NPR beclowns itself with discussion of AR-15

 Daily Caller:

NPR claimed Tuesday that an AR-15 rifle is capable of beheading people. We spoke to a few experts, who, to put it bluntly, said the claim is “bullshit.”

The outlet published a piece focusing on the Uvalde, Texas, coroner who discussed the horrors of identifying the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

“The AR-15, which is the weapon used by the gunman at Robb Elementary, is designed to blow targets apart,” NPR wrote. “It’s a weapon built for war. And when fired into a human adult body, its bullets travel with such fierce velocity that they can decapitate a person, or leave a body looking ‘like a grenade went off in there,’ as Peter Rhee, a trauma surgeon at the University of Arizona, told Wired.”
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Despite insistence from NPR that the AR-15 can decapitate people, we consulted people who have actually shot weapons of war.

Delta Force Operator Bob Keller told the Daily Caller that he has “never seen” someone decapitated by an AR-15 and that he “would say [the claim is] bullshit.”

Stephen Gutowski, founder of The Reload and firearms reporter told the Daily Caller that NPR’s claim “doesn’t sound realistic at all.”
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“100% inaccurate,” O’Neill said when asked for his thoughts on NPR’s assertion. “If you think about it logically, which a lot of politicians don’t, you can decapitate someone with anything. People get decapitated in car wrecks. As a former Navy SEAL who has shot people up close with something similar to an AR-15, you don’t blow their head off, it’s not how it works.”

“It’s a small caliber bullet with high velocity,” O’Neill said. “It doesn’t decapitate you. I shot Bin Laden three times in the head up close with the same caliber and it didn’t decapitate him.”

O’Neill added while an AR-15 absolutely can kill someone, “there is no way, no way” it can decapitate someone.

“Getting rid of the gun is not getting rid of the problem,” the former SEAL added, noting the AR-15 is “excellent” for home defense.

I do not think it is a weapon of war.  It is really designed for personal protection.  I know people who have AR-15s that have never killed anyone. It is not why they have the weapon.

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