Posted on 06/13/2016 11:43:20 AM PDT by george76
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson used the aftermath of Sunday’s Islamic terror attack to claim AR-15 semi-automatic rifles can fire 700 rounds per minute.
Security guard Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded over 50 others during an attack on a gay nightclub — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Mr. Grayson, a Democrat, was asked about the massacre and soon turned his attention to the AR-15 rifle.
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“If [Mr. Mateen] was not able to buy a weapon that shoots off 700 rounds in a minute, a lot of those people would still be alive,” the congressman said. “If somebody like him had nothing worse to deal with than a Glock pistol … he might have killed three or four people and not 50. It’s way too easy to kill people in America today, and we have to think long and hard about what to do about that.”
CNN’s Erin Burnett then replied, “You’re right about that.”
Conrad Close, the conservative editor in chief of American Crossroads, then offered $50,000 to the charity of Mr. Grayson’s choice if he accomplish the feat,
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The people in charge of writing our laws. Insanity.
He’s got the mad math skills of a genuine Jethro Bodine.
A pump shotgun with an eight round magazine can effectively fire 72 “00” English pea size pellets in less than 5 seconds.
Using Grayson’s tortured logic, that’s equivalent to
576 rounds per minute.
Did Alan quit beating his wife (ex)?
5.56mm
Typical liberal airhead.
Exactly
Maybe a 700-round rate of fire but I’d bet if you tried it the barrel will end up looking like a Popsicle in the Arizona sun.
Also lets not forget the shooter had a security guard license that allowed him to get lots of weapons of different types
a hand held weapon capable of about 12 rounds a second? What are you drinking. Damn gun would melt.
A lot more people would be dead if that was true.
Grayson is a notorious liar and freak.
Dang! Mine must be defective!...............
If they had been indians, 50 of them would have died for every shot.
The cyclic rate of a full auto M16 is at least 700 rds/min.
You’d probably melt the barrel trying to sustain that for a minute.
What a slacker graySOB is. I can easily fire 2,000 rds per/m out of mine. Mag changes are a little challenging. :)
I shot a whole herd of buffalo once with an AR and when I was done with that I took out a whole caribou herd at a distance of over a mile!
-Joe Isuzu-
Actually it’s more than that because regular 00 has 9 pellets
And the spring on that magazine must be huge and hard to load.
Seriously...WhoTF listens to Grayson,he is the poster child for serious mental problems.No Sarc Tag
hahahahahahahahahahaha
You’d probably melt the barrel trying to sustain that for a minute.
M16A1 rifles and most M4 carbines in my experience more generally burn a hole through the stainless steel gas tube before the barrels will melt. It helps some that there's a second or two of intermission every 30 rounds or so, except that there are beta-C hundred-round magazines and even a 225-round *M-SAW* magazine on the market now.
But if youy just dump magazines as quickly as possible, on semi or full, somewhere around Number Fifteen to Number Twenty things will most usually come to a halt.
That's when it's time to pick up another rifle. And, of course, more ammo.
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