Anti-gun propaganda out in full force

I see the agitprop folks are out in full force trying to tell us ‘ghost guns’, ‘AR assault rifles’ etc. are EEEVULL and we must ban all of them. Unless they are in the hands of a) the military b) the police (whom they also want to defund) and most importantly c) their armed bodyguards.

New assault rifle being sold to civilians is twice as powerful as the AR-15 and capable of shooting through bulletproof vests, report says

Policy analyst Busse told the outlet that while AR-15s are lighter and more maneuverable than MCX-SPEARs, bullets from the latter can hit much harder over greater distances.

Busse said the gun could help mass shooters become “a long-range sniper with an AR-15-style gun.”

SIG Sauer is also the company responsible for making the semi-automatic AR-15-style rifle that was used in the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016 that left 49 people dead.

The company said that the MCX-SPEAR would be available at “select dealers,” Firearm Blog first reported in January.

Alia Shoaib

https://www.businessinsider.com/author/alia-shoaib

The hysterical London-based writer’s screed  has been picked up by the usual leftists like Business Insider, Kos, Daily Beast, etc. The gun in question is basically an AR-10-length gas piston semi-auto gun chambered in radical cartridges like 7.62×51, 6.5×51 or the new service cartridge 6.8 x51 (civilian version called the .277 Fury.) According to the article it has TWICE THE ENERGY of a 5.56! – a lie, about 2600 foot-pounds for the 7.62 or 2400 foot-pounds for the 7mm-08, the current closest to the military, compared to over 1700 foot-pounds for the current military 5.56/.223. Unless 2/3 more is now “double”? And she is shocked that it can pierce body armor: bad news, lady, most body armor is not rated for “real ” rifle hunting cartridges.

Worth noting this civilian semi-auto includes suppressor and costs almost $8,000. I see lots of them potentially in everyone’s gun safe. I would worry more about someone with a scoped Mauser and some stripper clips.

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And then we get to a survey of seized guns in the most violence prone cities. OH, NO…the most popular guns sold, Glocks, are at the head of the list! Followed closely by Taurus, Ruger, Smith, and Polymer80. The last one is a manufacturer of 80% receivers for “ghost guns”.{ A little cognitive dissonance for you: the government says guns without numbers, aka “ghost guns” are on a huge rise – but they include any number with a defaced or unreadable serial in that amount. And they have confiscated about 23,000 in the last 5 years. So out of all the crimes in the last years, less than 5,000 a year seem to involve the giant problem ghost guns. }

Five gun manufacturers accounted for over half of the guns recovered: Glock (16.6%), Taurus (12.4%), Smith & Wesson (11.8%), Ruger (6.5%) and Polymer80 (3.8%). These five manufacturers accounted for nearly 10,000 guns recovered in crimes in 2021.

“We’re dealing with the same problem: a $9 billion industry turning their profits into our pain,” New York Mayor Eric Adams told ABC News in an appearance on “Good Morning America” with the mayors of Buffalo, New York; Little Rock, Arkansas; and St. Louis.

Putting a focus on the manufacturers is deliberate, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said.

“If this were any other industry that was as deadly then the government would have already acted to make sure that we got rid of whatever was killing our citizens,” Jones said. “We haven’t seen that action from the federal government so we have to look at the root causes and try to cure gun violence in our cities.”

ABC News via Yahoo

How stunningly obvious- sell a lot of guns, probably a lot of your guns will be stolen. I assume they have solved the other problems that kill more Americans in their cities, like fentanyl, drunk drivers, bad doctors…

 

 

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