Baron66: If a .22 bullet is good enough for an m16 I think it's good enough for me.
LOL
As for the statement that the .22LR is responsible for the most deaths of any ammo... I'd have to throw down the challenge card.
The American Revolution and Civil War had MASSIVE body counts - and the ball was not the .22LR
Last 100 years you say?
WWI body count was in the millions - and none of those militaries relied on the .22LR
WWII body count was millions - again nobody relied on the .22LR. I'd say generically the .30 caliber (8mm, .3006, 7.62x54R)
Wars/conflicts/genocides since WWII - I'd venture the 7.62/.30 caliber (in various calibers x39, x54R, x51, x25) has to be the highest body count. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people.
Just look at the guns chambered and popularity - Mauser, Mosin, Garand, AK47, SKS, M14/M1a, FAL, VZ58, etc...
If you look just as pistol calibers -
Tokarev, Makarov, .38 revolvers, 9mm pistols (Browning HP), 1911s, SW pistols, etc. vastly outnumber offerings in .22LR. And most used in many conflicts in the world every day for the last century.