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The AR-15 has five times the velocity of any other firearm?
The Volokh Conspiracy answers Biden's latest display of dementia.. (Eugene definitely knows the 2A but isn't a gunny, so he had to check it out). I wonder if Biden thinks the .223/5.56 has a muzzle velocity in the 15,000 fps range (that would make it rather flat-shooting, if the bullets would just hold together) or the average rifle has one of about 600 fps?
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I remember seeing an article many years ago on a bill introduced in the CA legislature. Its purpose was to ban "bad guns", and it included a long list of guns that would be explicitly prohibited. But the article showed how the list was created by the drafters going through a particular issue of Gun Digest and writing down the names of scary looking guns - in the order they appeared, page after page. Problem was, some of the illustrations were improperly labeled, so the bill as drafted would have prohibited several common bolt action and maybe a few pump action rifles, and did NOT include a few otherwise scary looking guns. (I don't remember if the bill was actually passed.) Today's gun banners don't seem to be any smarter.
Try as they might, gun control advocates just cannot build a compelling argument that distinguishes the AR in a uniquely harmful way. The latest AWB attempt goes to great lengths to attempt a definition, but then uses page after page of specific models and brands that are either exempted or expressly banned. In other words, they don't know why any particular feature or combination of features makes the AR uniquely harmful. Like Edwin Meese, they just know it when they see it.
Thus, lacking the linguistic acumen to adequately describe the thing or its ability, they provide absurd and contradictory examples. And because that may not be sufficient, they then proceed to lie. I refuse to believe it's mere ignorance at this point; with the ready availability of information, access to experts, and literally decades to learn, the choice to reject knowledge and replace it with maliciously false information cannot be taken as anything but intentional lying.
From the 9mm lung-blower-outer to 15k fps rifle rounds to 6-foot exit wounds, the gun control zealotry is astounding in its brazen use of deception. Worse, in order for such chicanery to work, it relies on a large population of willing acolytes who receive the lies without question and regurgitate them in defiance of knowledge and facts.