Bachmann: 'I Love' My AR-15 Assault Rifle
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann revealed on Thursday that the AR-15 assault rifle was her favorite gun.
During a WHO-AM radio interview, Bachmann told host Jan Mickelson that she had planned to go pheasant hunting with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Friday.
"I'm a pretty good shot," the candidate admitted. "I learned how to hunt here in Iowa from my dad. I went through gun safety when I was 12."
"My favorite gun is an AR-15 because you can be so accurate with it," she explained. "And I scored the best in my class of any of the men too."
"The AR-15, that's a combat weapon?" Mickelson asked.
"I love it," Bachmann declared. "It's a great gun."
"It can be made automatic, but it's a semi-automatic .222," Mickelson said.
"I like being accurate and that is a great gun," Bachmann insisted.
"Accurate and apparently lots of firepower and many, many shots," Mickelson noted. "How big is your magazine?"
"You really want to know?" Bachmann asked with a nervous laugh, adding that all of her equipment was legal.
Pheasant hunting with an AR-15? Somebody take that bitch's guns away, right now! Oh, and by the way, Michelle, I wouldn't openly brag about how you can convert a semi-auto assault rifle like the AR-15 to full auto if I were you. You might get a visit from the ATF (not likely, I know, but it is disturbing to hear an elected representative openly brag about breaking the law).
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Sons of Guns (or Bitches of Sons) on Discovery Channel at the end of 2012. That is, if Fux doesn't pick her up.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
and shooting, from my time in the military and law enforcement, but that SOG show irks the everluvvin shit out of me.
WTF does a local police deptartment need with an M240 SAW, or a Mk.19 full auto 40mm grenade launcher? Why do cops have the need for full military weapons used to kill armies?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Sounds like overkill you'd think, but LA had a guy who robbed a bank in broad daylight, He was wearing body armor, the weapons the Cops had back then wouldn't touch that(9mm's, 45 colts and shotguns), He walked around and shot cops and civvies with impunity, He even took a potshot at a helicopter, He missed, Like He was an evil Superman dressed in Black, Some cops had to go to a gun store to get some real guns, just so they could rescue wounded and dying officers and civilians, He had that much of an advantage, but He had no sense as He didn't get lost when He could of, He hung around too long and the cops eventually armed themselves with an AR15 type weapon and 223 ammunition and finally stopped this killing machine. I'm sure the more serious weapons are just in case someone makes or smuggles in an RPG, gangs would love that, One Gang Member already put a bounty out on Cops once, no one took Him up on It though. And some gangs can be very violent, so the Cops just want to protect themselves and bystanders around them(I know I would of at one time If I could, My Grandpa was a Culver City Police Chief around 1923, The family has His Gold Badge too, I gave It to them as I thought they could take care of It and keep It safe better than I could), Cops have the training and yes experience to one extent or another, some though should retire and get their ptsd worked on before It kills them.
I'm all for getting her, Newton, Willard, Perry, and, aw hell, bring Cain back for a guest appearance, on that show. Hand them a Glock and tell them to go play Russian roulette.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Fastfeat, the "reality shows" that are springing up on cable tv are really starting to break my brain. Do you know there's now one called "Shipping Wars"? It's about rednecks towing all kinds of shit cross country. How brain damaged can you be to actually sit and watch that shit?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
"Bayou Billionaires" and "My Big Redneck Wedding".
Jeezus f'ing Christ.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Remember this is the same paranoid dummy that said she would refuse to return her census form because of "privacy." Obviously enforcing the law is just fine to her except when it's an impediment to her personal gain or pleasure.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
You know how Michele misspeaks all the time, 'chootzpaw' for example (Thug women have a hard time with words).
She obviously meant she was using it for 'peasant hunting.'
Edit: I see she's going out with the Rep Steve King. It IS peasant hunting
me-oww!
I'd not do that either, most wouldn't know how to fire a weapon in full auto mode, they just press the trigger until the mag empties, I was taught differently, plus I could take It apart, clean and oil It some where needed and reassemble It too and yes It would fire if no parts were left out when done properly, Today I wouldn't own a firearm as It would have to kept oiled as the artificial humidity here would rust the barrel, more humidity in a house in the desert, the cooler It is inside. Besides guns don't really interest Me anymore.
Mrs. Bachmann...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Yeah, the satiric porn writes itself.
a .223 cal or 5.56 mm depending on your preference, and no, I don't for one goddamned minute belive a word she says.
Remember how Palin bragged about her hunting and outdoorsy skills, only to show on video how LITTLE she knows about guns?
Pure, unadulterated pandering.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Classic line from that show, after daddy hands her the rifle she asks "Does this kick" A high powered rifle, and she doesn't even know if there's any recoil. Behold the great white hunter!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Why an AR-15 is needed to shoot pheasants.
Its very much a hammer to crack an egg.
is she running in? President of the NRA?
How much lower can we sink America?
Don't answer that question.
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CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
or wavering campaign staff?
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
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And the answer would be both.Especially the staff.
If you bolt to Romney or Paul youse bums gonna get hoit.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
If you love your gun so much, take it to bed with you. With any luck, you'll masturbate with it and blow your damn fool head off (right through your torso!), sparing us from having to listen to any more of your batshit insane nonsense.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
No one hunts birds with a military style rifle.
Yeah, right.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Really? That's all you got on crazy Bachman? This is supposed to be a negative thing somehow? Too stupid for words.
This is what a "stupid liberal" blog entry looks like right here.
This is only the latest in dumbassery fom her
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
The article makes no claims as to whether Ms. Bachmann's interest in guns is positive or negative. It simply presents a summary of the video clip.
Perhaps in your world every blog entry or news item has to be an attack of some sort. Perhaps too many hours watching Fox "News" has conditioned you to think that way. Stupid is as stupid does, as the saying goes.
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Janek
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
His "pray the gay away" special needs students. That program is called "suck the gay away."
And they are talking about hunting and guns?
And Obama is "out of touch?"
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
She just wants the tail feathers, there wouldn't be much else left of the bird...
You don't hunt pheasant with a rifle.
After that round hits the bird and spins... it's either pheasant puree or shredded tweet...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
when he SHOT.A.MAN.IN.THE.FACE?
As I recall, the pheasant was "canned" - meaning it was caged and then let out on the property where Cheney and his hunting buddies were holed up with their hookers for the weekend. I think you use 30.06 buckshot for that kind of hunting, but I don't hunt, so I will yield to the experts on this one.
she didn't say she was going pheasant hunting with an AR-15 she said it was her favorite weapon. And she was not the one who said it was a .222 caliber rifle or that an AR-15 could be easily converted to a fully automatic weapon....but that doesn't excuse her of being batshit crazy either....just sayin'
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because it simply isn't. Nor does it appear that Bachman actually said that.
This woman is wackaloon enough without embellishment.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
...that you're technically correct, but my question would be: does the fact that the AR-15 is semi-automatic change the fact that it was designed to kill and severely injure people with maximum efficiency? I assume that the term "assualt weapon" was latched onto by those seeking a way to identify non-sporting, military-style weapons that were (and are) being used to kill innocent people.
Or maybe we should allow some slack in the usage of the term "assault weapon" since the AR-15 can be modified to fire full auto. Or would we then have to call it a light machine gun?
And that's how easily the debate gets framed with NRA talking points. Instead of debating whether a weapon should be regulated for public safety, we get distracted with bulllshit about its' technical features.
They love using the term "assualt weapon" because it sounds so much more sinister. Just like they like to use the term "semi automatic handgun". Sounds scarier than handgun even though 99% (or close to it) of all hand guns are semi automatic.
If "they" are trying to make military-style rifles sound more sinister by calling them "assault rifles", (correctly or not), then perhaps I don't have too much of a problem with that, since I confess to feeling uneasy around those who choose to own an AK or an AR or one of the knockoffs rather than a simple 30-06 or some other sporting rifle. Too many of the people I know who own these military-style rifles also happen to be reactionary-minded wingnuts; in fact, I can't think of one who is what I would describe as moderate or liberal.
I guess it's not the tool that scares me as much as the tool holding it.
Consiring what the AR-15 is modeled after, we should probably compare it wth an actual M-16 A 2 to see what the main differences are.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
I believe that the AR actually predates the M-16, if purely in an evolutionary sense, but I could be wrong, as it's not exactly my kind of trivia.
the ar-15 does predate the ar-16. It was originally designed as a select fire weapon for the military. Colt bought the patent, and marketed the m-16 select fire to the military, and the ar-15 as a semi auto to the public.
I still think we could compare their capabilities.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
(usually) the 5.56 nato round. The m-16 is usually select fire, although they do have semi-auto versions for training and some are issued semi-auto only. They both look similar. The ar-15 is almost always semi-auto, although there are a few full autos out their. The m-16 is pretty easy from what I under stand to convert to select/full auto, if they are semi auto. The ar-15 is not, fed regs. prohibit several things on an ar-15, that would make it convertible. And having those things in or part of an ar-15 can and/or will make it a federal felony even if it is semi-auto only.
The ar-15 is no different functionally, or capability different then lets say a ruger mini-14. Which is a standard .223 chambered rifle that is in common use among sportsman, farmers, ranchers, target shooters etc.
Here is a pretty good video explaining how a standard sporting rifle is turned into an "assault rifle" with just cosmetic differences. The San Jose CA officer uses a ruger mini-14 for the demonstration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysf8x477c30
If we called them "nature's truncheons"
Who used the term assault weapon? No one that I heard. Only one that used it was the blogger on this site. What does that say?
is trying to make them sound more sinister? The blogger on crooksandliars? Assault rifles/weapons was only mentioned by the blogger. you would rather know someone that owns a 30-06 sniper rifle that someone who owns an ak or ar for hunting? Yes I know people that own ARs and AKs for hunting. In my state one of the few deer is designed for the AR platform, it's the 458 socom.
The color, the evil "looking" features arent the probblem with these and the AK variants. High capacity magazines and bump fire capability are the problem. Technically not a machinegun, but capable of killing a roomfull of people with minimum effort. Look up bump fire on youtube.
... and not the .222 round the conservative talk radio blow-hard stated... the military uses .223 NATO ball rounds...
Seriously if Michelle REALLY owned a weapon like that she would have known these things and corrected the blow-hard. Her evasive and clueless answers makes me suspect she is outright lying!
For the record: I am Rush Limbaugh's WORST nightmare. A trained libruul with a gun and armed to the teeth! :)
.222, .223 - whatever it takes.
I like going after rabbits with my M203! Not much left of 'em afterward, but with the GOP campaign contributions I'm likely to get, who needs hunting to eat!
please...you would not even have tail feathers left! Not sure I would go on the field with someone carrying such a weapon..but I am a Purdey fan myself! Do they all think that the voter is as dumb as their base?
Perhaps it is a genetic defect..repubs lie with glee... look at mittens and his last 2 attempts at jabs at the President.! Immediately given 4 pinoccohios! Glad romeny was not vetted the first run...there is great stuff out there for the SuperPACs to use and then all that stuff in the can!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPRRSiUWzQ
..Republicans are forced to offer strong hints they will fuck you up with an instrument of slaughter if given half a chance.
They don't even worship 12 gauge shotguns, deer rifles & Saturday night specials anymore; they now pay homage to weapons of mass slaughter. (With the unreliable Negro in the White House, it's wise to have the AR-15 at the ready, so goes the thinking).
BTW, Michelle Bachmann: You & your AR-15 are not scoring the best in your class against any of the men. Some of those men are right out of the armed forces, where they were actually trained to fire a AR-15.
Please restrict your bald-faced lies to the political arena.
AR-15s are evil in appearance. An airhead, bullshitting politician should not be allowed within a 500 yard radius of an AR-15.
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When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Seems like the gun people who think they have to talk about their tool usually have inadequate tools.
the other part is an appeal to the fantasy thinkers of the republican party who yearn for a strongman who will not negotiate. That's what gun waving means to them. To most sane people, I think, gun waving is the sign of powerless, desperate, fools and lunatics who have nothing left to bargain with.
Yeah but is it natural?
She doesn't know an AR-15 from a Colt Peacemaker. One of her handlers told her before she went on the air that the host either 1)is going to ask you about guns or 2)loves guns or 3)the handler told the host to ask about guns so Ms. Bachman can prove she's as tough as the guys in the room.
As some noteworthy scholar said earlier in these comments, her answers belie the truth of the matter-that she doesn't know a think about AR-15s
It keeps getting better until it gets worse again
its chambered in .223 not .222,phoney .
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
It was the interviewer who made the reference to .222, not Bachmann.
The difference explained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U&fe...
I hope we get some footage of Michelle in her freshly minted Cabela hunting outfit stalking the wild pheasant.
Is she simply pandering to the gun lovers, or does she actually like to kill things that much with so much over the top firepower? Ah yes, another "right to life" xtian...
But then again, maybe she is getting herself prepared and all practiced up for the end times and the supposedly dangerous time after the rapture when she is left behind.
Pandering. The evangelicals and the NRA gun fondlers run hand in hand.
I want to know why we've yet to see any of her multitude of foster kids speaking up for her.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Yes, that's very curious. so many kids, and we don't even know the name or age of a single one...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
She likes the semi-automatic because it pumps out bullets a lot faster and a lot more often than her gay husband.
RIMSHOT !!!
... the concept of marriage as being between one man and one woman, this is what it leads to: woman-rifle relationships.
If a man marries his AR-15, does that gun then become his "Wifle"?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
It happened to Elmer Fudd...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's okay, Michele. We have AR-15's too.
but shouldn't that read "to go a pheasant'n"?
*sorry for the edit, but i omitted the hyphen.
that should read "to go a-pheasant'n" (corrected at 2:27pm PSD, 12.30.11)
that kill is another step closer to just 'loving to kill'.....
Christian huh?
crosses her chest after the kill
some may consdier that to be a mafioso catholic kill do to the movies exaggerating a style, but the reality is that if she crosses her chest, that is still considered a christianic kill.
Yes, so very christian....the love each other, turn the other cheek lot.
Baachmann is a dominionist - a perversion of Christianity.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Absolutely...which is what should be pointed out by the media, bloggers, and folks on the street every time she opens her mouth in regards to her love for anti personnel devices.
When Looney Michelle describes her deer hunting experience with an RPG.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
OMG AN AMERICAN LOVES GUNS! STOP THE PRESS!!
that's what the post is about.
stupid.
me-oww!
Marcus isn't using his gun. No wonder she likes hers.
far left loon >.<
Until you have gone rabbit huntin' with a bazooka - don't knock it.
Besides, who needs a job, benefits or retirement, when somebody wants to take away your god given right to go clam diggin' with Nitro-glycerin?
Fu*k'n libs!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Maybe Michele Bachmann just wants to be in the next Girls N Guns video:
http://youtu.be/K7vD2ejf4OA
http://youtu.be/C917QJH9GNM
http://gunvideo.com/pgroup_descrip/97/5329/?r...
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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." -- Gaugin
Maybe Michele Bachmann really meant to say "peasant hunting" instead of "pheasant hunting".
Next, she'll be shooting quail with rocket-propelled grenades. What a moron!
Maybe she and Dick Cheney ought to go hunting together?
How big is my magazine? Uh.......... which one, People or Us? They're both around the same size I think. She didn't know what he was talking about because she's a damn liar.
The M-14 is 7.62 mm, AR 15 is 5.56 mm or M-16 5.56 mm and M-1 Garand is 30.06. The M-16 has been scaled down by the Army and Designated the M4 Carbine.
Donaldd
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