AR=Assault Rifle
M16 in action during Operation Cook, Viet Nam, September 1968. U.S. Army photo.
The AR-15 is now known as the silly-vilian semi-auto version of the Viet Nam era M16. The original AR-15 was the weaker version of the military’s experimental AR-10, which was a true high-power/high-velocity weapon. Once the military accepted the AR-15 for mass production its nomenclature was changed to M16.
A U.S. Air Force security Airman using a CAR-15. What is notable is that this is the ancient version which can be identified by its lack of a Forward Assist. This photo was produced in June 2000, yes, the U.S. military was still using the ancient version of the CAR-15 in 2000. USAF photo by Scott Spitzer.
The CAR-15 is probably the most photographed version of the AR-15. It is the Commando Assault Rifle, a shortened version of the AR-15.
I’m getting tired of the main stream news media and their puppet master politicians and anti-2nd Amendment activists claiming the AR-15 (M16/M4), and even the AK-47, are “high-powered, high-velocity” weapons. I can blame the police who constantly refer to these relatively low velocity guns as “high-power” weapons. But I can’t just blame them, I have to blame the gun industry itself. The AR-15 is marketed as a high power weapon, there’s even an internet business called High Velocity Arms that specializes in the AR-15.
To make it worse the gun industry intentionally makes their many versions of the AR-15 look ‘mean’. Looks have nothing to do with the performance of the ammo used in the gun!
Arkansas National Guard video from 2018, by Specialist Stephen M. Wright, showing they were using a combination of M16A2s, CAR-15s and M4s:
U.S. Air Force photo by David Bedard, 11JUL2014.
This old-skool bolt action single shot rifle is the U.S. military’s M24 sniper rifle based on the Remington Model 700. It uses the NATO 7.62mm x 51mm (aka Wincester .308 caliber), which has much more velocity and power than the rounds used by the AR-15/M16/M4, and AK-47s.
Does this gun look ‘mean? This hunting rifle uses a true high-power/high-velocity 7mm Remington Magnum round.
Does this gun scare you? It’s the Ruger Mini-14 and it uses the same ammo as the AR-15/M16/M4.
High-power and high-velocity are relative. Compared to a .22 caliber ‘Long Rifle’ the .223 caliber round used by the AR-15 is high-velocity, but compared to many more guns available the AR-15 is what gun owners call a “plinker”. In fact that’s the true reason why the AR-15 is a popular gun, it’s more powerful than a .22 LR, but is far cheaper to shoot than the true high-power/high-velocity weapons.
The AK-47 and AR-15 ammo are much smaller than ammo used in hunting rifles and even ‘cowboy’ lever action guns. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, June 2016.
The AR-15 uses a .223 caliber (5.56mm bullet diameter, 45mm long casing) round. 
The AR-15 can be fitted with ‘sub-caliber’ kits that allow it to fire the smaller .22 LR ammo, or the 9mm pistol ammo.
U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Anthony Zendejas the Fourth, 21JAN2018.
The AK-47 uses a larger .30 caliber (7.62mm) bullet, but the casing (39mm long) is shorter than the .223, which means it’s actually lower velocity than the AR-15’s ammo, yet main stream news and anti-gunners call it a high power/high-velocity weapon as well.
A boring U.S. Army video (with bad audio), from November 2008, by Specialist Amber Stephens, showing the Iraq army being trained by U.S. instructors on how to use the Soviet designed AK-47. Towards the end of the video you can see their shot groups on the targets, proving the AK-47 can be accurate, at close range anyway:
I have a Winchester lever action rifle, some people call it a cowboy gun because it’s the rifle made famous by the old TV ‘western’ show The Rifleman. It uses .30-30 caliber (7.62mm bullet, 51mm’R’ casing) round, a much larger round than the AR-15.
U.S. Air Force photo by David Bedard, 11JUL2014.
Then there’s .308 Winchester (7.62mm bullet, 51mm casing, aka NATO 7-6-2). While it’s similar in size to the .30-30 it is considered by some military analysts to be more powerful than the .30-30, hence it’s why military and police use it for sniping and light machine guns (LMG). .jpg)
Then there’s a round made famous during World War 1 and 2; .30-06 Springfield (7.62mm bullet, 63mm long casing).
The U.S. military switched from .30-06 to .308 because the smaller casing .308 could perform just as good or better than the .30-06, depending on the weight of the bullet and type of gun powder used. This brings up another point; the power and velocity (ballistics) of a bullet can also be affected by its weight and type of charge used in the casing. But hands down the AR-15 round can’t come close to the power and velocity of the .308, .30-06 or 7mm magnum.
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