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.
A .44 magnum doesn’t bother me but there is no way I would fire one of the .500 mags.
If I still handloaded it would be a different matter. Loaded down to maybe 1200 fps with a medium weight bullet should be about right. It would be a nice truck gun.
Gersh Kuntzman - Is this some kind of joke?
The M4 Carbine shoots semi-auto or three-shot burst. The more recent M4A1 variant ditches the burst-fire parts and fires semi-auto or full-auto.
DOD has swung back and forth on this for years - the M16A1 was full-auto, the A2 was 3-shot burst, the A3 was full-auto.
Part of this pattern may be procurement for the different branches of the military. IIRC, the Army liked 3-shot burst but the USMC didn't care for it.
To me, 3-shot burst seemed to turn your 30-shot rifle into a 10-shot rifle.
Not only is it loud—It’s black, too.
Black is a scary color to little kids.
but there is no way I would fire one of the .500 mags....Makes you a better shot. You don’t want to do it the second time.
I’ve got a Mossberg Maverick, dirt cheap from Walmart a few years ago and couldn’t pass it up. Put an ATI top folding stock on it (it has a trigger guard safety) and saddle for extra shells. Fits nicely in a Prince double racket carrying case.
A feature I like on it is the `second safety’ on the left side of the gun, behind the trigger guard & under the serial number, that you have to push to rack the slide.
Someone who doesn’t know about it, and maybe shouldn’t be using it, won’t be able to chamber a shell.
The daily news is written for morons.
They found the three rounds was a mistake and are eliminating it.
I had a one-piece Pachmayr on a Browning 9mm and it was nice but went back to the wood stocks. Dad gave me the gun that way, reminds me of him.
Agree. In fact the Drill Sgt would make you fire it while pressed against your crotch to show the lack of kick it had
Did the reporter go home to Mommie top take care of his ouchie? What a wuss.
Mine’s a 500. Maybe that’s where they got the price from, lol. It was $517 at WM when it wasn’t on sale.
Some tell me to buy 00; friend of mine likes 3 or 4. I’ve only got birdshot for it. I understand that’s not the best for protection but it’s what they had at the time.
Amazing, these drama queens. Bet he couldn’t handle my Crosman 760 I had as a kid, LOL.
That was my first thought. You can empty the entire clip (excuse me, magazine) in an M-16, and it feels like getting a mild massage.
A FEMINIZED JEW HURT HIS ARM???? OMG!!!!
I have a .300 Weatherby mag he can try for comparison.
Recoil from a .223 that bruised his shoulder??? What the hell is his shoulder made of? Wet spaghetti?
AR-15s have shoulder bruising recoil? Really? I never noticed. They are loud; I grant him that.
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