Weapon editorial needs clarifications
I find your editorial (April 16) at best ill-informed and at worse deliberately misleading.
While you did mention that the AR-15 found in (Jesse) Mathews’ trunk was a semi-automatic, you then proceeded to call it “rapid-firing.” A semiauto rifle fires no faster than a semiauto shotgun or handgun … one squeeze of trigger required for each round fired. Same applies to a single shot firearm, a double barrel or a pump gun.
You then call the AR in question, “that powerful weapon” but you fail to mention the caliber. I suspect a .223, which I further suspect was a less powerful caliber than the handgun actually used.
You refer to studies documenting gun shows as a “main source” of criminals getting firearms but cite no such studies. May I cite a study?