President Biden’s Apparently Incorrect Declare That AR-15 Bullets Journey 5 Instances Sooner Than Others – #historical past #conspiracy
Do you understand the bullet out of an AR-15 travels 5 occasions as quickly as a bullet shot out of every other gun …?
The muzzle velocity of an AR-15 (which is to say, the velocity at which the bullet travels when it leaves the rifle) is about 3300 ft per second (here is an anti-AR-15 Washington Month-to-month article confirming that). Different rifles have muzzle velocities in the identical basic vary, 2500-4000 ft per second or so based on this record, or 2700-3150 on this record (PDF p. 45), although the speed can be influenced in some measure by barrel size. If the AR-15 bullets are sooner than most rifles (not “every other” rifles), they’re solely barely sooner.
President Biden additionally stated, in the identical sentence, that bullets from an AR-15 “can pierce Kevlar.” That’s true, however solely as a result of it is true of many rifles usually (see PDF pp. 38-39).
One can say what one will about whether or not banning AR-15’s is more likely to cut back deaths. (I doubt that it’ll, both for mass taking pictures deaths or murder deaths extra usually.) But it surely appears fairly clear that President Biden’s argument for why it will accomplish that is just not right.
