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.
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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.
But it is gluten free, so it’s not all bad.
“My M16A1 runs at about 850 RPM”
Sounds about right for full auto according to specs.
Wow!!!! He sorta redefines the word stupid!!!!!
How in the world did this delusional, hateful, pathetic human being ever get elected?
Grayson gives idiots a bad name.
Of course this was not an AR-15 being used, so this whole discussion is as useless as Alan Grayson is.
Lot's of your brothers were killed....
What happened there???
Of course Grayson was there, he lost 50 voters.
Well darn, I musta got cheated, mine won’t do that!!!
There he goes shooting his mouth off at 700 words a minute.
And another liberal nut job gun expert renders his opinion.
Already there are people at my work saying that “maybe we should ban these guns”. These are people who use to be neutral on the subject.
I believe this time the Marxist pols and their “media” lap dogs will be able to convince enough people to put pressure on their elected officials to get something through ... or at the very least ... after the election Oahole will just direct the ATF to place all semi-autos on the “ban” list or list them as NFA weapons.
Remember the VAST majority of voters are idiots and are not like the primary voters who (on the Donald's side) understand the true dangers this country faces.
No, he meant to say 70,000.
He must have misspoken.
What’s worse, though, is that the rounds are armor-piercing, and can go through both sides of an Abrams tank.
When Grayson appeared on the House floor with his famous “Die Faster” posterboard in support of ObamaCare, who knew that he actually borrowed it from the VA?
Mark
It's been many years, but IIRC, in order to use the direct impingement action, Stoner was very specific about the powder that needed to be used (I believe it was ball powder,) as well as specifying that the chamber had to be chrome lined.
Well, the "best and the brightest" in McNamara's DoD decided that the military had all this left-over powder available from WW-II and Korea, and that it would be cheaper to leave the chrome lined chambers off - That, among the other things you mentioned, led to Stoner's masterpiece being a disaster for the troops in Viet Nam.
Mark
If can fire one round a decade it is too offensive for the average liberal doofus.
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