The AR-15 is a trademark, and since its original patent, the machine has gone through many iterations. Here’s what you should know about where it is today.
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What An AR-15 Can Do To The Human Body
“Compare the damage an AR-15 and a 9mm handgun can do to the human body: ‘One looks like a grenade went off in there,’ says Peter Rhee, a trauma surgeon at the University of Arizona. ‘The other looks like a bad knife cut.’”
Once Banned, Now Loved and Loathed: How the AR-15 Became ‘America’s Rifle’
“The AR-15 won its place in American culture through a confluence of circumstances, described in interviews by more than 15 gun industry professionals, hobbyists, lawyers and gun owners.”
A Brief History of the Assault Rifle
“Amid the controversy over assault rifles—and specifically, the debate over whether or not guns like the semi-automatic weapon Omar Mateen used to commit the recent massacre in Orlando should be considered “assault weapons” or singled out for restrictions—some consideration of the original design and development of assault weapons is useful.”
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Oh my god are you serious u freaking moron an ar-15 isn’t full auto
grenade launchers are strict
you cant have a genuine high-explosive grenade in a launcher you can however have a signalling device eg: a flare
My Black Rifle isn’t black.
i love these beautiful rifles.
It’s not complicated, the AR-15 is the civilian version of the M16 and M4. The AR-15 is merely just a weapons system platform based on the same design concept that was developed by Armalite.
The only difference between the AR-15 and your grandpa's hunting rifle is wood vs. black plastic. Scratch that the AR-15 also fires a smaller round.
The ar15 is not a "rapid fire" weapon, it is semi automatic, an over 100 year old technology, and the m4 and m16 aren't based on the ar15, the ar15 is a civilian variant of the M4 because it does not feature select fire or a burst feature like the M16.
The one part you can't buy online and shipped to your house is the lower receiver.
49 seconds in and he is very wrong.
Semi automatic, not fully. Semi- 1 trigger pull= 1 shot, fully- 1 trigger pull= many shots
The shape they used is M16 not an Ar15….
More people die from heart disease, diabitys, or car crashes. Why are we talking about a gun that doesnt even kill that many people out side of war?
Why do so many crazy mass shooters use AR-15s? Can anyone answer that?
It's called MSR-15, not "the black rifle"
I own 3 AR's and currently building a long range AR, i also own 22 other firearms. I have never used a gun in a crime.
Less than 3% of gun homicides are committed using rifles at all, let alone AR-15 variants.
LET THAT SINK IN
source: FBI official stats – https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2010-2014.xls
This video is biased bullshit google pa ludy someone built a sub machine gun with parts from Home Depot
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The AR-15 is an amazing weapon and used properly and safely by a SANE person is a great tool for self defense, hunting, and just for fun, I’m tired of people trying to get this firearm banned.
Thats the most not used in rules of survival…
And the first repeating rifle was in fact an Air Rifle made in Austria and fascinated Thomas Jefferson.
Also the wounding study linked in the description is flawed. It is comparing a handgun barrel length to a rifle barrel length. A more accurate comparison would be a 9mm AR and a 5.56mm AR with the same length of barrel. And compare similar bullet types. So if the 5.56mm is FMJ then the 9mm needs to be FMJ as well. As it stands they are comparing 5.56 FMJ to 9mm JHP which skews the results as the 9mm transfers energy into the target more effectively.
But oh wait… They don't care about accuracy as it wouldn't support their narrative as much as the current study does.
Oh and the .223 Remington Cartridge was originally designed for varmint hunting. The 5.56 actually seen only slightly more power to make it a bit better in the role of wounding a smaller game animal, but that is what combat is about. That is wounding opposing soldiers enough to take them out of the battle.
And the Upper and Lower Receivers are two distinct and specific parts of the rifle.
Finally (hopefully), the AR-15 wasn't even part of the military's search. It was offered to them after the fact. And there is consistent terms for all firearms. The issue is Anti-Gunners and the uninformed don't know the terminology and refuse to actually learn it. Typically because of a High-and-Mighty Holier-than-thou-are mentality that they seem to all share.
You're just another biased bull-shitter.
A civilian can not add a grenade launcher. They can, however mount a " signalling device " to it, and there is a few notable differences between the two.
So what your saying is, the AR-15 was on the civilian hunting market 2 years before it's automatic cousin was ever issued to a soldier. Intriguing…
Relatively unbiased and refreshing. 👍