experiencing only a casualty every couple of minutes or so.īullseye, Silhouette Targets, Bayonet & Combat Simulation Training During the Civil War men would stand a mere 30 yards firing their guns, sometimes for quite long periods of time. Very few solders were actually firing and shooting to kill or at least hit an enemy. Many volunteered to recover wounded or tote ammo, anything to avoid killing a fellow human being. He observed that many men fired over the heads of the enemy rather into them. Marshall was the chief Army historian during World War II and the Korean War. Many not wanting to even fire over the heads of the enemy. It became apparent that there was an ingrained reluctance to shoot at the enemy. A far higher estimated number, with 95% empty muskets was expected. How Many Soldiers Actually Fire Their Weapons During Battlesĭuring the American Civil War 27,000+ loaded muskets where found on the battlefield at Gettysburg, many with multiple loading. Many machine gun rounds are consumed only to suppress enemy fire or to hinder their mobility and ability to engage and respond. The machine gun is used as a suppression tool to keep the enemy undercover as the riflemen maneuver to engage. Rifle or Machine Gun Related Deaths During World War I and IIįew, very few casualties are attributed to the sidearm, most being rifle or machine gun (actually artillery is the big killer, but outside of the current discussion). You could probably perhaps include the 40mm grenade launcher too. Pistol through the venerable ‘Ma Deuce’, M2 50 caliber Browning Heavy Machine gun. Currently in the US inventory it would be 9 x19mm, 5.56 x 45mm, 7.62 x 51 mm and 12.7 x 99 mm. Small arms ammunition includes the ammunition used by the sidearm, assault rifle, rifle and heavy machines. In Vietnam the American military establishment consumed an estimated 50,000 rounds of ammunition for every enemy killed. During World War II it was estimated that 45,000 rounds of small arms ammunition was fired to kill one enemy soldier. ![]()
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