The ignorance and/or deliberate lies of politicians and media over the last two days is incredible.
Via Free Beacon:
Rep. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.) told a CNN reporter Sunday night that an AR-15 rifle is capable of firing 700 rounds per minute.
In the clip first posted by the Washington Examiner, the famously blustery congressman made the claim to Erin Burnett, following the terrorist attack by Omar Mateen on Sunday morning in Florida . Burnett did not dispel Grayson’s statement, which is patently false.
An individual using an AR-15 would have to pull the trigger more than 10 times a second to fire off 700 rounds in one minute, and this excludes time needed for magazine changes.
“If he were who he were and he was not able to buy a weapon that shoots off 700 rounds in a minute, a lot of those people would still be alive,” Grayson said. “If somebody like him had nothing worse to deal with than a Glock pistol, which was his other weapon today, he might have killed three or four people and not fifty.”