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Originally Posted by EchoMirage
by far the most common round for an AR15 style gun is .223. id say about 98% of them, worldwide, are .223. you CAN get them in a 9mm.....but the clips shown in the movie were bigger. you can also get them in a .308.....but again, clips were standard .223 size. you can also get a kit to convert them into .22s....but why would you do that then shoot at a car?
id hope they were V6s. but remember, movies are hideously expensive. even a ****y action flick like the marine could cost what, 100 million? 80 mill? a few 10K SSs is a drop in the bucket to them.
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AR15 is 5.56mm/.223, they can be converted into a large number of calibers though from .22lr all the way up to .50AE, I've seen 6.8mm SPC, 6.5mm Grendel, 458 SOCOM, .50 Beowulf, 9x19mm, .45acp, 7.62x39mm. AR-10s look almost identical in every way to an AR-15 but it is the ORIGINAL version of it that the defense contractors didn't want to take, it is .308 NATO. Pretty much all those rounds other than the pistol calibers are armor peircing by nature. 5.56mm is capable of peircing armor even if it's not truly an AP round. Now a problem with 5.56 is that it is so small and so fast that i will punch right through a lot of things, but that's about it. As soon as it hits it's first barrier it fragments, this is the main design of the round to cause a huge wound channel, thereby making ineffective after the first barrier. AR-15s are considered good for home defense because once the round hits a wall it will fragment and if any of the peices of the bullet left still have enough energy to penetrate the wall, they won't be able to do too much damage to anything on the other side.
also they are mags, not "clips"
SS109 is steel penetrator, legal for civvie ownership, not AP, but rather close.
BTW it's Martin, figured I didn't NEED to add that for most of you to know but figured just in case.