"There is the advantage that a small or light bullet has over a heavy one when it comes to wound ballistics. … What it amounts to is the fact that bullets are stabilized to fly through the air, and not through water, or a body, which is approximately the same density as the water. And they are stable as long as they are in the air. When they hit something, they immediately go unstable. … If you are talking about .30-caliber, this might remain stable through a human body. … While a little bullet, being it has a low mass, it senses an instability situation faster and reacts much faster. … this is what makes a little bullet pay off so much in wound ballistics."
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Congressional testimony "House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Special sub-committee on the M-16 Rifle Program" (June 21, 1967) in Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services, Issues 15–25, p. 4563, cited in {{cite news |title=If Porn Could Be Banned, Why Not AR-15s? |authorlink=w:James Hamblin |first=James
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Eugene Stoner
Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997) was an American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16 rifle and was the prototype AR-15 style rifle.
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