03-04-2004, 09:59 PM
AtomicKitKat,Mar 3 2004, 05:50 AM Wrote:I dunno about you guys, but a 1% hit rate seems well, sucky. I generally support the total abolishment of firearms, but one thing I will insist on, if guns HAVE to be around, are much stricter criteria for a license. Yearly marksmanship tests, for instance. At least a 30-50% hit rate before you pass. Maybe even psych evaluations. If you only hit 1 time out of every 100 shots, you might as well arm folks with frag grenades, improve their accuracy. Hey, it might kill bystanders as well, but at least they'll blow up the perps. Collateral damage is inevitable.A 30-50% hit rate means that 5-7 rounds fired out of a 10 round magazine (the standard issue for civillian handguns) MISS the target. Better than 1%, but still laugably low, not to mention extremely dangerous (especially when you don't know where those rounds are headed down range). If you are going to institute accuracy requirements, one should probably aim for (no pun intended) somewhere around 99.9%. Collateral damage is not inevitable with proper training.
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