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2022-11-30 21:00:55 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: BCC6CA7842E592E0D0DF56419B33F7BD3E1EC9BB6333247B7FDEC8FB29584446
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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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