Daily news reporter fires a AR 15 gave him PTSD.

[tarosean]

why are people even giving him clicks??????

 

[Red Wind]

Why are people even giving him clicks??????

You are the thread winner.

 

[desidog]

I haven't clicked it, but is the store name and location named in the article? I've seen a few anti articles where if you google it there is no store& range in the town... Maybe two different venues but not as described in the article...which is clear evidence of fabrication, but some anti's want to believe so bad that it doesn't matter.

 

[stonecutter2]

"He admires his weaponry, yes, and has difficulty explaining why law-abiding citizens need a gun that can empty a 40-round clip in less than five seconds."

How could anyone fire 40 rounds in 5 seconds with a semi-automatic?

 

[stonecutter2]

I haven't clicked it, but is the store name and location named in the article? I've seen a few anti articles where if you google it there is no store& range in the town... Maybe two different venues but not as described in the article...which is clear evidence of fabrication, but some anti's want to believe so bad that it doesn't matter.

Yes it's mentioned.

Double Tap Shooting Range and Gun Shop

 

[eazyrider]

My 12 year old son shoots an AR with me at the range once a month. I hope that reporter reads this and thinks about that......good God, people these days.

 

[Mosbyranger]

I just have to wonder, what does destruction smell like?
MR

 

[RiverCity.45]

Pfft. No such thing as "temporary PTSD." If symptoms last for <30 days, it's not PTSD, but acute stress disorder. Special snowflake, indeed.

Sent telepathically

 

[morcey2]

Here's my other question: Knowing that (according to the article) that the owner of the gun shop is a proponent of an assault weapons ban, at least from what I gathered; Did he have him shoot a rifle with a muzzle brake _AND_ didn't give him enough hearing protection.

I've accidentally fired mine exactly once without my muffs down and it was pretty loud. I didn't get "temporary PTSD", but my ears were ringing for a few minutes after.

Another question is: Why does he compare the recoil to a bazooka? Doesn't he know that a bazooka has effectively zero recoil? But the back-blast is a doozy. Even with my lighter AR-15 there is effectively zero recoil. I wonder what kind of pistols he shot. The reason for the original question is that it has been shown that a louder muzzle report significantly increases perceived recoil. It wouldn't have caused a bruise, but he would have blamed any subsequent pain in that shoulder on the rifle. That or he was supporting the rifle directly against his collarbone or shoulder joint when he fired it. (I don't know if even that would have caused it.)

Anyway, he went into the situation with the article written and did what he needed to do to justify the article. That's my opinion.

Matt

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

It's articles like this that make me want to go after banning freedom of speech.

 

[OilyPablo]

Almost to a T every left wing paper has been using this term:

military-style assault weapon

Which of course is WRONG. But they have been suspiciously uniformly incorrect.

 

[brewer12345]

The alleged recoil thing is very perplexing. Give him a 45/70 or a nifty 5 pound Marlin 1894 in 44 mag loaded with 300 grainers and he can see what recoil is about. An AR? Minimal.

 

[DougW]

Maybe I should post a video of my wife shooting her M4'gery AFTER her multiple back fusion surgery! This reporter is really needing his man card withdrawn!

 

[ACP]

Idiot.

 

[OilyPablo]

It sounds a lot like fiction.

Amusing the same people say use a light 12 ga shotgun for home defense.

 

[barnbwt]

Pfft. No such thing as "temporary PTSD." If symptoms last for <30 days, it's not PTSD, but acute stress disorder. Special snowflake, indeed.

Maybe he missed the trigger warnings at the range & was unprepared for his emotions.

I remember an article a long while back in a similar vein, only it was a woman shooting a 9mm for the first time. Phrases like 'strangely easy' and 'oddly enjoyable' were the norm, of course, they were trying to sell handguns as a totem of demonic possession, so it makes sense to describe them as attractive. The only part of her spiel that seemed realistic, was the description of the realization of something 'very important' being in her hands when she first picked the weapon up. Now, for people brought up around, and with a healthy respect for dangerous things, you've long since had this feeling (as a child) and gotten past your nerves, having learned long ago you can trust yourself.

For those of us who didn't have an upbringing around firearms to any degree, it is an odd sensation the first time you pick up the object & fully realize the potential for destruction is in your mitt, with no guardrails. Nothing evil about that, most of us felt the same the first time a light tap of our right foot breathed life into a lumbering multi-ton automobile, as we realized the magnitude of responsibility we'd been entrusted with. It's our body telling us the "pay attention dummy!" For adults who have led sublimely sheltered lives, it's gotta feel like nothing less than an electric shock of adrenaline the first time they're even in the same room with a firearm, let alone are allowed to shoot it --they've never had the opportunity to show themselves they can be responsible with lethal force, and won't immediately rush at the nearest living thing & kill it through impulse or incompetence.

TCB

 

[Speedo66]

Yet somehow millions of soldiers and civilians have fired AR's without contracting PTSD, and have managed to keep their wits about them.

Are they all just supermen, or is this reporter a singular sniveling wimp? Perhaps ultra liberals are just built differently.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Listen guys, I have SHOT ARs.

I've FIRED them.

They aren't loud (with ear pro) and they don't have much kickback. Time to end this thread.

 

[MICHAEL T]

What a wimp !!!! Take him back to range let him fire a M-1 Grand or a M-14 That should put him if nut house In AR gave him PTSD

Just had to bring up full auto on a rifle that can't fire full auto

 

[Hillbillyz]

Isn't the author the guy everyone called pajama boy? Remember the guy in his onesies pajamas sipping coco that was selling Obama care.

 

[bullzeye8]

How could anyone fire 40 rounds in 5 seconds with a semi-automatic?

By being named Jerry Miculek. He has a video of him shooting 40 rounds in 6.5 seconds with a stock IWI Tavor with heavy trigger and without practicing mag dumps like that. If he was a little younger and had his competition AR with much lighter trigger I bet he could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjx4KSKHIC4

 

[entropy]

Bruised his shoulder firing an AR-15. The drills used to set the buttplate on their, um, tender parts, and fire it to allay recruits' fears of recoil. Saw one do it full auto (unitentionally), that was kinda funny......

 

[CapnMac]

but acute stress disorder.

If I remember the DSM correctly, it's only a "disorder" if the ideation/neuroses/psychoses cause dysfunction, and in desocialization, or causing harm to self or others.

If you have a 30 mph car wreck you are expected to have PTS--post trauma stress. It's only a disorder if you later become agoraphobic, have difficulty perceiving common things (synesthesia, for instance; colors having flavors, not being able to identify sounds, etc.) threaten self or others.

Comparing a minor anxiety crisis to PTSD? Is it any wonder we have a hard time convincing our needful troopies care when they have to share sessions with orchids like this?

Recoil hurting a shoulder? Since he was clearly at a rental range, he should have bough a magazine worth of tommy gun time--shoulder a 13# 1928 and work through a XX mag (no way he could have lasted through an L)

Oh, wait, "the second amendment is about muskets"--let's fit our flower out with a Brown Bess and touch off a round or two.

Ok, I'm irritated and cranky--was forced to read one too many articles written by posing poltroons and their pulchritude makes me want to wax profane. Gee, "Hamiltion says 2A was only the (unpaid) NG"--I beet the NG guys will be surprised to hear they are not paid, and are supposed to stand against a "professional" army. Madison, Washington, Jefferson et al further being confused as towhy "the people" is a different group in every other amendment but the second.

I wish I still had my Savage M1917 (and that it was not 2254)--I'd be seeing if M2 Ball and a metal buttplate would hurt my shoulder. Perhaps the 03A3 and the Mk I bayonet need to go to the range with my '43 marked 782 gear

 

[Hardtarget]

He needs an enema.

Mark

 

[medalguy]

After dinner tonight I read the entire NYT article to my wife (72 years) who has shot my AR, M16, and even my XM177 several times. Her comment? "That guy needs to grow a pair. What a wuss."

That about covers it for me.