Alan Grayson claims AR-15s can fire ‘700 rounds in a minute’ after Orlando attack

Washington Times ^ | June 13, 2016 | Douglas Ernst

[litehaus]

You OWN a Metal Storm Product, can I borrow it? Just for a MINUTE !!!

[skimbell]

The left is truly hopeless.

I was reading some stuff on DU this morning and one of the self proclaimed "reasonable" gun grabbers was going on at length about why anyone would need an AK-15 in the first place.

I believe that this qualifies as example of Perfect Stupidity.

[Mr. Mojo]

Mr. Grayson, a Democrat, was asked about the massacre and soon turned his attention to the AR-15 rifle.

Very quickly, I'm sure. Anything to avoid the the real problem -- Muslims.

[hal ogen]

I’d like to add: Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!

[NorthMountain]

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.

There's a youtube upthread showing just that. The handguard is burning like a kerosene lantern, and the rifle suddenly becomes a single shot ....

[USMCPOP]

Fast AR-15 shooting - 10 rounds in 1.39 seconds. That’s about 430 rounds per minute.

World’s Fastest Shooter vs Bump Fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddPTyoV-Irc

Just Google “online metronome” and enter a number. When I scratch my head with my index finger, it’s about 200 beats per minute.

[skimbell]

Both times.

[Mr. K]

Alan Grayson is such a piece of $h!t that even Harry Reid wants him to lose...

[LeoWindhorse]

too bad Greyson was not partying in his favorite nightclub on Sunday night

[Ouderkirk]

One assumes that there is sufficient ammo in a belt-feed situation. The site below says 700 to 950 Rnds/min.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m4-specs.htm

But yes, the M4 isn’t built to handle sustained fire rates like that. It’s a burst weapon at best and with a 30 rnd mag, (100, if you get one of those poly ones, which from what I’ve read don’t work especially well).

I would think that after one 700 round minute that the whole weapon would be liquid.

[archy]

You’d probably melt the barrel trying to sustain that for a minute.

Meltdown: M16 lower, commercial Anderson upper.

[1Old Pro]

If I had a nickel for the times they referenced his weapon as “automatic” yesterday I’d be rich.

[Myrddin]

Illiterate, anti-gun gas bag. A heavy barrel M16 is rated:
12–15 rounds/min sustained
45–60 rounds/min semi-automatic
700–950 rounds/min cyclic

Witness reports and actual victims support a more likely scenario of a full-auto 9mm sub-machinegun. Multiple magazine reloads. A surviving victim took 12 rounds. Believable with 9mm, but not with 5.56 NATO ammo.

[Brookhaven]

...then he said Guam would tip over.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The word is ignoranus.

It's ignoramus. Five online dictionaries and Bugs Bunny can't be wrong.

[Myrddin]

Look up Glock 17 9mm full-auto. Watch a Youtube video.

[thorvaldr]

It was 3 hours before SWAT finally breached. He could havve killed 50 people with a big knife in 3 hours.

[SandRat]

Even the Thompson .45 Cal Tommy Gun can’t fire that high of a rate of fire.

[so_real]

Proving once again he is an idiot. If he could do seven 30-round magazine changes at full-auto in under a minute for a total of 210 rounds, I'd be impressed. Semi-auto civilian issue? Seriously? I'm sure he thinks what he sees in the movies is real.

[shotgun]

He also said that they are easy to convert to fully auto by searching the web for DIY videos.