Like Kerr, the gun and societal expert on fatherhood, the MSM is also experts on the origin of the hated AR-15. Funny if it wasn't so sad. But it does show how uneducated our supposed intellectual elites are. Also, note the evil AR-15 (Assault Rifle to leftards) has a mythical NAZI history, so therefore it is pretty evil and well suited to American NAZIs[/s] Trump supporters. They definitely view inanimate things as inherently evil, especially if there is a NAZI connection.
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The Washington Post Invents A New History For AR-15s.
A 2018 Washington Post article about AR-15s is recirculating today after senior editor Marc Fisher tweeted it out in the wake of the Texas elementary school shooting. In it, he contends that the AR-15 was “
nvented for Nazi infantrymen” and “is a descendant of the machine guns Nazi infantrymen used against Soviet forces in World War II.” The piece is brimming with the customary fearmongering, but as I’d written a chapter about the AR-15/M-16 in my cultural history of guns, the claim piqued my curiosity.
In researching the origins of the Armalite company, reading every book and contemporaneous information I could get my hands on, never once do I recall running across any mention of the AR’s inventor Gene Stoner being influenced by “Nazi” firearms, much less basing his famous rifle on a German assault rifle. Armalite, in fact, was the first company to successfully hybridize American technological advances of World War II airplane design, plastics, and alloys, with small arms. So, I’d love to find out which Wikipedia page Fisher pulled this information from.
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