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Fact Check: New Mexico’s Democrat Gov. Claims an AR-15 Is an ‘Automatic Weapon’
Breitbart ^ | 05/21/2023 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 05/21/2023 8:18:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CLAIM: During Friday’s airing of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) claimed an AR-15 rifle is an “automatic weapon.”

VERDICT: False. AR-15s are semiautomatic firearms.

Grisham made her comments during a discussion of the May 16, 2023, Farmington, New Mexico, shooting that left three people dead.

CNN identified the Farmington gunman as an 18-year-old male and noted his family had worried about his mental health. He used three different guns in the attack and was ultimately killed by police.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: ar15; automatic; banglist; newmexico; weapon
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To: Cobra64

If I were in the audience, I would call her a stupid jerk who is dumber than a rock. I would ask her how many “dumb pills” she took before breakfast.
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Make sure before you do that you have your bail-bondsman on speed dial!


21 posted on 05/21/2023 9:41:44 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Spok

Most firearms are never used as weapons.
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Wonder what the stats are on that? Probably one in a million or more!


22 posted on 05/21/2023 9:43:56 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: whitney69

Thanks for sharing that info!


23 posted on 05/21/2023 9:46:00 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: joma89

This is the same New Mexico that has welcome signs that say ‘we kill babies’ at their border.
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Naw, is that true? If it is, I’ll never set foot in that State again!


24 posted on 05/21/2023 9:47:57 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The AR-15 is an assault rifle. Isn’t that what AR means?


25 posted on 05/21/2023 9:49:05 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Absolute insanity


26 posted on 05/21/2023 9:49:40 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She is not stupid. She is evil.


27 posted on 05/21/2023 9:52:15 AM PDT by 'smith
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To: KrisKrinkle
Thank you.

The idiot Dem Gov still probably meant to imply full-auto, but "automatic" covers the self-loading function.

28 posted on 05/21/2023 9:59:20 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ahh..Libtard RATs.... they think they’re so much smarter and better than anyone else, but the reality is: they’re utter morons that are dumber than a box of rocks (no insult intended to the rocks). They’re vile, corrupt, filthy, godless creatures that even make Gollum look like a saint. They live a miserable life and want to the power and control over every single aspect of human existance to make the rest of us to be as miserable, godless, stupid and filthy as they are.
They can ALL go ESAD.


29 posted on 05/21/2023 10:00:22 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: whitney69

“The first automatic weapon for the military didn’t come in till 1917.”

When did the Colt 1911 enter service?


30 posted on 05/21/2023 10:00:39 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: shooter223
I was at Ft Knox in '69/'70! Echo Thirteen Four...we always come back for more...Echo,Echo,Echo galore!

However,we only fired the semi automatic M-14.

31 posted on 05/21/2023 10:02:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; ...

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This Ping List is for all news pertaining to infringes upon or victories for the 2nd Amendment.

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from this Ping List.

More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

32 posted on 05/21/2023 10:07:08 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Spring and early summer of 69 for basic. Don’t remember the unit designation,but I do remember 2 large hills called Misery and Agony.


33 posted on 05/21/2023 10:09:15 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I was in the Army 4.5 years, Army Guard another 10 years, and at the end I switched to Air Guard.

In prep for deployment I “had to” qualify with an M16. No, that wasn’t a typo. An M16. No forward assist and chromed bolt carrier.

The Chair Force does stuff weird. All weapons are in a central arms room. Sounds dumb to my former army self.

When you go to the range, you are handed a weapon that is not assigned to you so the zero is shyte. When the zoomie armorer handed me the M16 I looked at him and said “No way! You’ve gotta be kidding me!” He looked at me with his stupid soy boy face and said “What do you mean?” I told him “This is an M16” “Yeah”, “No really an M16” “Yeah I know”

I told him “You don’t understand”

So I qualified Expert as usual. My reward for top score was a mag dump with this vintage M16 that obviously didn’t get the retarded 3 round burst trigger pack during one of it’s rebuilds.

The AF security forces weapons guy hands me a 30rd mag and starts telling me how to shoot full auto.

I dump the mag and get all 30 rounds on target. AF guy has amaze face.

We go back to the classroom/armory to clean weapons. I brought my own cleaning kit. Done in 15 minutes. AF guy sees my cleaning kit and says, “Wow dude, were you special forces in the Army?” “Nope” I say “I was a payroll clerk”.

No lie. I’m the only guy on the internet that admits to being a 73-C30 Finance clerk.


34 posted on 05/21/2023 10:11:06 AM PDT by Tailback
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, NM elected her.


35 posted on 05/21/2023 11:01:07 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: PLMerite

“The idiot Dem Gov still probably meant to imply full-auto...”

Agreed.


36 posted on 05/21/2023 11:05:11 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Couldn’t pick an AR-15 out of a line up even with name tags on them


37 posted on 05/21/2023 11:09:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In lots of news reports I constantly heard the words “He used three firearms one of them an AR-15 style rifle!” over and over again. No mention of the other firearms. Then I found this...Well, it looks like the info I was going to link has been removed. The other firearms were a .22 pistol and a 9 MM. He ditched the AR and continued to blaze away with the others.

https://www.abqjournal.com/2599265/beau-wilson-a-farmington-teen-tried-to-alert-his-friend-about-a-shooting-on-their-block-then-he-realized-his-friend-was-the-shooter.html


38 posted on 05/21/2023 11:12:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Folks need to reread 1984.

In my state (the Soviet of Washington) the “people” after some very rich folks financed it, passed an initiative that legally defined any semi-automatic rifle as an “Assault Weapon.” Yes, that Remington Nylon 66 in 22 LR rimfire with a tube magazine is an Assault Weapon!

I know that “Assault Weapons” are considered fully automatic weapons from a technical standpoint. So for gun control advocates to confuse any semi-automatic rifle, no matter its caliber, characteristics as an Assault Weapon and as a fully automatic weapon is not much of a leap.

It is impossible to argue with someone who makes up words and definitions and cares little about truth. In such cases, they just don't care and will say anything.

39 posted on 05/21/2023 11:12:52 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: windsorknot

Armalite Rifle.


40 posted on 05/21/2023 11:19:32 AM PDT by MortMan (The Republic committed suicide.)
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