Gun-Grabbing Author Volsky Uses El Paso Shooting To Push Impossible Fire-Rate Claim
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Texas law enforcement officers keep watch outside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday after a gunman killed at least 20 people and wounded 26 before being apprehended. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
By Joe Saunders
Published August 4, 2019 at 9:09am
It’s almost inevitable.
In the wake of a tragedy befalling their fellow Americans, gun grabbers can barely restrain themselves from using an incident of mass killing to drum up more reasons to curtail constitutionally protect rights.
But a Twitter post published by an anti-gun activist after Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was almost too absurd to believe.
The post came from Igor Volsky, author of the anti-gun book “Guns Down” and director of the anti-Second Amendment group Guns Down America.
And it showed just how little some people who want to regulate guns actually know about firearms.
“Assault weapons are particularly dangerous because they can fire 300-500 rounds per minute (the rate of fire is almost the same as an M-16.),” Volsky wrote.
“You can empty a 30-round magazine in about 5 seconds.”
twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1157775303994957825
To say the tweet was exaggerating would be putting it mildly.
Other Twitter users wasted no time pointing out the problem.
twitter.com/StickeeNotes/status/1157780679008014336
twitter.com/CalebJHull/st...ssible-fire-rate-claim%2F
twitter.com/melikesamerica/status/1157786633900646400
Technical ignorance aside, the saddest part of this is that using a tragedy to push a political agenda is standard operating procedure for the gun-grabbing left.
Whether it’s the Parkland, Florida, shooting from February 2018, El Paso in 2019 or any other scene of tragedy, anti-gun activists are trying to score points before the sound of the firing has even died down.
Sometimes, as in Volsky’s tweet on Saturday, they show they know little or care much about how guns actually work.
And every time, they show they care even less about the United States Constitution.
Poster Comment:
This guy is all wet.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m16-specs.htm
Muzzle Velocity 3,100 feet (945.5 meters) per second
Rate of Fire (Cyclic) 700-900 rounds per minute
Rate of Fire (Sustained) 12-15 rounds per minute
Rate of Fire (Semiautomatic) 45 rounds per minute
Rate of Fire (Burst) 90 rounds per minute
The Supreme Court has already ruled in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Do not expect them to change their minds with Trump packing the Court with conservative justices.
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