Muggle with gun vs wizard12/3/2023 Jesus Christ, are you people still pushing this line? If a burst of accidental magic can save Neville from a three story fall why exactly would a firearm be unstoppable? Better yet, if a simple cooling charm can negate the effects of temperatures exceeding 2900 F (1600 C) and a first year levitation charm can stop something falling with a force exceeding 10k Newtons why exactly would magic be "useless?" If life obeyed the laws of a horror movie you'd die in the first act.Even with the safety issue at hand, the advantages of using guns on pure-blood Deatheaters who don't have them, don't know what they are, and have never seen a gun before in their lives far outweigh the risks, considering that this is a life and death conflict. Not having any formal training in how to use firearms has NEVER stopped anyone engaging in irregular/guerrilla warfare.There's a reason that firearms instructors tell people applying for concealed-carry permits that if they don't intend to put proper effort into learning how to use them, they should not carry them. What stops them is that neither Harry or Hermione have ever had the slightest amount of training in how to use firearms, have nowhere they can go to get such training, and that they have enough common sense to figure out that the proper description for people who go out intending to get into gunfights without ever having trained to use guns is "idiots".Therefore, we are looking into defenses against these weapons, and are arming ourselves with them. Also, one killing curse every few seconds has nothing on a rate of fire of ten bullets per second, each plenty lethal. It would undermine everything they believe in if Voldy came to the next monthly Death Eater meeting and announced, "It turns out that magic is of remarkably little use when one is too full of bullets to cast it. And they're way too arrogant and self-superior to ever do any research into Muggle weapons, even if they're getting killed by them. A handful of people armed with these and trained in basic marksmanship could have eliminated Voldy and any of his cronies before they'd even realized they were under attack. And it operates on purely mechanical principles, so the magical wizard plot field of inconvenience shouldn't have any effect. This easily outpaces any wand and out-ranges most (if not all) of the magic that we've seen. An old, cheap, easy-to-acquire (in the right places) AK-47 has a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute and an effective range of 300 meters.
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