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2022-11-30 21:45:09 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 01724DE9E2BD80E34ACB6894FFB5ECDD158EBC4F618D82A989BFA42EDA84B2DB
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The AR-15 was developed as a military weapon. Colt uses the design in its M-16. It's semiautomatic rather than fully automatic like M16, but the congressman is talking about the level of damage it does to a human body, not its firing speed, so that's irrelevant. https://www.npr.org/2018/02/28/588861820/a-brief-history-of-the-ar-15
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