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melchloboo · January 28, 2009, 06:27 PM

Not a SD situation...but a middle school girl here in Florida recently killed a classmate in the hallway with a .22. I do not know the details of the wounds, just that the newspaper reported it was a .22 semi-automatic.

I believe I read that Mossad agents hunted down and used .22 at point blank range on the masterminds of the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes. Perhaps a mix of myth and reality, but supposedly during the cold war the .22 was the weapon of choice for international assassins. It is a very easily silenced round, supposedly.

January 28, 2009, 06:27 PM	#11
melchloboo Senior Member Join Date: October 2, 2008 Posts: 279	Not a SD situation...but a middle school girl here in Florida recently killed a classmate in the hallway with a .22. I do not know the details of the wounds, just that the newspaper reported it was a .22 semi-automatic. I believe I read that Mossad agents hunted down and used .22 at point blank range on the masterminds of the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes. Perhaps a mix of myth and reality, but supposedly during the cold war the .22 was the weapon of choice for international assassins. It is a very easily silenced round, supposedly.