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NPR Says One Round From AR-15 Can Decapitate Adults, Veterans Call Claim ‘Bullsh*t’

“When fired into a human adult body, its bullets travel with such fierce velocity that they can decapitate a person.”

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NPR has said in an article that one bullet from an AR-15 can completely decapitate an adult, although their claim was dismissed as “ridiculous” and “bullsh*t” by veterans.

Earlier this week, NPR ran a story focused on Eulalio Diaz Jr, the Uvalde coroner who identified the victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month, 19 of whom were children.

However, within the NPR article, author Vanessa Romo wrote that the AR-15, the rifle used in the shooting, is “designed to blow targets apart,” saying that it was a “weapon built for war.” Most strangely, she claimed that “when fired into a human adult body, its bullets travel with such fierce velocity that they can decapitate a person.”

The salacious claim was repeated by the official NPR Twitter account when they posted the article on social media.

However, the Daily Caller’s David Hookstead was quick to throw water on NPR’s claims. In a tweet, he argued that the quote was simply a “ridiculous lie,” and noted that the common .223/5.56 round used in AR-15s is a “varmint round that is too weak to legally deer hunt in serval states.”

The source for NPR’s claim can be traced back to a 55-page study conducted in the Vietnam War. In the report, one Ranger was reported as having fired “an AR-15 full automatic hitting one VC with 3 rounds with the first burst,” adding that “one round in the head took it completely off.” One other quote claimed a head “looked like it exploded.”

As Hookstead pointed out, AR-15s are not fully automatic, and were not even used in the Vietnam War, with American soldiers instead carrying the fully automatic M16. “There is zero proof this is true,” he wrote.

Speaking to the Daily Caller, Delta Force Operator Bob Keller said that he had “never seen” anyone be decapitated by an AR-15, and said that the claim was complete “bullsh*t.” Former Navy Seal and the man who allegedly shot Osama bin Laden, Robert O’Neill said that it was “100% inaccurate.”

“As a former Navy SEAL who has shot people up close with something similar to an AR-15, you don’t blow their head off, it’s not how it works,” O’Neill said. “It’s a small caliber bullet with high velocity,” he added, saying that there was “no way” anybody could be decapitated by one.

Valiant News reported that Texas Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke used similar language as NPR when calling for the confiscation of AR-15s and AK-47s from law-abiding Americans. “I think we are fools to believe anything other than that these weapons of war will be continued to be used with greater frequency against our fellow Americans,” O’Rourke said.

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Jack Hadfield is the Associate Editor at Valiant News. An investigative reporter from the UK, and the director and presenter of "Destination Dover: Migrants in the Channel, his work has appeared in such sites as Breitbart and The Political Insider. You can follow him on Gab @JH, on Telegram @JackHadders, or see his other social media by visiting jackhadfield.co.uk.

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    JOHN MAYOR

    June 2, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    2ND-A: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. (James Madison)
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    The true purpose of the abovenoted Amendment was to ensure that Congress couldn’t interfere with the States’ ability to raise a CIVILIAN MILITIA by limiting access to firearms. The States needed MILITIAS because there was no standing army, and some States were in danger of insurrection (the Whiskey Rebellion, for example!); some in danger of attack by Native Americans; and some in danger of slave revolts. The southern States were particularly nervous about slave revolts, and some of them obliged every adult white male to participate in the MILITIA.
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    Today, the U.S. has a standing army. The STATE MILITIAS are called the National Guard, AND THEY SUPPLY THEIR OWN FIREARMS… and so and thus, availability of civilian firearms is moot. Slave revolts and Native American attacks are a dead issue. Insurrections are usually small enough to be handled by ordinary police forces.
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    Conclusion: A new contemporary Constitutional interpretation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution should render that the “Right” of every American to bear arms HAS NEVER EXISTED, and that the Right that does exist pertains to those CITIZEN MILITIANS actively formally or voluntarily effecting the DEFENSE OF A FREE STATE, and not for the purpose of shooting a neighbour in the face for retrieving an errant baseball hit onto private propery.
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    Prepare for an ARMS SEA CHANGE! And one, that/ which WILL REMOVE YOUR ARMS unless YOU are ACTIVELY FORMALLY OR VOLUNTARILY EFFECTING THE DEFENSE OF A FREE STATE; AND, IF NOT, THE CITIZEN MILITIANS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD, STATE POLICE AND LOCAL POLICE WILL EFFECT THE REMOVAL OF YOUR “UNCONSTITUTIONALLY ACQUIRED AND PURPOSED” WEAPONS!

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