Posted on 01/18/2023 7:52:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
FOX News personality Geraldo Rivera backed President Biden’s push for an “assault weapons” ban and said that the “AR” in AR-15 stands for “automatic rifle” on Tuesday’s The Five.
Newsweek quoted Rivera telling the co-hosts, “I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, there is no legitimate reason … to have an AR-15.”
He described the AR-15 as a “machine gun” that people own in order to make them feel “macho.”
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Stands for ArmaLite....the company that invented it.
Lemme guess...Jerry rivers didn’t serve because of “childhood asthma”...just like The Big Guy.
Ya beat me by 90 seconds
“...in order to make them feel “macho.”
The anti-gun radicals have been saying this for over sixty years about handguns. Now suddenly they are after rifles?
The Army sold Army surplus weapons to US citizens for 170 years with no problems. Now selling non army grade weapons is a problem?
I suppose the armalite folks might have something to say about that, Jerry Rivers
I bet he’s one of those journalists that thinks heart attacks and cardiac arrests are the same thing, and that men can have periods and get pregnant.
Also, people do hunt with ARs. They are very popular for feral hogs and coyotes.
If you dressed up an AR-15 to look like a M-1 Garand then everything should be okey dokey. Of course then Geraldo would accuse you of trying to be Audie Murphy.
Absolutely right. ArmaLite and the majority stock holder in those days was Lyndon Johnson or his wife. One or the other if I remember correctly. That is one reason the Army got the contract for the M-16. The M-14 was a superior rife in my opinion.
“Ya beat me by 90 seconds”
That, and about $500, will get me a Whorealdo Full Auto Sniper Revolver Machine Gun that can shoot down armored helicopters from 5 miles away. :>)
Germans first two letters are used like he said. For example the MG-34 is Machine Gun 1934 model. MP-43 is Machine Pistol model 1943.
He can’t be that ignorant, but is counting on just that in his audience.
The sad thing is there was no one on the 5 who was able to refute his claim. They all need to be educated about what is an “assault” rifle, an automatic rifle, and a semi-automatic rifle. Sad.
I have an M1, that’s a lot better than your machine gun because it’s a tank. After all isn’t that what M1 stands for?
Sort of a pointless exercise, because the issue is depriving people of the right to bear arms.
....well said....! could not have said it better...it is truly amazing how stoooooopid these people are...this PoS we have for our (current, until Toes-Up Harris gets to the Oval Ofice) President keeps yapping about another assault weapons [sic] ban.....as we used to say in the (good old days...) military, these people don’t know s**t from Shinola....
Reminds me of when O’reilly was bitching in 2004 that the Assault Weapons Ban was about machine guns. Morons.
I chose to go the route of the mini 14 because I like wood stocked rifles. Fun to shoot and very little recoil.
They ignore the 9MM handgun, the favorite weapon of gangbangers and criminals. More people are killed with a 9MM than an AR of any type.
Most people purchase an AR to protect themselves from people with 9mm’s.
I concede!!
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