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2022-11-28 12:19:10 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5E040F73C840A11BF57DDAD485BAE870C17795DE713F92915F4BC5FB2D01E4C4
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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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