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Giuliana Sgrena and a Real Rain of Bullets

Regarding the controversy surrounding the Giuliana Sgrena shooting, I figured I'd add some context of my own, courtesy of my father's central Texas law enforcement connections and a shooting in Schertz:

Herald-Zeitung: Officers find weapons, bunker in search

Officers who searched the home of a suspect in the attempted killing of a Schertz police officer found weapons, military equipment and a secret bunker Tuesday.

The search came a day after a Brooke Army Medical Center spokesman said Michael Patrick Kennedy, 48, had been released after being treated for three gunshot wounds suffered in a shootout Thursday night with Schertz patrol officer Richard Kunz.

[...]

Kunz pulled Kennedy over near the northbound rest area south of New Braunfels at 11:38 p.m. Thursday and was confronted with a weapon as he approached the vehicle.

The officer, faced with a fusillade of more than 30 shots from an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm automatic pistol, emptied his Glock service weapon in response. He was uninjured.

© 2005 The Herald-Zeitung. All rights reserved.


Here's a photo of the car in question.


This picture shows a wider frontal view. This picture shows a closeup of the winshield. And this picture highlights the direction of the bullets when they entered.

Compare this to the photos of the alleged car in the Sgrena shooting, where it was alleged that hundreds of rounds were fired at her.

The AK-47 typically fires a 7.62mm (.30 caliber) bullet. The round I assume the US forces shot at Ms. Sgrena is the 5.56mm (.223 caliber) NATO. Both are fired at high velocity (significantly faster than semiautomatic handgun cartridges) but the energy transferred to the target is different because the two bullets don't weigh the same. The lighter-grain 5.56 round will likely travel faster while the heavier 7.62 will go slower. I don't know what the two rounds (and the varieties among them are vast, mind you) will do in regards to visible damage, but I'd expect roughly similar results.

Personally, I've no horse in the political aspect of this issue. I got the pictures in my inbox (and there are more - these just happened to be the most illustrative) and decided to offer my three cents.

Posted by drizzten on March 10, 2005 11:52 AM |

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