| From: | Spider Murphy <crickel@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Mages and Foci |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:48:28 -0600 |
> needs an Uzi. Maybe even not that much.
You're right.
An UZI is a 9mm sub-machine gun, so it's subject to the limitations of all
low-velocity, high-mass pistol ammunition fored from a short barrel - most
noteably, a relatively short range, and inacurracy.
A five-year-old can't run very fast, and so needs a greater stand-off distance
to deal with large numbers of attackers and/or the reload time associated with
automatic weapons with a high rate of fire (and thus an implied high rate of
ammo consumption)
However, due to the average five-year-old's strength and mass, a heavy,
high-recoil weapon like an AK-47 or FN-FAL shooting 7.62mm probably isn't
suitable either.
The best tradeoff between weapon weight, range, accuracy, recoil, and rate of
fire would tend to indicate a weapon firing the NATO 5.56mm - I suggest the
Canadian C7, an M16 derivitive that lacks the "we can't count" 3-shot burst mode
of the latest American M16 and so can do sustained automatic fire. (useful in
those sticky temper tantrum situations)
Just trying to help,
Spider Murphy
