Ted Nugent Revives False Report To Deny Assault Weapon Used In Sandy Hook Massacre

[Lakhota]

By Timothy Johnson

National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent relied on a false and outdated report frequently promoted by conspiracy theorists to claim that no assault weapons were used in the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In fact, Connecticut authorities have stated that all of the Newtown victims were shot with a Bushmaster AR-15 assault weapon, with some victims receiving up to 11 gunshot wounds.

In a February 13 column for birther website WND, Nugent wrote, "No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton," and instead suggested that four handguns were used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. CNN recently promoted Nugent as having a "very firm grasp of the facts" about gun violence.

From Nugent's column:

Newsflash for he the sheeple Redcoat Piers: No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton, Conn. NBC has reported the butcher used four handguns, and though we can all agree that anything reported by the networks and so much of the media should be disbelieved out of hand, even if the Bushmaster modern sporting rifle were used in the demonic slaughter of innocents, semi-automatics are not "assault weapons." Period.​

On December 15, one day after the Newtown shooting, NBC incorrectly reported that only handguns had been recovered from Sandy Hook Elementary. By that evening NBC Nightly News noted that "most of the shots fired inside the school came from an assault-style rifle" and on the December 16 edition of Today Show, NBC correspondent Pete Williams reported that "The medical examiner in Newtown says the children were each shot several times, all with an assault-style rifle." All other major news outlets have likewise reported that the shooter used a Bushmaster assault weapon.

Lt. J. Paul Vance, who is the spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police, has addressed rumors that the Newtown shooter had used handguns and not an assault rifle, stating, "It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters":

Lt. J. Paul Vance, the face of an ongoing Connecticut State Police investigation into worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history, Thursday debunked media and Internet reports that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza killed his victims with handguns and not the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S rifle that has been a focus of a proposed federal assault-weapons ban.

All 26 of Lanza's victims were shot with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, said Vance, who bristled at claims to the contrary during an interview with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.

"It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters," said Vance, the longtime state police spokesman.

Multiple Second Amendment and gun-owner websites have attempted to cast doubt on whether the Bushmaster XM-15, a type of AR-15 rifle that is currently legal, was used in the Dec. 14 carnage done by Lanza.​

Indeed, the NBC News segment Nugent cited has been used to stoke such conspiracies.

More: Ted Nugent Revives False Report To Deny An Assault Weapon Was Used In Sandy Hook Massacre

 

[Lakhota]

Nugent's argument that firearms like the Bushmaster "are not 'assault weapons'" is also false. Before the gun industry attempted to rebrand assault weapons as "modern sporting rifles" in 2009, gun manufacturers, firearms enthusiasts and advocates for an assault weapons ban all used the term "assault weapon" to specifically refer to military-style semi-automatic rifles, like the one used in the Newtown massacre.

In his column, Nugent also claimed, "The AR-15 has more in common with a common .22 semi-automatic squirrel rifle than a military assault weapon." This statement is highly misleading as the AR-15 was directly derived from the military standard issue M16 rifle. As one 1985 advertisement for a Colt AR-15 put it, "The AR-15A2 Sporter II is the civilian version of the battle proven and recently improved U.S. military M-16A1." Furthermore, while the .223 caliber ammunition commonly used in AR-15 rifles and the 5.56mm ammunition used by M16 rifle are quite similar, the ammunition used by a .22 caliber hunting rifle is quite different and has a much lower velocity and penetrating ability.

From the OP link.

 

[Lakhota]

In his column, Nugent also claimed, "The AR-15 has more in common with a common .22 semi-automatic squirrel rifle than a military assault weapon."

That's funny. I wonder which one he'd rather be shot with at 300 yards. He's a lying scumbag.

 

[Stephanie]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

we all certainly don't have anything better to worry about than what Nugent has to say

 

[Lakhota]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

Hey, Nugent is on the NRA Board of Directors.

 

[Stephanie]

frikken trolls

 

[Sarah G]

Well, he has to scurry to get some attention now that he didn't get any at the SOTU.

 

[Stephanie]

oh boy , did you all know Nugent didn't get any attention at the idiot circus they call a, SOTU?

He didn't have to get attention there, he gets enough by you obsessives nuts

 

[Rozman]

I saw a video of a reporter on the today show with Matt Lauer and the reporter
said there was confirmation that no assault weapon was used.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGn4o1Lb6L0]Today Show - no rifles used in Newtown shooting. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sarah G]

oh boy , did you all know Nugent didn't get any attention at the idiot circus they call a, SOTU?

He didn't have to get attention there, he gets enough by you obsessives nuts

He was trying, he's such an attention ho.. I think it's just because he doesn't have money and he knows dumb Republicans will give it to him for inflammitory stories whatever the topic.

 

[hazlnut]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

we all certainly don't have anything better to worry about than what Nugent has to say

He's the new face of the GOP.

Chin whiskers and all..

 

[Sallow]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

we all certainly don't have anything better to worry about than what Nugent has to say

He was INVITED to the state of the union for pete's sake. And went in Jeans. Hopefully he didn't crap in them.

That's after threatening to kill the President on multiple occasions.

 

[Stephanie]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

we all certainly don't have anything better to worry about than what Nugent has to say

He was INVITED to the state of the union for pete's sake. And went in Jeans. Hopefully he didn't crap in them.

That's after threatening to kill the President on multiple occasions.

oh waaa, I wouldn't dress up to go see someone lying to me either, but then again I wouldn't of gone to see this hateful little man complain about us and our country..he NEVER has anything good to say about, if he saw anything GOOD he wouldn't feel the need to transform US..But you fools swallow it hook, line and stinker and start petty ass threads on Ted Nugent

 

[Sallow]

I saw a video of a reporter on the today show with Matt Lauer and the reporter
said there was confirmation that no assault weapon was used.


Today Show - no rifles used in Newtown shooting. - YouTube

Except they got it wrong.

The bullets they pulled out of the kids were from the Bushmaster..

The veteran medical examiner told reporters that the victims had all been identified and their bodies released. In what appeared to be an uncomfortable moment for Carver, he said all of the victims he had examined had all been shot by a Bushmaster .223 caliber assault rifle, one of at least two weapons Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old suspected shooter, used to commit one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
Medical examiner: all Sandy Hook victims died of multiple gunshot wounds | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

 

[Sallow]

oh for crying out loud, Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent Nugent nugent

we all certainly don't have anything better to worry about than what Nugent has to say

He was INVITED to the state of the union for pete's sake. And went in Jeans. Hopefully he didn't crap in them.

That's after threatening to kill the President on multiple occasions.

oh waaa, I wouldn't dress up to go see someone lying to me either, but then again I wouldn't of gone to see this hateful little man complain about us and our country..he NEVER has anything good to say about, if he saw anything GOOD he wouldn't feel the need to transform US..But you fools swallow it hook, line and stinker and start petty ass threads on Ted Nugent

Oh...

Let me know the last time ANYONE invited a person that threatened the life of the President to a SOTU.

Go..

 

[Stephanie]

who the fuck cares what gun was USED..stop using these dead children for your twisted agenda

Lakhota has to be the lamest frikken troll EVER on this board

 

[Stephanie]

He was INVITED to the state of the union for pete's sake. And went in Jeans. Hopefully he didn't crap in them.

That's after threatening to kill the President on multiple occasions.

oh waaa, I wouldn't dress up to go see someone lying to me either, but then again I wouldn't of gone to see this hateful little man complain about us and our country..he NEVER has anything good to say about, if he saw anything GOOD he wouldn't feel the need to transform US..But you fools swallow it hook, line and stinker and start petty ass threads on Ted Nugent

Oh...

Let me know the last time ANYONE invited a person that threatened the life of the President to a SOTU.

Go..

oh my gawd sallow, you are becoming as petty as the troll..

 

[Bigfoot]

Ted is in their heads and he laughs about it.

 

[NoNukes]

By Timothy Johnson

National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent relied on a false and outdated report frequently promoted by conspiracy theorists to claim that no assault weapons were used in the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In fact, Connecticut authorities have stated that all of the Newtown victims were shot with a Bushmaster AR-15 assault weapon, with some victims receiving up to 11 gunshot wounds.

In a February 13 column for birther website WND, Nugent wrote, "No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton," and instead suggested that four handguns were used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. CNN recently promoted Nugent as having a "very firm grasp of the facts" about gun violence.

From Nugent's column:

Newsflash for he the sheeple Redcoat Piers: No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton, Conn. NBC has reported the butcher used four handguns, and though we can all agree that anything reported by the networks and so much of the media should be disbelieved out of hand, even if the Bushmaster modern sporting rifle were used in the demonic slaughter of innocents, semi-automatics are not "assault weapons." Period.​

On December 15, one day after the Newtown shooting, NBC incorrectly reported that only handguns had been recovered from Sandy Hook Elementary. By that evening NBC Nightly News noted that "most of the shots fired inside the school came from an assault-style rifle" and on the December 16 edition of Today Show, NBC correspondent Pete Williams reported that "The medical examiner in Newtown says the children were each shot several times, all with an assault-style rifle." All other major news outlets have likewise reported that the shooter used a Bushmaster assault weapon.

Lt. J. Paul Vance, who is the spokesperson for the Connecticut State Police, has addressed rumors that the Newtown shooter had used handguns and not an assault rifle, stating, "It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters":

Lt. J. Paul Vance, the face of an ongoing Connecticut State Police investigation into worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history, Thursday debunked media and Internet reports that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza killed his victims with handguns and not the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S rifle that has been a focus of a proposed federal assault-weapons ban.

All 26 of Lanza's victims were shot with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, said Vance, who bristled at claims to the contrary during an interview with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.

"It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters," said Vance, the longtime state police spokesman.

Multiple Second Amendment and gun-owner websites have attempted to cast doubt on whether the Bushmaster XM-15, a type of AR-15 rifle that is currently legal, was used in the Dec. 14 carnage done by Lanza.​

Indeed, the NBC News segment Nugent cited has been used to stoke such conspiracies.

More: Ted Nugent Revives False Report To Deny An Assault Weapon Was Used In Sandy Hook Massacre

Who cares? Ignore Nugent and he will go away. He would probably buy a house next door to Joe the Plumber.

 

[Sallow]

oh waaa, I wouldn't dress up to go see someone lying to me either, but then again I wouldn't of gone to see this hateful little man complain about us and our country..he NEVER has anything good to say about, if he saw anything GOOD he wouldn't feel the need to transform US..But you fools swallow it hook, line and stinker and start petty ass threads on Ted Nugent

Oh...

Let me know the last time ANYONE invited a person that threatened the life of the President to a SOTU.

Go..

oh my gawd sallow, you are becoming as petty as the troll..

Not trolling at all.

In one of MANY unprecedented and extremely egregious actions, the conservatives in congress keep on making it impossible to govern.

These are very RADICAL things they are doing.