Posted on 09/08/2018 8:27:03 AM PDT by PROCON
On September 5 gun control activist David Hogg suggested AR-15s cannot be used for self-defense because they shoot further than handguns.
He made this suggestion via a tweet which he sent in response Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony that AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are used for “self-defense.”
Kavanaugh’s full statement was that “handguns and semi-automatic rifles are weapons used for hunting and for self-defense.”
But Hogg isolated the words “self-defense” and tried to make a point:
David Hogg
✔ @davidhogg111
The effective range of an AR-15 is 1600 feet for comparison your typical handgun is 75 feet if you’re shooting somebody from 1600 feet away you’re not defending yourself...
...you’re hunting.
Make the 2004 Massachusetts assault weapons ban federal law. #BanAssaultWeapons
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Head full of popcorn.
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Elmer Keith used to make 800 yard shots with a .38 snub nose revolver. You just have to put enough arch on the bullet.
Don’t forget the guy who used an AR-15 to successfully defend himself against a drive by shooting.
And the guy in Texas who used one to stop the church shooter.
If brains were lard, he couldn’t grease a skillet.
He’s a moron. There is no law that says you can’t use an AR15 at short ranges and he completely glosses over the hunting reference.
I hit a beer keg once at around 200 yards with a 45 Taurus.
There’s video somewhere.
Pop.....wait for it....wait for it....Ting.
I was there, but I believe Elmer did it more.
“Part of USMC rifle qualification is just that. Shooting from the 500-yard line.”
I did it with a rack grade M16-A1.
“The “why” is simple. So we can kill people 500 yards away.”
Yep.
Semper Fi.
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Defensive gun use
His face looks so weird. If you cover up each side and look at them separately, it looks like two entirely different people.
The 600-yard stage of the National Service Rifle Match competition, held annually at Camp Perry, Ohio annually, and replicated in many states elsewhere, is routinely shot with a match-tuned variant of the M16A2 rifle, usually on an AR-15 lower receiver.
I've generally shot it with the M1 Garand rifle of WWII since my first try in 1962. But I've used the M16 version, the M16 or a version thereof being the standard Army rifle since 1967, and for the last 15 years I find my scores get higher with the lighter and lesser recoiling rifle. I'm getting older, but not so old I can't run my Garand; it's just that I shoot the course a little better if I do it twice in the afternoon with the *little rifle* after twice in the morning with the 11-pound Garand.
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