CNN Embarrassed While Trying to Give Viewers ‘Up-Close Look at AR-15'

newsbusters.org ^ | 2/28/2018 | Randy Hall

[rktman]

A lot of people will buy this just because it's cool, and they want to appear like soldiers. If you're a gun collector or a gun aficionado and you want an AR-15, you can certainly buy one, and you should be able to buy one. The problem is when it gets in the hands of the wrong people.

In my personal opinion, you have to receive a whole lot of training to use this weapon. And this weapon in the wrong hands can be more dangerous than most weapons because of its capability to do a lot of damage in a short period of time and be irreversible.

[OldMissileer]

Experience in Army combat arms as an Air Force officer?

Probably a Joint Billet at the Pentagon but that does not mean he has ever fired a weapon.

Once I traded my enlisted stripes for the shiny officer crap the only reason I got to fire any weapons was because of my duties. Many Air Force officers, and this guy was a staff officer, never had to qualify. At least the enlisted troops had to do a day at the range during Basic Training.

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