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.
I had one of the original Thompson Center Contenders with several barrels, all of them 10 inch. Among them was a .44 mag and a .22 mag.
Every time I fired the .44 it felt like someone hit my elbow with a rubber hammer. It was much worse than model 29 or Super Blackhawk.
I really wanted the .22 mag barrel to work but the one I got was mediocre at best. Actually that is being too kind, it grouped around 4 inches at 25 yards and that with a scope.
I eventually traded it off and for some stupid reason traded for it back a year or two later. I guess I was hoping that it really wasn’t that bad but it was.
I remember that the M-79 didn’t have that much of a kick. Less than a 12 guage shotgun.
Never shot a .308 or a 30-06 I guess, either. The poor little dumpling would really faint if he ever fired a .45 handgun or an S&W .40 cal I reckon.
M1A is a different beast altogether. That thing shoots like a cushioned chair compared to a more sporting 8 pound hunting rifle thwacking you. :-)
Went to the range with two other Jewish guys. One had an M1A that he hadn’t used in years. All three of us put 5-6 rounds apiece in a 5” circle with iron sights at 100 Yds. Wow. Not a miss in the lot. Beautiful gun.
Most of what I have is 7.5. May be a few 8. Most of it is 3-inch, with a few 2.75.
Some day if I ever have money again I’ll be looking at the other, thanks.
I have a neighbor who weighs 100 lbs. soaking wet.
She can put a hole in a 1” dia. bullseye at 100 yards shhoting an AR-15 chambered for .223
And the cluck that wrote this story is terrified at his session with an AR-15?
What a wimp.
Yeah I panicked and let my .45 go needing money. Actually all I had. Got a few things back (different). A couple I’m real sorry I let them go. Oh well. I got my 9mm’s replaced, pretty much Need to learn how to operate that Mossberg properly. For now, she’s just in the safe.
wow
My wife weighs 93 lbs, 4 ft 10 inches tall and shoots her 12 gauge double just fine.
Would he like to drop a couple rounds in my Desert Eagle 50? How bout a .444 lever action? 10 gauge 3 1/2 goose loads?
I’d pay his plane fare just to video the results. LOL.
Love mine. National Match model. Glass bedded it myself. Topped with with a Gen 1 range finding scope. Smacked an old 4 x 8 cast iron griddle at 400 yards every time.
A guy offered me $2,500 for it one day at the range. I turned him down flat.
You’d spit if I told what I paid for it. All I’ll say is thank God for painful divorces.
Best,
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Good thing it wasn’t a 12 ga. or he’d be in the hospital.
I saw a similar demonstration live, except the male but the buttstock over his groin. BANG! And no flinch from the man.
This reporter is lying.
Shell casing flying past his face means he shot left handed, or he is lying.
The sound being so loud means the range owner neglected to give ear plugs or muffs, or he is lying.
The lack of recoil in an AR-15 means the has a serious physical ailment that makes him bruise when a butterfly lands on him, or he is lying.
Guess which way I am leaning...
LOL!
“Actually, it is 5.56mm. Just sayin’.”
Minor point but but well taken. I understand.
It’s a wonder the 3 round burst didn’t dislocate my shoulder if he was beaten black and blue by his experience.
Divorce is about the second best thing that I ever made happen!
You must not work as a reporter for a living.
Or work as a cop. One said “45mm” in describing a .45 caliber handgun.
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