Reply #46: Have you priced a S&W .500? [View All]

$800 to $1000. Ammo is about $3 a round. Fairly cost prohibitive. Everything I've seen in shops has barrels 8" minimum. With the ported barrel you'd probably be deaf after firing one round. It's a wheel gun so that's only 6 shots, wait a minute, large caliber, so that's 5 rounds. RECOIL from a round like that? I'm going to guess at about 1,000 ft-lbs. (.44 mag @ 800 ft-lbs). Gonna hurt like a SOB. Sort of like driving a Chevy w/a V-8 450. Fun, loud, expensive, take it out once a year. People buy big cars and guns for the testosterone rush.

An absolutly ineffective stupid gun for use on people. Good woods gun for BIG bear.

The notion that this is being marketed for use against police armor is silly. Any perp w/$200 (or less) can buy a shotgun and hack saw at Wal-Mart and do worse things to a LEO in body armor. Just about any rifle round .222 or larger has the same potential energy as that hand cannon and can penetrate body armor. What we really need to do is ban hack saws.

The VPC really needs to hire a good technical consultant, that need to stop speculating and get to the truth of matters if they expect to stop alienating reasonable gun owners.