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NARRATIVE FAIL: Orlando Islamic Terrorist Did NOT Use An AR-15
2016-06-14
"...The rifle used by the Islamist terrorist in Orlando was instead a Sig Sauer MCX carbine, a modular, multi-caliber (able to swap to different calibers, including 5.56 NATO, 300 BLK, and 7.62×39) rifle system that sometimes utilizes STANAG magazines common to more than 60 different firearms, but otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.

This of course, will make no difference at all to the anti-gun politimedia, who don’t particularly care about factual accuracy and who likely wouldn’t be able to tell an AR-15 from a toaster oven if their lives depended on it."...
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#9  PBS News tonight had a big expose on the AR-15 that the killer used.
Posted by: 3dc   2016-06-14 20:12  

#8  Well, according to Tom Brokaw, it was an AR-14.

He was an anchorman, you know.
Posted by: charger   2016-06-14 17:37  

#7  
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-06-14 16:28  

#6  The Journalists Firearms Identification Table at the link is a hoot. It seems we could use that in our library. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2016-06-14 12:20  

#5  Well, the anti-gun crowd has "willful ignorance of what they fear / hate" down pat. Definition of prejudice, isn't it?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-06-14 11:41  

#4  Couldn't we just settle for a generic term like "semi-automatic assault rifle"?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-06-14 11:37  

#3  The antigun nuts only know two "assault rifles"

AR-15 and the AK-47. Everything that looks like them falls into those categories.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-06-14 10:56  

#2  The writer, Bob Owens, is wrong. Sig Sauer offers the upper separately, stating it is compatible with a mil std AR-15 lower receiver. I didn't find a part number, though.

It is a good looking upper. Kind of like the LMT MRP (which I like better).
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-06-14 10:44  

#1  So every firearm used in a mass shooting by some psychopathic nut is a Glock or an AR-15? BTW, the preferred journalistic psychopathic nut is a conservative, Tea Party member or Trump supporter.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-14 09:49  

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