Posted on 09/26/2022 6:02:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s claim that AR-15s fire bullets at a velocity that is five times higher than that of other guns is being shot down by people who know guns.
Biden repeated the claim Friday in a speech to the National Education Association teachers union, even though it has been repeatedly debunked. Several rifles and even some handguns fire bullets at a higher velocity than the 2,700-3,100 feet per second of AR-15s.
“The speed of the bullet is five times that that comes out of the muzzle of most weapons,” Biden said, describing the popular hunting rifle as a “weapon of war.”
Although some mass shooters, including the Uvalde and Buffalo killers from earlier this year, have used AR-15-style rifles, most murders are committed with handguns. Advocates of more restrictive gun control laws describe AR-15s and AK-47s as “assault rifles,” although there is no technical definition for the term.
Biden has often repeated the claim that AR-15s shoot bullets at higher velocities than other guns. Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that Biden had “bungled the statistic” after he made the same claim in late August.
“Biden was clearly wrong in his statement this week,” the Post wrote.
Biden has made other false claims about guns and the Second Amendment. In May of this year, he claimed that when the Second Amendment was enacted, it did not allow people to possess certain weapons.
“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” he said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
Historians pointed out that there was no truth to the claim.
AR-15s do fire bullets at high velocities, but nowhere near what Biden claimed, according to ballistics experts. When they exit the barrel, AR-15 bullets are traveling at about twice the speed of bullets fired from a typical handgun.
The White House is pushing hard for new gun control measures ahead of the midterm elections. Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on assault rifles.
“Do you know what an assault weapon is?” Harris said in May. “It was designed for a specific purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society.”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote on his blog that banning one particular type of gun would be problematic for courts if it cannot be established that the particular gun is no more powerful than others.
“There are good-faith arguments for gun control, including arguments that the Second Amendment does not create an individual right to bear arms,” Turley wrote. “We should continue to have that worthy debate but we should follow the rule of the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan that ‘everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.’”
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Read and heed my tagline. The democrats let black people murder white people at will and then come for white people’s weapons so we can not defend ourselves from the dark skinned democrat party’s assaisins.
Leftists deliberately fudge up gun stats, because they want experts to correct them. Why? Because, they want to point the finger at the gun expert who actually knows the specifics about muzzle velocity and other intricate details about guns. They want to show their supporters how ridiculous it is that any average citizen would know this information in the first place and that these type of gun nuts are dangerous people.
I really want an AR that fires a slug at 6000 feet per second!
The President lies!
More of how gun control is more of that news media driven sort of thing as opposed to actually dealing with violent crime and reducing the criminal and tragic (suicides and accidents) misuse of firearms.
Biden is a pathological liar. His motto is “Why tell the truth when a lie sounds so much better?”
“no place in a civil society.”
Irrelevant to the 2nd Amendment to begin with. However my local police walk around with plate armor and m4’s. If they feel that is a bare minimum requirement just to get them through their day, I have serious concerns about the “civility” of society.
The man speaking these absurdities is the same man who is commander and chief of an army that recently adopted a new service rifle because apparently 5.56 doesn’t quite so the job. This is the same man who will also insist that a person would need a jet fighter to take resist a tyrannical government, yet a shirtless man in a buffalo hat and a gaggle of other unarmed and unorganized people almost literally managed to overthrow the U.S. government on January 6th.
Back in the 80s when I served in the Army National Guard the M16s we carried were classified as "assault rifles" which was a kind of "small arm". The term that was made up years later by gun control advocates is "assault weapon" not "assault rifle".
I’ve been reloading my ammo since the 60’s. 223 factory loads are around 3000 fps. Changing powder loads or types you can improve the velocity. Pistol ammo is typically under 2000 fps. Some pistols are made for rifle ammo, but velocities are limited because of the short barrel lengths (the powder doesn’t burn completely)
I double loaded a 218 Bee round and fired it in my Thompson Center Contender pistol once. Rookie mistake, Lee Loader. Had a very difficult time extracting the case. Lots of smoke. Lee Loaders were my first experience at reloading in 1968.
My AR shoots faster than the speed of light. There are targets bleeding today on Mars from shots I haven’t even fired yet.
More on fps. The 25 aught 6 is a 30 06 necked down to 25 caliber. About 4000 fps. Good long range varmint round. My brother could kill a gopher at 300 yards. I have a friend that has a sniper rifle, can put 5 rounds in 3” at 800 yards. Shoots a lot of hogs (farm country here).
I have an RCBS Junior loader I have been using since the early 70’s.
Don’t forget to save your brass. And don’t forget to re-size it if you get into loading your own. Pick up brass at the shooting range too.
Just buy a shotgun. 😏
Plus force = mass x velocity. The AR-15 has a little bit more velocity than most 308 deer hunting rounds (2800 fps vs. 3100 fps) yet a 308 round has three times the mass a 5.56 round does. Thus the 308 hits with much more destructive force. A deer rifle is MUCH more powerful than an AR-15.
I believe the covid vaccines killed more people than AR-15s year to date....
Lemme see. The 220 Swift is >4,000 fps. Five times 4000 is 20,000 fps. Wow. I didn't realize my ARs were that powerful. Time to change the barrels out.
unless you are shooting slugs from a rifled barrel it’s only good out to around 25 yards. But for close in, yeah they are awesome.
And the IRS has exactly how many of these?
No, they call them "assault weapons".
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