“Gun guys” (and gals) across the country can be reliably found rolling their eyes when leftist politicians fearmonger about firearms. Former President Joe Biden was a particularly egregious offender.

“A .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out … a 9 millimeter bullet blows the lung out of the body” was a real doozy.

“What happens now with that assault weapon, with an AR-15, it goes in the body, and it explodes in the body,” made about as much sense as Biden’s assertion that the most effective means of home defense is to “fire a shotgun through the front door.” 

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It turns out that the only people more embarrassingly uninformed about how firearms work than Democratic politicians are the increasingly numerous and painfully annoying online conspiracy theorist “influencers.” Tech writer Mike Masnick famously said that “everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works,” and I would like to take a moment to explain a few basic realities regarding firearms and ballistics.

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