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Piers Morgan Shocked By ‘Unbelievable Power’ After Firing Assault Rifles At Texas Gun Range
Mediaite ^ | February 4, 2013 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 02/04/2013 9:24:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President Obama recently proved that he shoots skeet, and now Piers Morgan can say he’s shot an AR-15. Morgan traveled to Texas today to find out what it’s like to shoot the gun “used in the last five mass shootings in America,” including Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Morgan interviewed the owner of a Houston gun range, as he took his turns firing various version of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine. His aim wasn’t perfect, but as Morgan said, “once I got the hang of it and began pressing the trigger faster and faster, it was just firing very, very fast.”

He proceeded to shoot an AR-15 that had been modified from semi-automatic to fully automatic, a procedure that is illegal, but as the range owner explained, fairly easy for individuals to do with parts that can be purchased legally. Morgan said it felt “unbelievably powerful.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: awb; banglist; piersmorgan; texas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d rather he keep using that versus his birth name (Piers Stefan O’Meara).

Now we know that he’s so weak, a loud cough will scare him to death.


21 posted on 02/04/2013 9:48:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SERKIT

{sigh}

No, it was the one putting .223 ammo in all the bodies for the coroner to find. That’s been debunked so many times I can’t believe there are fools still peddling that line.


22 posted on 02/04/2013 9:48:21 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: LukeL

I’ve got a .338 he’d enjoy. Nothing like scope bite.


23 posted on 02/04/2013 9:49:04 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a waste of 50 BMG!


24 posted on 02/04/2013 9:49:31 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He proceeded to shoot an AR-15 that had been modified from semi-automatic to fully automatic, a procedure that is illegal, but as the range owner explained, fairly easy for individuals to do with parts that can be purchased legally.

Really? So the "range owner" admitted to being a felon as he lied about it being "fairly easy" to convert an AR to auto fire?

25 posted on 02/04/2013 9:51:00 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, actually.

Or how about...

Piers Stefan Pog-mo-thoin


26 posted on 02/04/2013 9:51:00 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: G Larry

Yeah, I’d have saddled him up with the 30.06 to start with. And get him to hold it like Obama does in that picture the White Hut has been circulating. Morgan could use a little medical leave.


27 posted on 02/04/2013 9:52:30 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: G Larry

Let him try this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VVOH7Ep_8w


28 posted on 02/04/2013 9:54:26 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: SERKIT

They are unbelievably powerful. You don’t even have to fire them to kill people.
The media doesn’t even try to look objective anymore.


29 posted on 02/04/2013 9:54:40 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Chasaway

Or just give him an old 8mm Mauser.


30 posted on 02/04/2013 9:57:03 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Or civilize him with a Krag.


31 posted on 02/04/2013 9:58:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: LukeL
Try a 30.06

As fast as he can pull the trigger until it goes ping.

32 posted on 02/04/2013 9:59:59 PM PST by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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To: dagogo redux
Bet you would have a flinch factor to overcome for the 2nd shot.
33 posted on 02/04/2013 10:00:48 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

34 posted on 02/04/2013 10:01:40 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: dagogo redux

Now here is a real man and his rifle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6YKsDuV8lk


35 posted on 02/04/2013 10:02:50 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: SERKIT

Nope, that was an initial erroneous report. The coroner said that all the victims were shot with 5.56mm rounds. He did have two pistols on him (I think) but apparently never used them, unless he used one to off himself.

}:-)4


36 posted on 02/04/2013 10:04:11 PM PST by Moose4 (...and walk away.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Give the wimp a Russian Mosin Nagant to shoot and let him understand what real power is.
37 posted on 02/04/2013 10:06:34 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: logic101.net

“I’d like to see the wimp shoot my slug gun (12 ga).”

I wanted to see the sphincter fire the pistol gripped 12 ga. pump. That would have been funny.


38 posted on 02/04/2013 10:08:07 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Olog-hai

Piers Morgan reinvents himself

Morgan exited amid scandal because he’d been duped into publishing faked photos of British troops urinating on Iraqi detainees. His Fleet Street rivals gleefully called it “Wee-gate.”

“What the hell am I going to do now?” he asked himself.

He gathered up his mates and drowned his sorrows in liberal doses of alcohol. He collected a healthy severance and a fat advance for his tell-all “diaries.” He told anyone who would listen it would take him five years slaving away as a newspaper editor to make that much money.

And then he set about reinventing Piers Morgan.

Now, at age 45, Morgan is again being cast as the boy wonder. Tonight, he takes over CNN’s 9 p.m. time slot, vacated in December by Larry King.

The hyperbolic Oprah Winfrey, his first guest on “Piers Morgan Tonight,” said their taped chat was her toughest interview in 20 years. “We all just went, ‘Woo, what was that?’ I’m not kidding. I was surprised,” she told reporters at a red carpet event for the launch of her new network, OWN.

“Of course I’m a little apprehensive,” Morgan said of his show’s debut. “But the adrenalin’s flowing.” He said he’s confident but added, “We’ll all be watching the numbers.”

If you, like many Americans, are asking “Who is this guy?” you’re about to find out.

“He’s a newspaper guy from central casting,” said Robert Thompson, who teaches courses in media and pop culture at Syracuse University. “What he was doing in newspapers is something that translates nicely into our current multimedia culture. He’s got a personality for television.”

Piers Stefan O’Meara was born in Sussex, England, in 1965, the oldest of four children. His father died when he was very young, and he took his stepfather’s last name, Pughe-Morgan. Later, he shortened it to Morgan because it made for a better byline.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-16/entertainment/piers.morgan.profile_1_newspaper-editor-culture-fleet-street?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ


39 posted on 02/04/2013 10:11:00 PM PST by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't be taken in by this pompous a$$. He is just practicing the Simon Cowell school of journalism by being the obnoxious Brit you love to hate. It is the same technique practiced by pro wrestlers and Muhammad Ali early in his career. He says the most offensive and obnoxious things you can imagine and waits for Americans to tune into his show to see his a$$ kicked.

This self promotion drives his ratings up and he laughs all the way to the bank. Deny him his attention and starve the beast.

40 posted on 02/04/2013 10:15:28 PM PST by Polynikes (Hakkaa Palle)
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