A local female news reporter reported that a student brought a 380 caliber shotgun to school. Later a male reporter corrected her and said it was a 30 caliber pistol.
With buckshot loads shotguns are used to kill deer at ranges up to 100 yards. There is a reason, that clearly escapes the minds of journalists, that it is called buckshot.
The shot gun is more lethal than an AR in close..Just goes to show another moron so called news organization with its lack of knowledge.
The author is an idiot. It's obvious he's shot neither a 'high powered' AR15 rifle nor a handgun. AR15 rifles and semi-automatic handguns fire at the same rate: how fast can you pull the trigger?
The most deadly firearm in the country is a .22
Less Lethal, except of course for the 10 dead people. Ignorant twits.
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BS and lies. I can fire several of my handguns every bit as fast as I can fire my AR-15. Oh...and an AR-15 is not a “high powered” rifle. It is quite low powered as rifles go. Your grandpappy’s 30-06 absolutely blows away a 5.56mm Nato standard round. So does the standard rifle round of EVERY major warring power in WWII a full 3 generations ago.
This is typical of the ignorant sensationalist crap we see in the media. One needs read no further than the first paragraph to see that the rest is not worth reading. The writer has no clue what he’s talking about.
Less lethal? Tell that to the ten dead.
Perhaps Mr. Morefield should tell that to the DEAD FOLKS.
I have both 12 gauge Rem 870 and 5.56 AR..
I am very familiar with the capabilities of both, and as any hunter would know, for close range the 12 gauge is unequaled in devastation. Hands down the most deadly per round on a scale I would estimate as three to ten times the wound channel.
Rifles have strengths over shotguns and they are more effective for the more long range shots.
Again, any hunter would know this, but the average gun illiterate can be lied to in order to advance the anti gun agenda which would eventually ban all firearms, not just ARs.
My .38 is as lethal as any other gun, just takes a good shooter. Want more carnage use a larger patterned weapon, it’s why we also have a 12 guage.
My late husband took down a reared female Rattler from over a yard away with a .22 hand gun he and his uncle were target practicing shooting water jugs in the uncle’s several acre large FL backyard. Both USAF Veterans. Both Farm Boys who if you didn’t bring the protein home, you ate meatless meals.