Posted on 06/14/2016 4:09:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
No, Rep. Alan Grayson—an AR-15 rifle cannot shoot 700 rounds per minute. And CNN’s Erin Burnett did nothing to press him on this outrageous claim during her on-camera interview with him Sunday. Now, the AR-15 wasn’t the rifle used in the Orlando attack, which left 49 people dead in the worst mass shooting in American history. It also was a likely terrorist attack, but let’s discuss these remarks by Grayson because it shows how the anti-gun Left has no clue what they’re talking about.
Alan Grayson claims AR-15 can fire 700 rounds per minute, which is ridiculous
“If I may just say this one thing further, if he were who he was, and he was was not able to buy a weapon that shoots off 700 rounds in a minute, a lot of those people would still be alive. That’s exactly right. If somebody like him had nothing worse to deal with than a Glock pistol, which was his other weapon today. 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.”
“You’re right about that. Thank you very much,” said Burnett.
This AR must've been broken cause it definitely didn't shoot 700 BPM. pic.twitter.com/cKKgOowkkL— Julia Porterfield (@JK_Porterfield) June 14, 2016
Over at INJO, Joe Perticone aptly noted how a) the AR-15 rifle isn’t an assault rifle; b) AR isn’t short for “assault rifle"; and c) the AR-15 isn’t as powerful as a hunting rifle, though it can be chambered in over 30 calibers. Mostly, these rifles are chambered to fire .223/5.56 rounds.
1. An assault rifle has selective fire.
That means that the user can toggle between at least two settings, semiautomatic and automatic.
The AR-15 is a gas powered semiautomatic rifle, meaning one pull of the trigger corresponds to only one round being fired.
In contrast, the M16 and sometimes the M4, which are the United States military’s small arms rifle of choice, do fire automatically. The M16 and M4 also allow a three-round burst option, which is also not possible on an AR-15.
[…]
The AR-15 is not that powerful when compared to common hunting rifles. A .223 round is often too small to take down large game like deer and elk.
In many cases, the .223 is prohibited for hunting certain game. Because of its lack of power, it might not fully kill the animal, leading to suffering.
[…]
Another misconception is that the “AR” in AR-15 is an abbreviation for “assault rifle.” It is not. The “AR” is an abbreviation for “ArmaLite Rifle,” after the company that designed the firearm.
The AR-15 isn’t new either. Its first iteration was seen in the late 1950s. In the video below, an automatic AR-15 (so, one that isn’t readily available for civilians, requires an ATF tax stamp for ownership, a lengthy background check, and your name and weapon added into federal database) is fired until the point of malfunction. The person in the video could get off 830 rounds before the barrel failed—and this is not even the rifle used in the attack.
a href=https://youtu.be/BSizVpfqFtw>ULTIMATE AR-15 MELTDOWN!
He warns that the heat from the barrel could set off rounds prematurely. The gas tube can be melted, pretty much this is one of the things you don’t want to do to your AR-15, which liberals don’t know because again—they have no clue what they’re talking about. It’s not the safest thing either.
....and unbelievable they all missed him
my neighbor says, “I’ll take 3!”
The stupid is strong with this one.
According to Alan’s ex wife, so can his fist
But he needs it to talk from!
The designers who created this gun must be amazing! Probably wizards.
A more vile human being I know not.
Alan is a dufus.
IIRC there have been tests of semi-auto fire where people have gotten to pretty high rates of fire with semiauto ARs.
I think 300+ rpm.
And then those bump-fire systems that come pretty close to full auto rpm. I’ve seen estimates up there at 700rpm or more.
Not that this has all that much to do with deadliness in a civilian context. How much would full auto affect homicide rates ? I don’t think it will, at all.
The sad thing is that a lot of anti-gun libtards believe every word.
That is absolutely false. They fire tray beams..
I will bet that some libtard somewhere will believe that an AR-15 fires photon torpedoes.
Grayson’s a f***ing moron. What he says has about as much validity as the sound that comes out of a flatulent jackass’s rear end.
And here’s an article that says NO AR15 was used in Orlando.
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/06/14/fact-check-ar-15-wasnt-used-orlando-wouldnt-mattered-anyway/
Somebody’s lying.
They haven’t locked this guy up in the booby hatch yet?
The gun is black and scary. That’s all they need to know.
Obama told Grayson that the rifle had many clips in it, so it MUST be able to fire 700 rpm...
Hey, Alan?
Boo!
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