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(06-16-2022, 10:07 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: There's so much misinformation, talk by the uninformed, and outright lies out there about firearms it's not even funny. Like you say they believe AR 15's are the most powerful weapons ever invented and they possess some magical devastating killing power.

I'll never forget an article by Bonnie Erbe back during the D.C. sniper tragedy, early 00's. That article had so much misinformation in it, it was comical. She said "the AR 15 in .223 was the preferred weapon of snipers." "The killing power of this weapon is way beyond anything else." Just on and on. Her article made about as much sense as me trying to give a lecture to doctors on open heart surgery. But people eat it up and quote it as truth.

People believe the movies. They see an actor dive behind a couch and the villain is 8 feet away with a full auto AK and he dumps a whole mag into the couch and the hero pops up, untouched, with a 9mm handgun and it knocks the villain out into the other room with one shot. Because you know that fabric and wood of a couch will totally stop the 7.62x39 round from point blank range. And the 9mm has the killing power of the 454 casull in the right hands.

I could go on and on but I'll shut up.

(06-16-2022, 03:21 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Remember the tv reporter who went to the range and fired an AR, then wrote about the massive recoil and muzzle blast that left him with PTSD? You can't make that crap up. Imagine my disappointment when I fired my first AR-15 at night, after watching "Predator" with Arnold's AR throwing  5 foot flames out of each port from the flash suppressor. 

I don't see what any of this has to do with gun control regulations.  You can cry about "misinformation" all you want but the fact is that AR-15's were designed to kill people and we have all seen a lot of people killed by them.

I agree that the big issue is not banning AR-15's.  But it is kind of strange to hear people act like AR-15s are not used by a lot of mass killers for the specific reason that they were designed specifically for mass killing.