For those who missed it, here is the CBS 60 Minutes must watch AR-15 segment.

[Elwood P Dowd]

[lucca18]

1. Thank You

[El Supremo]

2. I remember that when I shot an M16...

the Marine instructor said that even though the bullet is small it's velocity can cause more harm than a BAR or Thompson. Why the hell can the public buy such a thing?

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. I was in the US Army during the Vietnam Era.

Never, in my wildest dreams, did I imagine that one day those M-16s we were using would be legal for non-military civilians. The AR-15 is almost the same but doesn't have a fully automatic function unless someone modifies the damn thing.

[former9thward]

8. The AR-15 was designed in 1956 and started being produced for civilians in 1959.

Before Vietnam. The M-16 was designed for the Army based on the AR-15 not the other way around as is sometimes claimed. Because they are automatic M-16s are not legal for the general civilian population. I am unaware of any shooting incident where someone had modified a semi-automatic rifle to become a automatic rifle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-15#:~:text=The%20ArmaLite%20AR%2D15%20is,on%20its%20AR%2D10%20rifle.

[CrackityJones75]

10. Other than bump stocks?

Which I suppose isn’t “fully automatic”

[uponit7771]

9. +1,

[Kaleva]

11. AR-15s can fire a variety of rounds. Including shotgun shells

Your issue seems to be more with the .223 Remington or 5.56mm NATO then with the gun itself. You probably don't have an issue with AR-15 that fires 410 shotgun shells

[rurallib]

3. will watch later - thanks

[In It to Win It]

5. It's heartbreaking to watch

[treestar]

6. Any part of the country can become the equivalent

of a battlefield.

[SYFROYH]

7. I detected no lies

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I shoot AR style rifles outfitted for 22lr, 9mm, and 5.56x45. And also 7.62x52 out of AR-10s. How big and how fast a bullet moves determines its affect on living tissue. No doubt about it.