Fun Facts About the AR-15

[Beetlegeuse]

Fun Facts About the AR-15

By tacticalprofessor on September 30, 2016

I don’t even know where this list came from but it contains some important, yet little known, information that people need to be aware of about the AR-15.



* The inventor of the AR-15 was Satan, though his patent has since expired.
* Scientists have confirmed the deadly effects of an AR-15 by giving it to a chimpanzee who then murdered them.
* Scientists agree that each year the AR-15 will grow more deadly until it kills everyone in the entire world.
* Some believe that both Hitler and Stalin were, in fact, AR-15s in rubber masks.
* In the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve access to every firearm out there except for the AR-15 which he told them not to touch because it was too evil. But then the NRA, in the guise of a serpent, told Eve that the AR-15 is really fun to shoot. So then Eve took the AR-15 and started shooting all the animals in the garden because she is one awesome chick.
* The part that makes the AR-15 so extra deadly is the handle on top. The AR-15 would be used in less murders if it were more inconvenient to carry.
* It was an AR-15 that told Miley Cyrus to dance like that.
* Bullets that are normally harmless will kill instantly when fired out of the AR-15.
* The reason AR-15s have that prominent handle on them is because the most requested feature for an assault rifle was to be able to carry it like a Hello Kitty lunch box.
* If you find yourself surrounded by AR-15s, know that they will fire automatically if they sense fear.
* The AR-15 is easily concealable and can fit inside a matchbox.
* The AR-15 is the leading cause of global warming from how its bullets shoot holes in the ozone.
* A very small percentage of gun deaths are attributed to the AR-15 because it is very good at disguising itself as other guns to frame them.
* What are the differences between an M16 and an AR-15? Scientists agree that it is something.
* The AR-15 can be rendered harmless by giving it only a 10 round magazine as people always miss with the first ten rounds and an AR-15 takes an hour and a half to reload.
* The AR-15 can shoot through schools.
* In a battle between Aquaman and an AR-15, Aquaman would break down and buy it so people might think he’s more manly.
* There were no shooting deaths until the invention of an AR-15. No one even considered using a gun to shoot another human being until someone saw an AR-15 and said, “I bet I could use this to kill a lot of people.”
* There was an assault musket similar to the AR-15 used by the world’s most evil pirates, but it was pronounced “Arrr-15.”
* The Assault Weapon ban was needed because it is well known that an AR-15 with both a pistol grip and a flash suppressor would be unstoppable by any modern military.
* In Europe there is no such thing as an AR-15 and thus also no such thing as murders. Instead of being violent, people there just drink wine and smoke cigarettes all day.
* If you are shot by an AR-15, you become one and kill others.
* The AR-15 is responsible for 95% of all deaths each year. The rest of the deaths are from obesity and drone strikes.
* Both of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, Fat Man and Little Boy, are jealous of the destructive power of the AR-15.
* Abraham Lincoln said the AR-15 is the finest battle implement ever devised.
* Viagra is made from ground AR-15 parts.
* The AR-15 is as heavy as 10 boxes that you carry.
* Some AR-15s shoot a .50 caliber bullet “that don’t belong in our streets.” These are known as AR-50s.

[almostgone]

Fun Facts About the AR-15

By tacticalprofessor on September 30, 2016

I don’t even know where this list came from but it contains some important, yet little known, information that people need to be aware of about the AR-15.

• The inventor of the AR-15 was Satan, though his patent has since expired.
• Scientists have confirmed the deadly effects of an AR-15 by giving it to a chimpanzee who then murdered them.
• Scientists agree that each year the AR-15 will grow more deadly until it kills everyone in the entire world.
• Some believe that both Hitler and Stalin were, in fact, AR-15s in rubber masks.
• In the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve access to every firearm out there except for the AR-15 which he told them not to touch because it was too evil. But then the NRA, in the guise of a serpent, told Eve that the AR-15 is really fun to shoot. So then Eve took the AR-15 and started shooting all the animals in the garden because she is one awesome chick.
• The part that makes the AR-15 so extra deadly is the handle on top. The AR-15 would be used in less murders if it were more inconvenient to carry.
• It was an AR-15 that told Miley Cyrus to dance like that.
• Bullets that are normally harmless will kill instantly when fired out of the AR-15.
• The reason AR-15s have that prominent handle on them is because the most requested feature for an assault rifle was to be able to carry it like a Hello Kitty lunch box.
• If you find yourself surrounded by AR-15s, know that they will fire automatically if they sense fear.
• The AR-15 is easily concealable and can fit inside a matchbox.
• The AR-15 is the leading cause of global warming from how its bullets shoot holes in the ozone.
• A very small percentage of gun deaths are attributed to the AR-15 because it is very good at disguising itself as other guns to frame them.
• What are the differences between an M16 and an AR-15? Scientists agree that it is something.
• The AR-15 can be rendered harmless by giving it only a 10 round magazine as people always miss with the first ten rounds and an AR-15 takes an hour and a half to reload.
• The AR-15 can shoot through schools.
• In a battle between Aquaman and an AR-15, Aquaman would break down and buy it so people might think he’s more manly.
• There were no shooting deaths until the invention of an AR-15. No one even considered using a gun to shoot another human being until someone saw an AR-15 and said, “I bet I could use this to kill a lot of people.”
• There was an assault musket similar to the AR-15 used by the world’s most evil pirates, but it was pronounced “Arrr-15.”
• The Assault Weapon ban was needed because it is well known that an AR-15 with both a pistol grip and a flash suppressor would be unstoppable by any modern military.
• In Europe there is no such thing as an AR-15 and thus also no such thing as murders. Instead of being violent, people there just drink wine and smoke cigarettes all day.
• If you are shot by an AR-15, you become one and kill others.
• The AR-15 is responsible for 95% of all deaths each year. The rest of the deaths are from obesity and drone strikes.
• Both of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, Fat Man and Little Boy, are jealous of the destructive power of the AR-15.
• Abraham Lincoln said the AR-15 is the finest battle implement ever devised.
• Viagra is made from ground AR-15 parts.
• The AR-15 is as heavy as 10 boxes that you carry.
• Some AR-15s shoot a .50 caliber bullet “that don’t belong in our streets.” These are known as AR- 50s .

The last 2 really revved me up when those statements hit the media. Fvvvvvvvvck .

.....and don't forget the demonic bayonet lug...

[Beetlegeuse]

I didn't write any of it but I keep editing it because I can't get the damn *bullets* list to work.

[ghettoboyd]

I pass a gun shop everyday that advertises one for $380 is that a good price?...I’m not a gun guy but for home security I’m thinking about it...I would take class to educate myself before purchasing of course as I’m a rookie

[almostgone]

I pass a gun shop everyday that advertises one for $380 is that a good price?...I’m not a gun guy but for home security I’m thinking about it...I would take class to educate myself before purchasing of course as I’m a rookie

There are quite a few online reports of ARs being used to stop home invasions. For one thing it is very recognizable, which gets attention. I have the several semi versions of M16 and M4 and the M4 is very maneuverable. For me, being in a extremely rural environment, it's a perfect accompaniment to a sidearm.


You can Google " ar 15 used to stop home invasion" and check it out.

More than likely there are many more. I may be mistaken, but a lot of the self defense/ protection by homeowners isn't really reported/ counted as self defense unless shots were fired.

[ghettoboyd]

There are quite a few online reports of ARs being used to stop home invasions. For one thing it is very recognizable, which gets attention. I have the several semi versions of M16 and M4 and the M4 is very maneuverable. For me, being in a extremely rural environment, it's a perfect accompaniment to a sidearm.


You can Google " ar 15 used to stop home invasion" and check it out.

Thanks ag I’ll check it out

[kelkel]

Fun Facts About the AR-15


* Scientists have confirmed the deadly effects of an AR-15 by giving it to a chimpanzee who then murdered them.

Similar to this!

[Capebuffalo]

Similar to this!

Ape not kill ape.
Is law

[Beetlegeuse]

The only real knock against the AR for home defense is the potential for overpenetration. Because if you shoot and don't hit something soft and fleshy, the bullet's liable to go through four or five walls, exit the house, fly all the way to the neighbor's house and kill him, his wife and their two dogs.

Me, I want overpenetration. It's one of the top reasons I have an AR for home defense. It's been a long time since I got paid to kick in doors so I'm inclined to leave that to the professionals. There's no material thing in my house that's worth losing my life over and the most valuable stuff is in the room where I sleep. And you don't get extra points for exposing yourself to the intruder and if you get killed in the process, you're still dead. So if there's a bump in the night and I suspect it might be seriously dangerous people, I'm grabbing my phone and my AR and rolling off the bed on the side away from the bedroom door.

Then I train my rifle on the door (using the bed for a rifle rest and cover) and call the police. Tell them what's going on, what room I'm in and where in the flower bed my extra key is hidden. Then I wait for them to come and let themselves into my house and run the mook off. Or kill him, their choice.

In the meanwhile, I'm armed to the teeth and I know the invaders can't get to me except through that door, nor do they know for certain where I am. And my hall floor squeaks. And I haven't fixed it so it serves as an early warning system, like a nightingale floor. If the floor squeaks outside that door, I'm going to run a beta-dump through that door and the first 10 feet of the hallway. Then load the second magazine ... and listen. If there's anybody out there still alive after that hail of gunfire, I'll shake their hand and buy 'em a Daniel Webster seegar.

Which is why my AR is loaded with 64-grain Speer Gold Dots, because they're barrier-blind, intentionally made so they'll go through the first wall and still do the business. The poodle-shooter AR's lethality is all tied up in bullet fragmentation, but if the bullet fragments on the bedroom door, then nothing but splinters gets to the mook outside. So I'm loaded with barrier-blind ammo.

But that's my plan. You need a plan. Buying an AR doesn't automagically make your home safe from invasion. You have to have a plan that the AR works within. And an AR is a machine. You'd be a fool to buy a machine that you might have to trust your life to and not get training on how to operate it.

Which is one reason I don't recommend an AR as a first gun. Everybody's first gun (or only gun, if your a one-gun home) should be a .38 or .357 SA/DA revolver. Because the ammo is available anywhere they sell bullets, and it's the most goof-proof repeating firearm in existence. There's only one immediate action item for a stoppage. Pull. The. Trigger. Again. All detachable magazine autoloaders are subject to four different kinds of stoppage and have three different immediate action items, depending on the type of stoppage. So not only do you have to recognize the nature of the stoppage, you have to select the correct immediate action for that particular type. Or you could just swing it like a club.

Revolvers are just easier.

[almostgone]

^^^^ Exactly why my wife carries and keeps on her a S&W 12-2 or Ruger SP-101, both with bobbed hammers. They are the Polaroid camera of firearms, point and shoot. That's why "her" shotgun is an H&R Topper .410 loaded with a slug and 5 more on the buttstock. It's really hard to screw up even if she is "flustered". We're very rural so it's virtually out of character to be outside unarmed.

Can she shoot any of our semis? Yes, Can she run through an immediate action drill? Well it ain't pretty. Remedial action....throw it down and pick up something else.

With that being said, an M4 is my comfort zone.

[i_SLAM_cougars]

The only real knock against the AR for home defense is the potential for overpenetration. Because if you shoot and don't hit something soft and fleshy, the bullet's liable to go through four or five walls, exit the house, fly all the way to the neighbor's house and kill him, his wife and their two dogs.

Me, I want overpenetration. It's one of the top reasons I have an AR for home defense. It's been a long time since I got paid to kick in doors so I'm inclined to leave that to the professionals. There's no material thing in my house that's worth losing my life over and the most valuable stuff is in the room where I sleep. And you don't get extra points for exposing yourself to the intruder and if you get killed in the process, you're still dead. So if there's a bump in the night and I suspect it might be seriously dangerous people, I'm grabbing my phone and my AR and rolling off the bed on the side away from the bedroom door.

Then I train my rifle on the door (using the bed for a rifle rest and cover) and call the police. Tell them what's going on, what room I'm in and where in the flower bed my extra key is hidden. Then I wait for them to come and let themselves into my house and run the mook off. Or kill him, their choice.

In the meanwhile, I'm armed to the teeth and I know the invaders can't get to me except through that door, nor do they know for certain where I am. And my hall floor squeaks. And I haven't fixed it so it serves as an early warning system, like a nightingale floor. If the floor squeaks outside that door, I'm going to run a beta-dump through that door and the first 10 feet of the hallway. Then load the second magazine ... and listen. If there's anybody out there still alive after that hail of gunfire, I'll shake their hand and buy 'em a Daniel Webster seegar.

Which is why my AR is loaded with 64-grain Speer Gold Dots, because they're barrier-blind, intentionally made so they'll go through the first wall and still do the business. The poodle-shooter AR's lethality is all tied up in bullet fragmentation, but if the bullet fragments on the bedroom door, then nothing but splinters gets to the mook outside. So I'm loaded with barrier-blind ammo.

But that's my plan. You need a plan. Buying an AR doesn't automagically make your home safe from invasion. You have to have a plan that the AR works within. And an AR is a machine. You'd be a fool to buy a machine that you might have to trust your life to and not get training on how to operate it.

Which is one reason I don't recommend an AR as a first gun. Everybody's first gun (or only gun, if your a one-gun home) should be a .38 or .357 SA/DA revolver. Because the ammo is available anywhere they sell bullets, and it's the most goof-proof repeating firearm in existence. There's only one immediate action item for a stoppage. Pull. The. Trigger. Again. All detachable magazine autoloaders are subject to four different kinds of stoppage and have three different immediate action items, depending on the type of stoppage. So not only do you have to recognize the nature of the stoppage, you have to select the correct immediate action for that particular type. Or you could just swing it like a club.

Revolvers are just easier.

I have most of my mags staggered Incase I end up needing penetration. Say there will be a hollow point in the chamber, 2 hollows in the mag, then 3 FMJs, 2 hollows, 2 FMJs, etc, etc, so on and so forth.

My nightstand gun is my .44 magnum loaded down with 44 special glazer safety rounds. If we’re in my hallway and i shoot you in the shoulder your arm is coming off. If I miss and hit the wall, nothing really happens. My guns are located strategically through out the house, so even if one malfunctions, there’s another within arms reach, but you wouldn’t know it was there is you didn’t already know it was there. Breaking into my house would be a life changing mistake.

[Obs]

I have most of my mags staggered Incase I end up needing penetration. Say there will be a hollow point in the chamber, 2 hollows in the mag, then 3 FMJs, 2 hollows, 2 FMJs, etc, etc, so on and so forth.

My nightstand gun is my .44 magnum loaded down with 44 special glazer safety rounds. If we’re in my hallway and i shoot you in the shoulder your arm is coming off. If I miss and hit the wall, nothing really happens. My guns are located strategically through out the house, so even if one malfunctions, there’s another within arms reach, but you wouldn’t know it was there is you didn’t already know it was there. Breaking into my house would be a life changing mistake.

Note to self:
Sneak quietly out of cougars house.

[i_SLAM_cougars]

Note to self:
Sneak quietly out of cougars house.

There’s no sneaking past the redbone. She’s a bit of a spaz.

[Beetlegeuse]

I have most of my mags staggered Incase I end up needing penetration....

The AR is my "dig in and fight" HD gun. If I go out the bedroom, I change to the Mossy 590 (both hang from racks under the bed). I keep #1 Buck in the chamber and the rest are 00. Same principle. The #1s have more limited range and penetration, the 00s let me reach out and touch someone, or shoot through the walls at a guy who's two rooms over.

My nightstand gun is my .44 magnum loaded down with 44 special glazer safety rounds....

Dayum, I forgot Glasers were still around. In the late 70s I worked for a scuba shop owner who was the nephew of my county's High Sheriff. He had a catalog he'd got through his uncle for Second Chance body armor. They were the first company to market effective soft body armor and they didn't advertise, they only sold it "door to door," visiting one police department after the other to sell them. The only way to get the catalog was to be an LEO.

One of their mottos was "If they see body armor, they shoot for the head." So they wanted the company to remain as low profile as possible to limit the dissemination of the fact that they were in business, which further limited the number of crims who had learned that cops now had concealable body armor. Another motto was, "The best way to enforce capital punishment on a would-be cop killer is to effectively return fire." Fucking-A! And it's their vest that gave you that "second chance" (get it?). So if you got shot wearing one of their vests and "effectively returned fire" (which is to say you killed the sonofabitch what shot you), they'd give you a free replacement vest ... and a nickel-plated Model 19 S&W.

I don't recall the details but I think it was the ACLU that stopped that practice because it allegedly was encouraging cops to kill people. Personally I always have found that the fact of getting shot at in itself was motivation a-plenty for me.

The catalog had the Glasers in it as well as KTW armor-piercing ammo, the first "teflon-coated" bullet. The KTW's projectile was made of steel, which obviously was going to be none too kind to your gun's rifling, so they made the bullet undersized and coated in with teflon. All the teflon did was engage the rifling and accept the engraving. To this day, the dickhead/dickless [pick one] demoncrats still recoil in horror at the mere mention of "teflon-coated" bullets because they think the coating is what gives them armor-penetrating capabilities. What a bunch of asswipes! In a sane world we'd be using those morons for human targets or crash test dummies.

The guy who started Second Chance had a novel sales pitch. He'd put on one of his vests -- with about a fourth of the layers of fabric removed -- and he'd shoot his own damn self in the chest with a .38+P. You'd still get a helluva bruise, and maybe a busted rib, but to prove the injury wasn't debilitating, after shooting himself he would turn and shoot a couple of bowling pins off of a table. Bowling pins were a common target back then because a glancing hit wouldn't blow them off the table. It had to be a solid COM shot.



THAT is balls. Writ large. (FF to 2:12 for the shooting)

Anyway, all that to get to this. Did you ever see (one of the shittier [and that's going some] Sly Stallone films) "Cobra?" In the opening scene Sly has a shoot-out in a grocery store. He kills the bad guy, job done, so he clocks out, goes home and there he proceeds to clean his piece (a 9millie 1911). And for some odd reason he keeps his cleaning stuff in an egg carton in the freezer.

Anyway, before he starts cleaning he removes the magazine and clears the weapon. And guess what, the first round in the mag has a Glaser blue tip. It looks a bit flat for a Glaser but the round has gone through several overhauls over the years, but the capsule has been that exact same color since day one.

From the night I watched that in the theater until this I have puzzled over why they would do that. Gun guys are a fraction of the movie-going audience. And only a fraction of gun guys would know what the fuck a Glaser is on sight. The only thing I can figure is one day there must've been having a meeting in the props department. And the head guy asks for suggestions on what to load on Officer Cobretti's 1911. One of his minions answers, "I know! Let's use Glasers!" And head guy replies, "Why the fuck would we do that? Nobody knows what the fuck they are!" And minion guy says, "Nobody but that Beetlegeuse guy, and it'll flummox the hell out of him, trying to figure out why we did it." To which head guy replies, "Ya know, I like the way you think!"

One of these days (when I'm feeling especially anal) I might just see if I can find a copy of the film including the full credits, just to watch the ending and see if Glaser gets mention (product placement?). But what I'm expecting to see instead is, written in little tiny letters, a message reading, "Dear Beetlegeuse, GOT YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

And ain't it curious the shit you can learn working in a scuba shop?

[Beetlegeuse]

The shot you're looking for is at 1:13.

[i_SLAM_cougars]

I’ve seen that movie a few times, actually own a knife very similar to the one the night stalker guy has (with the spikes on the handle), but I didn’t notice the Glasers before. Good catch!

Wasn’t some movie or rap group or something the reason black talons ended up getting pulled off the market? Funny no one ever noticed Winchester SXTs (Same eXact Thing)

[Beetlegeuse]

More hoplophobe stupidity. Like the fear of hollowpoints, which is absurd.

You know that rumor, the one that's been around since Vietnam? That the 5.56 wasn't meant to kill, it was only meant to wound? Because the dead are beyond helping, whereas it takes two guys to carry one wounded man off the battlefield, so it takes three men out of the fight?

First of all the idiots are missing that infantry are taught to continue on with the fight REGARDLESS. Grunts don't stop to tend to their wounded pals (unless there's a lull in the fighting) because that's the medic's/corpsman's job. Stay in your own goddam lane! Because the best way to assure the survival of the wounded is through overwhelming firepower superiority. Subdue the enemy WITH ALL AVAILABLE VIOLENCE AND SPEED, then secure the area, regroup and tend to the wounded. So no, wounding a grunt DOESN'T take three men out of the fight because neither the army nor the Marines work that way.

That's the chief reason the Marines use sailors for corpsmen and doctors. Because Marines don't "medic." When the fighting starts, they're there TO KILL. Period. Full stop.

Second, it ASSumes that grunts are too stupid to notice that the guy they just shot is still moving around, therefore no grunt would EVER considering shooting the same guy again ...five or six more times. Because grunts are THAT stupid.

The truth is we DID have an ammunition problem, failures to fragment producing non-lethal "ice pick" wounds, first identified in Somolia (the "skinnies" had too little body fat to cause torso hits to tumble reliably) but it carried over to the war in Iraq. Initial ammunition expenditures were higher than expected because soldiers and Marines weren't just firing "controlled pairs," they were shooting a pair of controlled pairs because two COM hits had proved unreliable at putting down the Hadjis. And with those goat-fuckers, you had to be certain they were double-D dead to make sure they couldn't detonate a suicide vest with their last dying breath.

So no, GIs aren't that stupid after all. They don't just fire a prescribed number of shots and move on to the next target. They shoot until they're sure the job is done.

My favorite maxim on the topic comes from Clint Smith, head cheese at Thunder Ranch: "Shoot until the target changes shape or catches fire."

To the letter of the law, if the shooting is justifiable (based on the threat level), your goal must be no more than to end the threat by means of incapacitating the target. If you're of a mind to keep shooting until the threat is ended, you are more likely to accomplish the goal with a lesser number of hollowpoints than with non-hollowpoints. The dividing line between incapacitated and dead can be very narrow and in general fewer wound channels means fewer traumas to repair, so incapacitation aside, the mook is statistically more likely to die from four ball wounds that he is from three hollowpoint wounds.

So interfering with the use of a projectile that is the more likely to produce a one-shot stop is in no one's best interest.


But to the Neo-Bolsheviks (AKA the demoncrats), facts are irrelevant because they only serve as an impediment to the imposition of Statism.