The New Magnum Gun (.50)
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<div class="IPBDescription">Well.... Why?</div> I don't know how long this thing has been around, i was coming back off a weekend trip earlier today and i was so bored in the car (5 hour car trip, WITH NO COMPUTER FOR FOUR DAYS ARRRRGHHH) that i began to read the paper. One of the little (pointless, really) articles was about the new Magnum, which (apparantly) is the most powerful handgun (revolver) in the world, able to kill an elephant in one shot. But, well, why? To my knowledge, the last magnum that was produced was powerful enough to kill a man virtualy where ever it hit. Why do you need anything more powerful than that? This is, in all honesty, just gonna be for the "Gangstas" (men who drive around in cars listening to D-12 and other assorted rap and R&B groups, shooting things that... well, did nothing really). I'm not critisising Smith & Wesson, i mean, they make guns, it's their job to come up with bigger and better ones. But this has virtualy no uses, the military doesn't really use revolvers any more, so the only people who are going to have them are gun collectors, who collect them because they are actualy into GUNS, not their effects, and mad, gun toting people with funny accents who shoot squirrels. Oh, and gangsta's. My basic question (if you hadnt picked it up) is, why? Why make it?
P.S how do they know it can kill an elephant? Shooting elephants is illegal. NAUGHTY SMITH & WESSON!
P.P.S i dont know how long this has been around, things that happen in america happen about 1 million years later in the U.K. we're just seeing this delightful film called "Wizzard Of Oz". Heard of it?
P.S how do they know it can kill an elephant? Shooting elephants is illegal. NAUGHTY SMITH & WESSON!
P.P.S i dont know how long this has been around, things that happen in america happen about 1 million years later in the U.K. we're just seeing this delightful film called "Wizzard Of Oz". Heard of it?
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The new Magnum .50 is the most powerful revolver ever made - it can kill an elephant with a single shot.
Already dubed the "gangsta gun" in America, there are dears it will be the weapon of choice for Brittish criminals.
It makes the magnum .44, made famous by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movices, look like a cap gun.
Priced at £600 (somewhere around $1300), the .50 weighs 5lb, is 15in long and holds five rounds for quick firing. Bullets are £3 (i dunno... 'bout $6.50 - $7.00) each.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I really have no idea what im on about with guns, i just know the business end is the end to point at them, and you pull the trigger (hopefuly in that order). If there are any faults, or if this is like, REALLY old news, it's the SUNS fault, not mine. lol
Sorry for double posting (and sounding like a geek) the longbow had a reason. Normal bows pretty much bounced off knights armour (after a certain distance anyway) whereas a long bow could pierce straight through. But, say for instance the last magnum wasn't very powerful, i could see the point in the upgrade. But let's face it, the last magnum is one of the most famous guns in history. You get shot by it, you generaly go down. There's little that can stop it, so why make a new one? I dont know about america, but over here in good ole' england, we dont get many elephants rampaging around the streets, so we dont have the need for a gun like that. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
The army, for one, does.
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Not over the face though.
*phew* FINALLY something that can help me with all those wild elephants roaming the English countryside.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->*phew* FINALLY something that can help me with all those wild elephants roaming the <b>English</b> countryside. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wuh?
BTW: Kevlar is like 100x stronger than steel, yes? I don't know, heard it somewhere.
I should hope so! I would'nt fancy protecting myself against a hail of bullets with a soccer net!
know what else goes through a car? Take a small replacable C02 cartrage that you can buy for paintball guns. Screw it in and let all the C02 leak out. take about 40 bottlerockets and crack them open. Seperate the 3 different powders inside then pour them all in the c02 the same order they came out the bottlerocket from. Pack it down with a pin or something then put a fuse in. Put that JB well stuff around the fuse then light it. Put it in a pipe, aim it and something, and run THE FUG away. Lol onetime it worked so well the stupid thing went so high we couldnt even see it. When we aimed it at a junk car, it punched through most of it. Pretty funny. So uh yea.... powerful handgun.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->the .50 weighs 5lb, is 15in long and holds five rounds for quick firing. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Fast firing? Yea right.....
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why not?
lol dubers. indeed, it is the natural progression of technology... back in 1983! yay.
Oh, about this longbow business: medieval england was full of feudal lords fighting with each other all the time - perpetual warfare. There's good reason to improve your weapons if they're going to be used. The major reason why weapons companies today make bigger and better ways of killing people is because they want to stay in business. Isn't capitalism great?
One word: Compensation.
i have to agree with this man here.
At least, thats the excuse I have heard from my various hick co-workers.
To recap, those lords in englands had bows, but they couldn't go thru steel. Thus they invented the longbow. Fearing the crossbows, the english lords have imported elephants to stay in business, as they needed .50 magnums to kill them and they haven't been invented yet. So then Harry (typical english name) went to england and had a .44 and was famous. Nowadays, the kevlar protects the elephants (tradition) so the lords (the bad ones) had to invent a .50 to stay in business. First killed off the knights with steel armor, then they will kill the elephants with their new .50
Yeah it all makes sense it's really simple actually. Perfect logic tbh
edit: for information, harry was dirty because fighting elephants isn't a clean job
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Acutaly more and more criminals are starting to wear body armour. Maybe not the full stuff like the north hollywood guys buts its becomming more common.
Anyways. With this new technology may be TSA marines finaly have their long awaited "Onos Killer".
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If somebody can shoot a .50 caliber revolver they don't need to.