Posted on 06/14/2016 2:30:38 PM PDT by Zakeet
"It feels like a bazooka - and sounds like a cannon."
How do we know AR-15s are the single most lethal weapon on the planet? Because they're SO LOUD. LOUD, YOU HEAR ME?! LOUD!!!!
This is one of those things that must be read to be believed, and no, this was not found in The Onion, amazingly.
New York Daily News reporter Gersh Kuntzman set out to test shoot an AR-15. “It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon,” he writes.
A cannon. And Bazooka? The same bazooka also known as a "recoilless rifle"?
I would like to invite @GershKuntzman to an Aggie football game where we have an actual cannon.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess this dude has never shot a 12 gauge before.
But it just gets worse from there.
Many gun shops turned down our request to fire and discuss the AR-15, a style of tactical machine gun popular with mass killers such as San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook and Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen.
Except for the fact that there WAS NO AR-15 USED IN THE ORLANDO TERRORIST ATTACK.
Kuntzman finally found a taker to let him play with this bazooka-like cannon weapon of mass destruction and then assumed that the gun shop owner, Frank Stelmach, was not like the average gun owner. Why? Because Stelmach doesn't like murder.
But Frank Stelmach of Double Tap Shooting Range and Gun Shop invited me, videographer Michael Sheridan and reporter Adam Shrier to come down. Stelmach is not like many gun lovers. He admires his weaponry, yes, and has difficulty explaining why law-abiding citizens need a gun that can empty a 40-round clip in less than five seconds. But he also hates the idea that "bad people" get a hold of a gun like this and use it to kill without difficulty.
Then we get to the really fun part; the part where Kuntzman describes his brush with barrel shrouded death, which he claims bruised his shoulder and gave him PTSD.
Not in my hands. I've shot pistols before, but never something like an AR-15. Squeeze lightly on the trigger and the resulting explosion of firepower is humbling and deafening (even with ear protection).The recoil bruised my shoulder. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions - loud like a bomb - gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.
If a .223 rifle bruises your shoulder, you should eat more bananas.
For Christ's sakes, I learned to shoot a Ruger 10/22 when I was 8. Then moved up to a .410 shotgun and a .223 when I was a 10-YEAR-OLD-GIRL.
Kuntzman also claims the gun had a fully automatic mode, which any moderately educated citizen knows is not something anyone can walk into their local armory and buy off the shelf. Even our fine Lone Star State legislators questioned this claim:
Lolol: Firing an AR-15 is horrifying, dangerous and very very loud http://nydn.us/1U6V2uW
@KemberleeKaye @85thLegislature - The author also claims he also got the AR15 to fire in "fully automatic mode." Wonder how he did that.
The anti-scary-looking-gun-derangement-syndrome knows no bounds, apparently.
Good grief!
A 30-06 would tear this pansies arm clear off
and blow his ear drums out his nose!
Here Puss Puss Puss, try my Mosin-Nagant M-38. That’ll leave a bruise...
He outta try my Winchester carbine in 45-70
Didn’t have mine firmly seated against my shoulder on the first shot.
Oops. LOL. My shooting glasses met the scope. LOL
LOL
Nicely done!
A squelched down 10 gage shotgun jas a ton more kick than a .22...I mean AR15.
This pussy is lucky he never fired my .22 cal Beeman Kodiak pellet rifle..........LOL!
My .50cal Beowulf is no worse than a 12ga.
The writer is a nancyboy.
Send him to his safe zone.
Back in the day an M16 had full auto. But tests showed that after the first couple of shots, the rest were wasted.
I am not sure if the newer M16s were retrofitted.
The new M4s have a three shot burst.
I love watching this supposed combat movies where the special forces guys are just raking the enemy with automatic fire.
When everyone I’ve known that has been in a situation like that tells me that they only shoot like that to cover a retreat—otherwise its aim, shoot, aim, shoot.
In the years that followed, a lot of guys put their Model 29 .44 magnums up for sale, and with almost a full box of shells.
Jessica Lynch did not complain.
My 458 Magnum has less bight than his stupid comments.
Don’t you know facts don’t matter in these situations??
And there are adult snowflakes.
Horseshiite! I spent 23 years in the Marine Corps. My TO weapons over that period were the M16A1,M16A2, and the M16A4. I own an AR15. None of these weapons have a harsh recoil. With foam earplugs you hear nothing more than a chunk sound. This guy is a pussy and a liar.
New York Daily News journalist: Firing an AR-15 gave me PTSD http://washex.am/238gAwQ
What would he have said about a Garand? A niclear weapon?
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