WJLA interview

dblas · Jun 13, 2016

I was just interviewed by Brad Bell from WJLA, channel 7 out of DC about the terrorist incident in Orlando. It may be on at 1600 and 1700.

TheBert · Jun 13, 2016

Did you record the interview?

swinokur · Jun 13, 2016

glad it wasn't Katie and her cabal.

Doctor_M · Jun 13, 2016

Just wait to you see yourself played back with a 30 second gap between the questions and your response :-)

Hope you set 'em straight.

Robert2888 · Jun 13, 2016

Too bad it wasn't Allison Starling!

tomgreco · Jun 13, 2016

Interesting to see how it gets edited.

dblas · Jun 13, 2016

And look for another interview on WBAL in the 6:00 Show.

Chriss · Jun 13, 2016

Could someone please record and post? I wont be near a TV during those times.

AssMan · Jun 13, 2016

I don't get either station, but hope it turns out well!

davsco · Jun 13, 2016

i caught a few minutes of fox5dc this morning and the one anchor said the ar-15 could fire 800 rounds a minute. i sent him an email explaining it was semi auto with one round per trigger pull. asked him to pretend firing a gun and see how many pulls he could do per minute. then also said with the normal mags, folks had to change out mags every 30 rounds which also takes time. so between these two factors, nowhere near 800/min. i gave him a standing invite to join me at a 2 or 3 gun match or idpa or uspsa match. he replied back saying he appreciated my note and might take me up on a match one day. i similarly corrected something eun yang on nbc4dc said a while back but didn't hear back from her. hoping that when the facts are actually set straight the news will use more facts and less hyperbole but my hopes aren't that high.

dblas · Jun 13, 2016

davsco said:
i caught a few minutes of fox5dc this morning and the one anchor said the ar-15 could fire 800 rounds a minute. i sent him an email explaining it was semi auto with one round per trigger pull. asked him to pretend firing a gun and see how many pulls he could do per minute. then also said with the normal mags, folks had to change out mags every 30 rounds which also takes time. so between these two factors, nowhere near 800/min. i gave him a standing invite to join me at a 2 or 3 gun match or idpa or uspsa match. he replied back saying he appreciated my note and might take me up on a match one day. i similarly corrected something eun yang on nbc4dc said a while back but didn't hear back from her. hoping that when the facts are actually set straight the news will use more facts and less hyperbole but my hopes aren't that high.

I corrected both reporters today, we will see what it gets us.

davsco · Jun 13, 2016

dblas said:
I corrected both reporters today, we will see what it gets us.

thanks for doing this. i'm guessing it's along the lines though of 'you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink.'

mopar92 · Jun 13, 2016

davsco said:
i caught a few minutes of fox5dc this morning and the one anchor said the ar-15 could fire 800 rounds a minute. i sent him an email explaining it was semi auto with one round per trigger pull. asked him to pretend firing a gun and see how many pulls he could do per minute. then also said with the normal mags, folks had to change out mags every 30 rounds which also takes time. so between these two factors, nowhere near 800/min. i gave him a standing invite to join me at a 2 or 3 gun match or idpa or uspsa match. he replied back saying he appreciated my note and might take me up on a match one day. i similarly corrected something eun yang on nbc4dc said a while back but didn't hear back from her. hoping that when the facts are actually set straight the news will use more facts and less hyperbole but my hopes aren't that high.

The reporter is half right and this is the problem with Wikipedia. The cyclic rate of an AR-15 (FA) is IIRC 750 rounds per minute. Round up and you get 800 rounds a minute.

Here's the problem. The largest DBM designed for AR rifles (IE STANAG complatible) is the Armatec SAW mag which holds 150 rounds. Which means it's nearly a physical impossibility for a hoomin to fire that many rounds in a minute. (someone wil probably take issue with this but I'm at work and can't scour Youtube to find proof or disproof of my theory)

Mr H · Jun 13, 2016

Could have used someone to knock down Dutch's totally fallacious "Assault Weapon" rant this morning with C4... I almost had to pull over I was getting so mad.

lx1x · Jun 13, 2016

Does it matter whAt the rpm is when this nutjob had 3 hours to kill 50 and injured as many.

Mr H · Jun 13, 2016

davsco said:
i caught a few minutes of fox5dc this morning and the one anchor said the ar-15 could fire 800 rounds a minute. i sent him an email explaining it was semi auto with one round per trigger pull. asked him to pretend firing a gun and see how many pulls he could do per minute. then also said with the normal mags, folks had to change out mags every 30 rounds which also takes time. so between these two factors, nowhere near 800/min. i gave him a standing invite to join me at a 2 or 3 gun match or idpa or uspsa match. he replied back saying he appreciated my note and might take me up on a match one day. i similarly corrected something eun yang on nbc4dc said a while back but didn't hear back from her. hoping that when the facts are actually set straight the news will use more facts and less hyperbole but my hopes aren't that high.

Rod Wheeler (former DC Homicide Det.) got my blood boiling yesterday saying on FNC that the AR lets someone fire "100 rounds in 9 seconds"...

lx1x · Jun 13, 2016

Mr H said:
Rod Wheeler (former DC Homicide Det.) got my blood boiling yesterday saying on FNC that the AR lets someone fire "100 rounds in 9 seconds"...

By calculation .. a mag of 30 can be fired at 2.25 sec full auto (800rpm).

dblas · Jun 13, 2016

Mr H said:
Could have used someone to knock down Dutch's totally fallacious "Assault Weapon" rant this morning with C4... I almost had to pull over I was getting so mad.

Sorry I missed it, I was busy with other things 2A related....At this rate I'm really starting to think I should be getting paid for this.

Mr H · Jun 13, 2016

lx1x said:
By calculation .. a mag of 30 can be fired at 2.25 sec full auto (800rpm).

He was obviously talking (out of his ass) about this murderer's AR-15, semi-auto, etc.

Even a well trained and experienced user of the AR-15 would take, what, 60-75 seconds with mag changes?
("Expert" would be less, of course)

And for normal folk, upwards of 2 minutes with any real accuracy??

Hardly the 9 seconds he was trying to convince people of...

dblas · Jun 13, 2016

WJLA piece is up.

WJLA interview

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