Say have a 11 lb M1 Garand and bad guy has a stock 7.5 lb M4 carbine. You both come around opposing corners of a building with your barrel down and 90 degrees off target. You are only 10 yards from each other. You each see each other at the same moment. Assuming both shooters are equally skilled who wins?
The answer would likely be the bad guy with the M4. Mass at rest tends to stay at rest and it's going to take longer to put the 11 lb M1 Garand on target than the lighter M4 carbine.
Now, take the same scenero except instead of a M1 Garand, you've got a M4 Carbine with a 12" full length 18 oz rail, a front sight mounted on it that weighs another couple oz, and a rail mount QD socket that weighs another oz. Your rifle weighs 20+oz more than the bad guys. That's 1.2 lbs. Who will win when a fraction of a second will determine the winner? It would seem pretty clear that it will be the bad guy with the lighter stock M4.
What's the flaw in my logic here?
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