The media, gun grabbers and hoplophobes (but I repeat myself), in the process of joyfully dancing in the blood of the innocent victims of Fort Hood to push their agenda, are excitedly dragging out the old canard about the glorified .22 magnum pistol called the FN Five Seven (5.7x28mm) being a "cop killer" gun.
It's important that we not allow their promulgation of falsehoods in their attempt to exploit this tragedy for political gain to go unchallenged. The FN Five Seven is not an incredibly powerful handgun:
No rational person would ever wish for our soldiers to be attacked, but the simple fact of the matter is that Hasan’s reliance on a gun the uneducated media told him was a powerful “cop killer” quite possibly saved lives at Fort Hood. If the same victims had been hit with 155-180 grain .40 S&W or 185-230 grain .45ACP hollow points, their wounds would likely have been far more severe than the wounds they suffered from even a fragmenting 40 grain VMAX bullet in the most commonly available 5.7 cartridge.
The FN Five Seven is not an unusually dangerous design:
That said, it doesn’t seem quite accurate to call the Five-Seven a pocket-sized assault rifle. Its barrel would give it a lower muzzle velocity than a PN90; likewise, it strikes me as unlikely that it would give a shooter much more accuracy and effective range than a standard pistol. And plain-vanilla pistol round can be devastating enough: Think of the Virginia Tech shooter, who used a Glock 9mm and Walther .22.
And the ATF has tested and specifically precluded this firearm, with standard ammunition available on the civilian market from being classified as "armor piercing":
The FN 5.7 (Fabrique Nationale) pistol is a semiautomatic pistol in 5.7 X 28 mm caliber approved for importation as a sporting firearm.
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FTB has also examined a 5.7 X 28 mm projectile that FN Herstal has designated the "SS196." The SS196 is loaded with a Hornady 40 grain, jacketed lead bullet. FTB classified SS196 ammunition as not armor piercing ammunition under Federal firearms statutes. [emphasis added -ed]
The fact is, no matter what type of weapon the perpetrator used, the anti-freedom coalition listed at the beginning of this post would have found some angle to exploit for their purposes. The Virginia Tech incident had absolutely nothing to do with private sales of firearms, but witness how they continue to try to exploit that tragedy to push their completely unrelated political agenda to this day. Heck, even when the blood of the victims they are dancing in wasn't even spilled by perpetrators with guns, they try to turn it into a gun issue for them to exploit. It's sickening.
The fact is that the media is an active participant in this exploitation effort and simply will not report the truth, it is up to us to make sure that truth gets out, even if we have to do it face to face and inform one citizen at a time.
