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Old 06-18-2016, 17:55   #1
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AR-15 Gives Reporter PTSD

If the rifle didn't, the comments and memes flying around will.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...icle-1.2673201

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 3:38 PM

GERSH KUNTZMAN (yes, that is the pussy's real name)

What is it like to fire an AR-15? It’s horrifying, menacing and very very loud

It felt to me like a bazooka — and sounded like a cannon.

One day after 49 people were killed in the Orlando shooting, I traveled to Philadelphia to better understand the firepower of military-style weapons and, hopefully, explain their appeal to gun lovers.

But mostly, I was just terrified.

Many gun shops turned down our request to fire and discuss the AR-15, a style of semi-automatic rifle popular with mass killers such as San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook and similar in capabilities to the Sig Sauer MCX rifle used by Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen.

But Frank Stelmach of Double Tap Shooting Range and Gun Shop invited me, videographer Michael Sheridan and reporter Adam Shrier to come down. Stelmach is not like many gun lovers. He admires his weaponry, yes, and has difficulty explaining why law-abiding citizens need a gun that can empty a 40-round magazine in a few seconds. But he also hates the idea that “bad people” get a hold of a gun like this and use it to kill without difficulty.

“There should be expanded background checks — extending into your family, friends and associates,” he said. “And there should be a mental health screening. In Europe, if you want to buy a gun, you have to see a doctor (for a psychiatric examination) to see if something’s not right.”

Stelmach, who opened his shop six years ago after a career in law enforcement in Europe, also said he never sells a gun to someone who “looks a little bit funny,” and he claimed he had prevented many guns from getting into the wrong hands because the would-be purchaser “asked stupid questions” like, “What happens to me if the gun is stolen?”

But very few gun shop owners do anything close to Stelmach’s sniff test — and he acknowledged how easy it is to find another gun shop owner willing to make the sale.

Very easy. In fact, as Philadelphia Daily News columnist Helen Ubinas showed today, you can get a military-styled weapon in seven minutes in this country.

Stelmach doesn’t think it should be easy. But he thinks it should be allowed. "Guns don't kill people. The wrong people kill people," Stelmach added. "We can't blame the weapon."

He loves the AR-15 for cops, soldiers, hunters and target shooters. “It’s fun to shoot something like that,” he said.

Not in my hands. I’ve shot pistols before, but never something like an AR-15. Squeeze lightly on the trigger and the resulting explosion of firepower is humbling and deafening (even with ear protection).

The recoil bruised my shoulder, which can happen if you don't know what you're doing. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

Even in semi-automatic mode, it is very simple to squeeze off two dozen rounds before you even know what has happened. If illegally modified to fully automatic mode, it doesn’t take any imagination to see dozens of bodies falling in front of your barrel.

All it takes is the will to do it.

Forty nine people can be gone in 60 seconds.
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Old 06-18-2016, 18:33   #2
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The nasty 5.56 bruised his wittle shoulder....

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I hope he had some spare pampers hanging around!
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He will never be the next Hemingway.
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His follow up article was almost as pathetic.
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Old 06-18-2016, 21:49   #6
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bruised by recoil and disoriented by shell casings...

holy fuck mother of all that tastes like thick crispy bacon that guy is a little bitch
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bruised by recoil and disoriented by shell casings...

holy fuck mother of all that tastes like thick crispy bacon that guy is a little bitch
He was so disoriented the Kunzter must have thought the brass ejected from the left. No doubt Obamacare will cover his counseling.
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He will never be the next Hemingway.
He might if he puts the gun in his mouth........
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Kuntzman awarded the National Defense Service Medal
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Is it bad when you have a name like Kuntzman and a 7 year old girl proves to be far more tough than you proved you were capable of being?

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ASK KUNTZMAN!

Dear Kuntzman, big fan. I am trying to go green in order to save the Earth. Dying polar bears make me sad. Should I buy a Toyota Prius?

– Carbon Neutral in Carson City

Dear Carbon, I drove a Prius once and it changed me forever. As soon as I climbed inside the minimalist brutalist interior of this carbon fiber Japanese death machine it was as if I was driving a monster truck. I pushed start. The engine was a throaty roar like a thousand nuclear jet bombers. I immediately soiled my trousers to prevent this beast of the land of hentai from raping me. Tentacles are NOT OKAY. In my haste to escape, I touched a lever, and the windshield wipers began beating like a reaper’s sickle threshing horror.
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That guy is such a little bitch that his balls are probably made out of pussy.
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Someone needs to put a Beowulf .50 in his hands and tell him it's a "slightly modified AR"....Slightly. Wonder how his shoulder would feel then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN6uvd1GeSs



Also this, best sentence out of his whole bullshit article, "The recoil bruised my shoulder, which can happen if you don't know what you're doing."

So he just admitted point blank that he doesn't know what he's doing
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