# Anti-gun Democrat uses gun inappropriately

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803 "2015-05-11T19:29:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803/81 "2015-05-19T20:14:41Z")

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> [@Scumpup](#):
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> Looks to me that it was likely a .22lr. The cars I have seen shot up with 5.56 had circles of bare metal around the actual bullet hole. Just a somewhat educated guess, though.

Would he have military ammunition?

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803/82 "2015-05-19T21:19:12Z")

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Commercial 5.56 does it too. Most anything more powerful than a .22lr does it to some extent. Not sure what mechanism causes it, but the more powerful rounds knock the paint off in a neat circle around the hole. The .22lr doesn’t do it and sometimes doesn’t even make it through the sheet metal.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803/83 "2015-05-19T22:05:12Z")

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Thanks. That’s more information than we got from the news.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803/84 "2015-05-20T01:13:05Z")

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> [@Scumpup](#):
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> sometimes doesn’t even make it through the sheet metal.

That’s what I was thinking, but cars have pretty thin bodies now days, and I have no experience with that, although there was a car at work with a couple of what I thought were 9mm holes, and just holes, no paint missing.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-gun-democrat-uses-gun-inappropriately/719803/85 "2015-05-20T04:00:24Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> That’s what I was thinking, but cars have pretty thin bodies now days, and I have no experience with that, although there was a car at work with a couple of what I thought were 9mm holes, and just holes, no paint missing.
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> 🙂

The [Box o Truth](http://www.theboxotruth.com/tag/buick-of-truth/)’s sections on shooting into a car are interesting reading. From the holes in the pictures, and no ruler or caliper measuring them, I couldn’t tell you what put holes in that car. My first impulse was that it looked like buckshot (and I couldn’t tell you whether it was #1, #4, #00 or anything else) from 20 or so feet away, but I wouldn’t put any great weight behind that opinion.

Any definitive statement come out yet?

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