Out of respect for the families, the community and the ongoing police investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment or participate in media requests at this time.
The NSSF helps write firearms safety and instruction standards and promotes shooting sports, such as hunting, skeet and trap, and target shooting. But the organization is also a powerful lobby that advocates for specific positions on gun control issues. They have faced off against New York Mayor Michael Bloombergs attempts to crack down on guns in New York City, have made the case that banning high-capacity magazines is an ineffective policy and have published fact sheets arguing that the term assault weapon is an erroneous term for a semi-automatic modern sporting rifle.
The term assault weapon was conjured up by anti-gun legislators to scare voters into thinking these firearms are something out of a horror movie, the NSSF wrote in its fact sheet. In fact, the Colt AR-15 and Springfield M1A, both labeled assault weapons, are the rifles most often used for marksmanship competitions in the United States. And their cartridges are standard hunting calibers, useful for game up to and including deer.
According to the medical examiners report, the main gun used by Adam Lanza, the suspected shooter, was a .223 caliber Bushmaster, a carbine similar to Colts AR-15 and M-4. The .223 caliber round is the same size as that used by troops in combat, and according to Bushmasters fact sheet the muzzle velocity for the rifle is 2,200 feet per second, 700 feet per second slower than 2,900 feet per second muzzle velocity of the military version, according to Colt figures from 2003.
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