Posted on 06/15/2016 2:15:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the hours after Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando night club, Chief John Mina of the Orlando Police Department said the gunman’s weapons included a pistol and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.”
On Monday night, officials clarified that the rifle Omar Mateen used in the shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle.
While aesthetically similar to and just as lethal as an AR-15, the MCX is internally a different beast, thus all but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. Yet while the weapon is different, the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it.
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As Bob Owens from the blog “Bearing Arms” points out, the MCX is a modular rifle designed to be able to change between a variety of calibers and “otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.”
Originally designed for U.S. Special Operations forces, the MCX was built from the “ground up” to be lightweight and short, and it accepts “a broad array of accessories, enabling you to build a complete weapon system for any scenario or environment,” Sig Sauer’s website says.
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Correction, we’ve been wrong for four days, but never mind.
And it is not an assault rifle either.
Facts used to matter to journalists with integrity
That’s some serious pretzel-twisting in order to try to put a fine point on the fact they were wrong. From the same journalism class that brought us Dan Rather’s “it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s the seriousness of the charges.”
Radical Islam. Say it.
The short version: “We lied, but it doesn’t matter.”
It’s not Radical, it’s Pure Islam.
How many rounds in what time period can each one fire. How do they compare?
As of 2013, the WaPo’s stylebook used the traditional definition of an “assault rifle” (selective fire, detachable magazine, intermediate cartridge). Someone ought to ask the WaPo’s ombudsman when the stylebook definition of an “assault rifle” changed.
So, the reporting that an AR-15 was used was fake but accurate. There seems to be a lot of that going around these days.
Someone said they can fire 700 rounds AT ONCE.
Can it fire 700 rounds a minute like an AR-15?
LOL I just posted that. It was moonbat Alan Grayson.
I showed a friend of mine two pictures yesterday. One was my Remington 700. The other was my AR15. The AR has a red dot and a ten round magazine. My Remington has a scope and a sling.
I asked her which was more dangerous.
She said the AR because it was an assault weapon.
Then I showed her the rounds. Clearly a 308 win is a more powerful cartridge. She thought for sure that would have come out of the “machine gun.”
Then I told her I could cycle the bolt action pretty fast. Fast enough that in the bar scenario the bullets would go through two or three patrons, killing at least the first two.
She countered with, the other one is a machine gun it would fire more.
I laughed and told her that no one (practically no one) could legally have one of those. And if you were caught with one you were in huge trouble.
Three or four minutes of education did not change her mind. But it did show her not to be so quick to jump to conclusions. We can agree to disagree about gun control—but it is important to educate people.
The guy that said that should be flayed.
>>It’s not Radical, it’s Pure Islam.
Radical means “to the root”. Pure anything is radical anything.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=radical
Jourolists are not bothered to get fcts right anymore.
They call it an automatic weapon too, and it is not.
They quote liberal politicians incorrectly calling it an automatic weapon, and do not correct the quote.
They incorrectly call magazines clips, and dont care they keep getting this weong for decades they have been writing about guns.
How can we even take them seriously ablut anything gun related when they show they dont even know the simplest terms or cant even reference the proper gun in question?
“They incorrectly call magazines clips, and don’t care they keep getting this wrong for decades they have been writing about guns.”
I’m guessing in one article one time they wrote about banning certain magazines, and they were overwhelmed with people writing in on “How dare you take my People Magazine away from me - that’s my First Amendment right!!!”.
It is a current rifle design, there are many that are not AR15s but operate in a similar manner, much like a Winchester 30-30 and a Marlin 30-30 are both lever guns, but are not the same. They are 2 different rifles from the same generation of gun evolution.
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