This will be an ongoing thread on the deadliness of the AR-15, starting with #woundballistics.

This link by James Fallows, author of National Defense, links to other reports and back to his reports from 1981 during congressional hearings on the M16. 1/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/why-the-ar-15-is-so-lethal/545162/
Stoner, the original developer of the AR-15 refers to it as the "little bullet pay off" when he explains the "apparent paradox". It has to do with the stability of the bullet as it travels through flesh.

NOTE: This contains a gruesome account of wounds in battle. 2/
People are learning and growing very much in favor of laws that ban the sale of assault weapons (and we know what that term means). https://twitter.com/ABC/status/987298900640968705?s=20
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1160572364796641281?s=20
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