![]() ![]() The bones aren't going to just break, they're going to shatter. The result was the M16 for our troops and the AR-15 for civilians.Ĭynthia Bir: There's going to be a lot more damage to the tissues, both bones, organs, whatever gets kind of even near this bullet path. Both the round and the rifle were designed in the 1950's for the military. The 9 mm handgun round has a larger bullet, but this AR-15 round has more gunpowder, accelerating its velocity. Members of the Tree of Life Synagogue conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith. ![]() Roses memorialize the people who died in the Sutherland Springs, Texas shootingįBI Special Agent Robert Jones: This is the most horrific scene I've seen in 22 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. In October 2018, at a Pittsburgh synagogue, eleven were killed, six wounded. Now they've become so frequent it's hard to remember them all. Mass shootings were once so shocking they were impossible to forget. ![]() And as we first showed you in 2018, we're going to slow that down - so you can see why the AR-15's high velocity ammo is the fear of every american emergency room. AR-15 ammunition travels up to three times the speed of sound. But, the AR-15 is the weapon of choice of the worst mass murderers. The AR-15 style weapon is the most popular rifle in America with well over 11 million. Variations of the AR-15 were used in this month's massacre at a Buffalo supermarket at a Texas Walmart in 2019 a Florida high school in 2018 a Texas church and a Las Vegas concert in 2017 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The mass murder last week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has something in common with America's deadliest massacres - the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. ![]()
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