NY Daily News Fires the AR-15

[Ben]

Horrifying! Loud! Menacing! Bruised my shoulder!

   One day after 49 people were killed in the Orlando shooting, I traveled to Philadelphia to better understand the firepower of military-style assault weapons and, hopefully, explain their appeal to gun lovers.

    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.

    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.

http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2016/06/14/ny-daily-news-writer-explains-why-ar-15s-are-scary-and-evil-but-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/

[Perd Hapley]

Way too much wrong with that. The guy in Orlando didn't even use an AR.

Really sweet how the author implies most gun owners don't care if quotation marks-bad people-close quotation marks don't care about people getting shot. 

[freakazoid]

Maybe they set this guy up? Gave him something much much stronger than a .223, told him to hold it loosely against his shoulder, didn't give him any hearing protection, and since he mentioned the casing flying past his face told him to use his left shoulder. Can you smell destruction?

[Boomhauer]

*expletive deleted*ing pussy

[Angel Eyes]

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.

What is this?  Woody Allen visits a gun shop?

Did he have to change his diapers when he got home?

[lee n. field]

*expletive deleted*ing pussy

"meow"

[BlueStarLizzard]

I actually utilized my twitter for this one. What a *expletive deleted*ing wimp. 

[MillCreek]

Temporary case of PTSD?  I could not find that one in the DSM.

[Firethorn]

Temporary case of PTSD?  I could not find that one in the DSM.

Everything is PTSD today.  Your local vegan restaurant being out of organic kale for your daily salad is enough to get it nowadays.

Bruised shoulder from an AR?  From a 'few shots'?  Smell of sulfur?

Was the guy mistaking a Brown Bess for a AR?

edit:  He also talked about semi-auto and full-auto.  Reading between the lines about the gun dealer he worked with(a police supplier, apparently), I'm willing to bet that he got to handle a 'police special' firearm that us proletariat can't get.  Maybe this was made clear to him but didn't make it into the article, or maybe it wasn't, and he really thinks we can buy full-auto ARs from the local Wally-world.

[MechAg94]

I guess he is hiding in his safe space now.

[230RN]

Propagandist, that's all.  Not a journalist.  Not too many modern reporters are.

[Andiron]

Propagandist  bullshit, that's all.  Not a journalist.  Not too many modern reporters are.

FTFY

[BlueStarLizzard]

I guess he is hiding in his safe space now.

If only he'd stay there and never emerge again.

[lupinus]

Temporary case of PTSD?  I could not find that one in the DSM.

It's right below spontaneous vaginal formation.


Sent from my iPhone. Freaking autocorrect.

[birdman]

Brass flying past face?  Are they a lefty?

[BlueStarLizzard]

It's right below spontaneous vaginal formation.


Sent from my iPhone. Freaking autocorrect.

Oh, no you don't. He's all yours. He's too much of a wimp to form a vagina.

[Ben]

edit:  He also talked about semi-auto and full-auto.  Reading between the lines about the gun dealer he worked with(a police supplier, apparently), I'm willing to bet that he got to handle a 'police special' firearm that us proletariat can't get.  Maybe this was made clear to him but didn't make it into the article, or maybe it wasn't, and he really thinks we can buy full-auto ARs from the local Wally-world.

Yeah, that made me curious about the dealer and his motives, given all the others who turned the dumbass reporter down. There's no way to make a determination on the dealer good or bad though, because the article is such horse crap.

[dm1333]

Brass flying past face?  Are they a lefty?

I'm a lefty who has alway used right handed AR15's, M16's and M4's.  Brass flying past my face has never been an issue.  I'd love to watch the guy fire my M38 or MN 91/30.  The fireball coming from my M38 would probably make him wet his pants.   

[Hawkmoon]

Way too much wrong with that. The guy in Orlando didn't even use an AR.

That's the second time today I heard that. The initial reports I read said he did.

If not an AR-15, what did he use?

[Perd Hapley]

He used a Sig MCX.


Here's a very good article on the terrifying nature of MSRs. I'm glad I read it. One appreciates a bit of sanity in these times.

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/06/14/fact-check-ar-15-wasnt-used-orlando-wouldnt-mattered-anyway/

[RoadKingLarry]

That's the second time today I heard that. The initial reports I read said he did.

If not an AR-15, what did he use?

Sig Sauer MCX carbine

[BobR]

Sig Sauer MCX carbine

Doesn't matter any more.

The gun the Orlando shooter used was not an AR-15. That doesn’t change much.

While aesthetically similar to and just as lethal as an AR-15, the MCX is internally a different beast, thus all but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. Yet while the weapon is different, the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/06/14/the-gun-the-orlando-shooter-used-was-not-an-ar-15-that-doesnt-change-much/


bob

[Scout26]

His last name is an accurate description, if slightly misspelled....

 

[Balog]

Pathetic excuse for a human being. My 4 year old daughter has more (metaphorical) balls than that waste of oxygen.

[41magsnub]

*expletive deleted*ing pussy

This.  I'm not one for Internet bravado but come the *expletive deleted*ck on....  what a limp wristed panty waist.  There are 6 year old girls tougher than this guy.