3/9 CNN story on "armor piercing assault rifle bullets"

JohnnyE · Mar 10, 2015

How many times can you say "assault rifle" in a 370 word story? How many inaccuracies, too? Sheesh.

Interestingly, earlier today the story was on the CNN landing page, now it's much more difficult to find. Maybe a look at the comments provides a hint.

Repeat something loud enough and often enough, and people may start to believe it. :bullhorn:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/09/news/assault-rifle-ammo-ban-sells-out/index.html

Boxcab · Mar 10, 2015

Comments???

tkd4life · Mar 10, 2015

It looks like the comments are actually reporting more facts than the article itself. Not surprising with CNN these days.

WheelHead · Mar 10, 2015

tkd4life said:
It looks like the comments are actually reporting more facts than the article itself. Not surprising with CNN these days.

Yeah that comment section is kicking there ass! :lol:

moojersey · Mar 13, 2015

they forgot to say 'explosive heat seeking' armor piercing assault rifle bullets

rob-cubed · Mar 13, 2015

So, if they are "assault rifle bullets" then they aren't handgun bullets. Problem solved. Thanks CNN!

plinkerton · Mar 13, 2015

My favorite comment so far:

Green Tip is not and has never been 'Armor Piercing'..it was designed to take down big heavy potato-fed Russians

fightinbluhen51 · Mar 13, 2015

plinkerton said:
My favorite comment so far:

FIFY

Green Tip is not and has never been 'Armor Piercing'..it was designed to take down big heavy ~~potato~~vodka-fed Russians

MikeTF · Mar 13, 2015

rob-cubed said:
So, if they are "assault rifle bullets" then they aren't handgun bullets. Problem solved. Thanks CNN!

bama47 · Mar 13, 2015

That article is horrible!

ken792 · Mar 13, 2015

Here are some of the funny articles I've seen

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/edit...on-armor-piercing-bullets-20150312-story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...shouted-down-a-ban-on-armor-piercing-bullets/

Here's the best one. Where can I get my small, concealable AR pistol?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...3/12/the-nra-even-more-ridiculous-than-usual/

Yet there’s now a handgun on the market that can accept the 5.56mm bullets, too. Though many sportsmen use this type of ammunition, the introduction of a compatible handgun makes it easy for criminals to chamber the armor-piercing bullets in small concealed weapons, the sort of firearms that cops generally encounter and fear.

Alea Jacta Est · Mar 13, 2015

You'd think, them being black and all, they'd call them A Pepper Rifle.

fidelity · Mar 13, 2015

ken792 said:
Here are some of the funny articles I've seen

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/edit...on-armor-piercing-bullets-20150312-story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...shouted-down-a-ban-on-armor-piercing-bullets/

Here's the best one. Where can I get my small, concealable AR pistol?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...3/12/the-nra-even-more-ridiculous-than-usual/

I think the writer of the last article is someone who has quoted MDS discussions in his past reporting. I forget from which subforums. Despite the column's name, he is anything but post-partisan.

There was an interesting position shift noted in his column ...

Erika Soto Lamb, spokesperson for Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, points out that her group never asked the administration to ban the 5.56mm ammo. “We didn’t take a position on the ATF ammo ban,” she explained to me in an e-mail. “We focus on keeping guns out of dangerous hands (background checks, etc.) instead of on the guns/ammo themselves (this, for instance, assault weapons ban, etc.).”

Bloomberg probably wouldn’t mind seeing military-style ammunition off store shelves. But his organization hasn’t been pushing it, reflecting a quiet but broad shift in emphasis among some gun-control advocates away from restrictions on which firearms can be sold and toward restricting who can buy guns and how.

Did they inform their MD proxies and fellow travelers (e.g. MDA) that have been lobbying for gun restrictions these past two years in state? It might be illuminating to line up the above statements with what they've advocated in the past. It sounds like a policy recalibration to gain popular votes, but given history, they're not to be trusted.

ken792 · Mar 13, 2015

fidelity said:
I think the writer of the last article is someone who has quoted MDS discussions in his past reporting. I forget from which subforums. Despite the column's name, he is anything but post-partisan.

There was an interesting position shift noted in his column ...

Did they inform their MD proxies and fellow travelers (e.g. MDA) that have been lobbying for gun restrictions these past two years in state? It might be illuminating to line up the above statements with what they've advocated in the past. It sounds like a policy recalibration to gain popular votes, but given history, they're not to be trusted.

I think it was him that quoted one of my posts on smart guns.

The thing is that the gun grabbers realized they aren't getting anywhere at the federal level, so they're instead pushing for state stuff. Nevada is the next battleground since they submitted enough petitions back in November to get an initiative onto the 2016 ballot to criminalize private transfers ("universal background checks" in their language). Nevada's legislature had actually passed a bill to criminalize private transfers back in 2013, and it took the governor's veto to stop it. The antis just don't give up.

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