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Biden STILL peddling clearly false claim about AR-15 bullet velocity in latest gun ban push

September 25, 2022 | | Print Article

President Joe Biden is lying about guns again.

He told his latest lie while speaking at the National Education Association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. this past Friday.

“Look, I support the Second Amendment. … But here’s the thing: There’s no justification for a weapon of war. None. The speed of that bullet is five times that that comes out of the muzzle of most weapons. It can penetrate your vests,” he said.

He was reportedly talking about AR-15s. There’s just one problem.

According to legal scholar Jonathan Turley, “AR-15 rounds move at approximately 2,700 – 3,100 fps.”

Regular bullets meanwhile can reach speeds of up to 2,000 fps, which is a far cry from being “five times” less than the speed of an AR-15 round.

The thing about this particular lie is it’s one the president has repeated again and again and again — as if he doesn’t care an iota about the actual truth.

Indeed, even The Washington Post has previously fact-checked him over it, though the left-wing outlet conveniently neglected to give him a Pinocchio rating.

“President Biden’s statement that a bullet shot from an AR-15 travels 5x faster than a bullet shot out of ‘any other gun’ is false,” the post quoted E. Gregory Wallace, a law professor at Campbell University, as saying.

The fact-check was conducted at the start of this very month.

It’s not clear why the president keeps repeating this lie. In fairness, he keeps repeating many, many, many lies, particularly about guns.

While touting a bill last year that would criminalize the private transfer of firearms, the president said, “Most people don’t know: If you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check.”

This time, The New York Times fact-checked him.

“Licensed firearms dealers are required to look up potential buyers in a background check system before a sale is approved. Private sellers are not required to perform such background checks, and some do sell guns at gun shows. But that does not mean that all dealers at gun shows are private, or that all sales at those shows forgo a background check,” the establishment outlet ruled.

“[A] 1999 study from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or A.T.F., found that half to three-quarters of sellers at gun shows were, in fact, licensed.”

Last year, the president also said this: “The only industry in America — a billion-dollar industry — that can’t be sued — has exempt from being sued — are gun manufacturers. … This is the only outfit that is exempt from being sued.”

This too was a lie.

“Gun manufacturers are not entirely exempt from being sued, nor are they only industry with some liability protections,” CNN ruled.

“Under the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, gun manufacturers cannot be held liable for the use of their products in a crime. However, gun manufacturers can still be held liable for (and thus sued for) a range of things, including negligence, breach of contract regarding the purchase of a gun, or certain damages from defects in the design of a gun,” CNN’s fact-check continued.

“In 2019, the Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Remington Arms Company to continue. The plaintiffs, a survivor and families of nine other victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, are attempting to hold the company, which manufactured the semi-automatic rifle that was used in the killing, partly responsible by targeting the company’s marketing practices, another area where gun manufacturers can be held liable.”

CNN also noted that other industries benefit from “some exemptions in liability.”

“For example, vaccine manufacturers cannot be held liable in a civil suit for damages from a vaccine-related injury or death. And for the next four years, pharmaceutical companies developing the Covid-19 vaccines will have immunity from liability under the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. Those who claim to have been harmed by vaccines may receive money from the government, not the pharmaceutical company, via the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,” according to CNN.

Again, it’s not clear why the president keeps lying. The good news is that at least the media’s calling out the president’s gun lies.

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