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Except Childs also doesn't know shit about guns.
In the first book Reacher carries a Desert Eagle, and anyone who knows anything about guns knows the Desert Eagle is a range queen. They're unreliable, eject shells into your face, not terribly accurate, have a tiny ammo capacity and don't make a person any more dead than a 9mm.
Then in the second book he shits on Glocks for being unreliable, and describes the Barrett 50 cal as a sniper's weapon of choice. The Barrett isn't a sniper rifle - it's an anri-materiel rifle made to break shit. The only reason it even exists is because the Army wanted foot soldiers to be able to use the 50 BMG round to take out enemy equipment without having to carry a 130-pound gun that had to be assembled to use.
Basically, he gets his gun knowledge from video games.
To be fair here, the sniping distance record was made with a Barrett M82 multiple times. A Browning M2 also held the record for nearly 20 years.
Yeah, but those are shots that happened to hit. They could've missed by a ton just as easily. It does have a longer range than a typical precision rifle, but that's just because it's a really big projectile with a fuckton of powder behind it.
It's a 1-2 MOA rifle, whereas a precision rifle might be 1/4 MOA.