Naperville that " [t]he muzzle velocity of an assault weapon is four times higher than a high-powered semiautomatic firearm." ...

Q: I am reading a book, The Rifle in America, by Philip B. Sharpe, first published in 1938. The first mention of muzzle velocity is on p. 22, referring to the Model 1842 Percussion Rifle. Muzzle ...

The president said that a round from an AR-15 travels five times as fast as one from a handgun. That's wrong.

But the temperature of the ammunition can alter the pressure produced inside the rifle, which will ultimately change muzzle velocity.

If you like to hunt small game with a rimfire rifle, this is a good thing because depending on muzzle velocity, a .22 Long Rifle bullet can drop as much as 10 inches between 50 and 125 yards.

You can plug numbers into a formula to calculate a rifle’s free recoil. After putting in the bullet weight, muzzle velocity, weight of the firearm, and weight of the powder charge in the cartridge, ...

Something like an AK-47, among the most common firearms in the world, doesn't fire bullets any faster than many other rifles, with a muzzle velocity of about 1,600 mph (2,580 km/hr).

Falling bullets, though slower than muzzle velocity, reach terminal velocity and can cause significant injury. Celebratory gunfire has led to injuries and fatalities, with head injuries being the ...

Instead of a very conventional rifle firing the 5.56 NATO round, the Army is now rapidly progressing towards developing and field-testing a new weapon that can double the muzzle speeds of a bullet.

In a skirmish with Russian armor, an AMX-10RC crew should try to open fire as far away as possible—1,500 yards or so—in order to take advantage of the F2’s high muzzle velocity while firing ...

At 100 yards, the AR-15's velocity is only slightly faster than most hunting rifles. In a 2020 article for the Tennessee Law Review, Wallace criticized several legal rulings that he said assumed ...