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Jun 15, 2006 | 9:18 am

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Originally Posted by Flaflyer

What does accuracy have to do with it? Odds are any FAM is going to be less than 5 feet, and most always less than 10 feet from what he is shooting at. This is not a long range precision shooting situation. A FAM in row 65 trying to shoot a short barrel hand gun between pax and hit a bad guy standing at the cockpit door, on a bouncing plane, has little chance of hitting the target. Jumbos are over 100 feet long inside.

Accuracy has everything to do with it. There are going to be anywhere from around 18 up to 270 or so people on the plane who are innocent bystanders. Frangible ammo opens up yet another opportunity to waste one of them.

And that FAM probably won't be taking the shot from the back of the plane. That (in theory) is why they have two of 'em.

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