Birdwatch Note Rating
2022-11-27 17:28:39 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 406A762121A87D79FDA494DA27CAC162B15A3669093D28EC7BBB01D68768EFA1
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Original Note:
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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