Shirley Jackson Lee: AR-15 Weighs 10 Moving Boxes And Shoots .50 Caliber Rounds

By Tom Knighton

One of the primary advantages of the AR-15 is that it’s a light, easy to handle weapon that makes it very useful for home defense. Its light weight also makes it good for those who don’t have the physical strength to hold something like an M-1A or Garand. That’s an important feature in a self-defense rifle.

But lawmakers rarely understand the reality of the weapons they seek to regulated to outlaw status. Anti-gun legislators are rarely gun people. They don’t know what they’re talking about, so, they decide to make some stuff up.

Take Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee, for example. In just the first minute of this video, she spouts so much that isn’t close to right.

“I’ve held an AR-15 in my hand,” she says. “It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving.”

Those most be empty boxes.

After all, the AR-15 as a base model weighs around 6.5 lbs. With accessories, that weight can climb up a bit, but you’re still generally looking at less than 10 lbs. So, for the sake of argument, let’s say this firearm she held weighed 10 lbs. That’s 10 one-pound boxes, then?

Or maybe Jackson Lee is just making stuff up?

After all, her next …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms