Posted on 06/14/2016 2:30:38 PM PDT by Zakeet
"It feels like a bazooka - and sounds like a cannon."
How do we know AR-15s are the single most lethal weapon on the planet? Because they're SO LOUD. LOUD, YOU HEAR ME?! LOUD!!!!
This is one of those things that must be read to be believed, and no, this was not found in The Onion, amazingly.
New York Daily News reporter Gersh Kuntzman set out to test shoot an AR-15. “It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon,” he writes.
A cannon. And Bazooka? The same bazooka also known as a "recoilless rifle"?
I would like to invite @GershKuntzman to an Aggie football game where we have an actual cannon.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess this dude has never shot a 12 gauge before.
But it just gets worse from there.
Many gun shops turned down our request to fire and discuss the AR-15, a style of tactical machine gun popular with mass killers such as San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook and Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen.
Except for the fact that there WAS NO AR-15 USED IN THE ORLANDO TERRORIST ATTACK.
Kuntzman finally found a taker to let him play with this bazooka-like cannon weapon of mass destruction and then assumed that the gun shop owner, Frank Stelmach, was not like the average gun owner. Why? Because Stelmach doesn't like murder.
But Frank Stelmach of Double Tap Shooting Range and Gun Shop invited me, videographer Michael Sheridan and reporter Adam Shrier to come down. Stelmach is not like many gun lovers. He admires his weaponry, yes, and has difficulty explaining why law-abiding citizens need a gun that can empty a 40-round clip in less than five seconds. But he also hates the idea that "bad people" get a hold of a gun like this and use it to kill without difficulty.
Then we get to the really fun part; the part where Kuntzman describes his brush with barrel shrouded death, which he claims bruised his shoulder and gave him PTSD.
Not in my hands. I've shot pistols before, but never something like an AR-15. Squeeze lightly on the trigger and the resulting explosion of firepower is humbling and deafening (even with ear protection).The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions - loud like a bomb - gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.
If a .223 rifle bruises your shoulder, you should eat more bananas.
For Christ's sakes, I learned to shoot a Ruger 10/22 when I was 8. Then moved up to a .410 shotgun and a .223 when I was a 10-YEAR-OLD-GIRL.
Kuntzman also claims the gun had a fully automatic mode, which any moderately educated citizen knows is not something anyone can walk into their local armory and buy off the shelf. Even our fine Lone Star State legislators questioned this claim:
Lolol: Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, dangerous and very very loud http://nydn.us/1U6V2uW
@KemberleeKaye @85thLegislature - The author also claims he also got the AR15 to fire in "fully automatic mode." Wonder how he did that.
The anti-scary-looking-gun-derangement-syndrome knows no bounds, apparently.
Reminds me of the idiot reporter a few years ago who claimed that when someone tried to break into his house he tried to load his pump shotgun but was so shoot up he was ejecting the unfired cartridges as fast as he put them in the tube magazine.
Dum bass did not realize the pump shotgun has a lockup that requires the trigger to be pulled or a button to be pushed to eject an unfired round.
Depends on the era. My M16 was full auto or selective fire. No burst mode. That was late 70s early 80s vintage.
Good God, what a drama queen. Maybe that "temporary" case of PTSD hasn't quite left him yet. Anyone with that sort of problem with an AR needs a nursemaid, not a firearms instructor.
I'm guessing - only guessing, mind you - that this milksop has never served in anything more serious than a Cub Scout troop, who would likely be embarrassed by his presence.
or aim shoot shoot move aim shoot shoot move aim shoot shoot.
A bazooka has no recoil.
They allllll look the same, don’t they?
“For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.”
The pussy doesn’t realize that is adrenaline. And it feels good.
dork!
Nice. I did shoot a .44 magnum - 6 inch I think it was.
Now once on that was enough for me.
For pistols I prefer 9mm and .45. But I have no doubt what a .357 or a .44 is capable of. Couldn’t hit much with my .45 but my state trooper friend was incredible with it.
The incident also caused discomfort to his vagina but he didn’t think it proper to mention that.
Is he smelling his B.O.?
Sure wasn’t surprised at his picture. Figures he’s NY Daily News.
I hear its a nice revolver for .44 special.
Aka, recoiless rifle.
One does not want to be standing directly behind it, when fired.
Poor little Snowflake!
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