>> “‘Popping’ doesn’t sound like an AR-15 going off. More like a .22 pistol” <<
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No kidding. My head hurts for hours after shooting the .357, even with the muffs.
I don’t know anyone that would describe it as a “pop.”
In extreme stress, it can indeed pop rather than boom. On the range it might still be deafening. Likewise, a shooter running a 12 gauge recoil might feel like a 22. Stress of places like that reduces what you take in.
Likewise, the 357 that beats you up on the range will barely be noticed when you are shooting it for keeps. Kinda cool really. Works that way for many many people.
AR-15s are like the thunder of a bolt hitting a tree in a field about 100 feet from you - with ear protection in place.
From the crap reporting I’ve seen there was a rifle in the car, but he did his shooting with the pistols.
I used to think that the general quality of news reporting was uniquely bad in the US, and I’ve thought that ever since I started travelling internationally.
Then I read about the press coverage of Germany’s invasion of France in 1940. You want to talk about fraud.
I’d say the general quality of press coverage today is about on the same par. The decline of civilization is on, and accelerating, and you’d never know it reading a newspaper. That newspapers are going belly up is evidence of the market’s invisible hand at work.