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mystery-ak:
Fact Check: Biden Falsely Claims AR-15 Bullets ‘Blow Up’ Inside the Body

AWR Hawkins 28 Mar 2023

CLAIM: During his Tuesday gun control push, President Biden said that AR-15 bullets “blow up” once they get inside the human body.

Verdict: False. The AR-15 round is not designed to disintegrate in the body.

During a speech to union workers in Durham, North Carolina, Biden declared about AR-15 bullets, “It’s not just merely the weapon, in terms that it’s semiautomatic in effect, but the velocity with which it comes out of that muzzle, what it does when it hits the body, most bullets would go just straight through and out, but it blows up once its inside your body”:


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https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1640790378948206596

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https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/28/fact-check-biden-falsely-claims-ar-15-bullets-blow-up-inside-body/

Smokin Joe:
More nonsense from the IIC (Idiot in Chief).

BellyAche:
He probably go the information from this WP article. (But then it IS a WP article.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/

mountaineer:
The Washington Post Misfires—Again
Its series on the AR-15 is error-ridden propaganda.
By Kevin D. Williamson   
Mar 31, 2023

When it comes to the AR-15, the Washington Post keeps getting it wrong. A piece headlined “The Blast Effect” makes various claims about the rounds fired by AR-type rifles, some of which are untrue, the rest of which are common to almost all centerfire rifles. The Washington Post’s claim that the AR-type rifle is “uniquely destructive” is categorically false. The journalistically responsible thing to do would be to retract these claims, but the Post is not engaged in journalism—it is engaged in culture-war propaganda.

I have been annotating some of the errors in the Post’s hysterical and error-ridden series on firearms and firearm-enabled violence, and today I will look at the claim that AR-pattern rifles are especially dangerous because the 5.56mm bullet moves so fast:

“What makes the weapon so deadly is the speed of that bullet,” the Post claims.

(If you will forgive a little prologue: I will set aside, for the moment, the fact that there are lots of firearms that fire the 5.56mm NATO round and its fraternal twin, the .223 Remington. The bullet does not go extra fast when fired from an AR-style rifle; in fact, it typically will be going a bit slower than when fired from a traditional hunting rifle, because AR-style rifles usually, though not always, are outfitted with shorter barrels.  ... https://thedispatch.com/article/the-washington-post-misfires-again/#respond

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