How powerful assault-style rifles lead to devastating wounds 

"assault style" LMAO

Just convinced me to get a AR rifle for self defense. Thanks!

A given cartridge has no more power from a semi-auto than the same cartridge from a bolt-action if the barrel is the same.

What a great presentation from a genuine assault doctor.

The trusty old 30-30 with 170 grain soft points does more damage to Bambi than the Ar15 or the ak47.Those damned 19th century assault rifles with the black levers on them.

Doesn't know hunting rifles are easily 2x the power

Yes, bullets fired from rifles are generally faster then those fired from a handgun. Doesn't matter the type of rifle, just the caliber. Doesn't matter if it's a semiautomatic or bolt action. Semiautos rifles do not fire bullets at a higher speed than a bolt action rifle. In fact it's the opposite, most semiautos lose a little velocity over a bolt action. When you try to blur the lines you just become propaganda and lies.

So we should ban boats too? Jk, but yeah our country would be very hard to invade with all of our guns

Disliked and reported for spam/misleading title. A bolt action rifle chambered in an intermediate cartridge like 5.56x45 or 7.62x39 would have the same wounding effects.

Here 1 day after the Uvalde,Texas school shooting. Ugh. Those poor little bodies. The parents. Our country is sick. I am ill.

Then again. If you pay a doctor enough he’ll share your opinion. Jus sayin

Now I want to buy a high power rifle 😀 That's amazing. One shot needed 😎

The fundamental cause of bullet damage in a person is the amount of bullet energy absorbed in the human body. This can be achieved by bullet energy, bullet velocity, and, bullet geometric design, such as hollow points or a bullet that tumbles while penetrating.

My fnh 5.7 is a pistol and could do this...should we ban it too?. Cool story bro

Lol that happens when you shoot any rifle with a cal over .223 lmao. It doesn't matter how the rifle looks lol. It doesn't matter if its semi auto or not. Actually some of the most dangerous "assualt style weapons" arent even semi automatic.

in other news the sky is blue and water is wet.

This whole video is so full of ignorance and laced with misleading or leading wording. It is just to rile up the ignorance of those who don't have a clue about firearms to begin with.

I have a Remington model 700 bolt action rifle chambered in Remington .223. It creates an identical wound to a 5.56mm fired through an AR15. Additionally my rifle can manage higher pressure loads than an AR15. Yeah I know the two cartridges are a tiny bit different in throat length and hull thickness, but they are very similar.

Got to love the propaganda hiding behind some scientific facts and many arguments that are not fact. Like how you say that it is semi-automatic rifles when there are plenty of bolt-action rifles that shoot way more devastating rounds. And yes that's what guns and bullets were designed to do from the very beginning when they were made. In other news knives cut because they are sharp and that's what they were designed to do. And this guy talks about an AK-47 but he never even mentions which caliber. Which we all know it is an anemic caliber compared to the stuff that was used during World War II. As it turns out these calibers used in AR-15 AK-47 and AK-74 are tiny in comparison because they were mainly made to wound send it is better to wounded soldier since it takes more people to rescue him and take him out of the battle. Which is why only Full Metal Jacket bullets are used in war. You people know nothing about guns and you get someone that knows very little to make a propaganda video trying to explain something you know nothing about.

Those poor children and teachers. And God bless and hold their families and friends. The must be unbearable.

We don't leave our houses with all our junk open to intruders, so why do we leave our schools and children open to them? Armed at home armed at school!!!! Install a secure perimeter. Keeps kids safe. Keep the Constitution intact and preserve all our freedoms from tyranny.

I'm glad he's not my doc, this doc doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. At least his stupidity came out early when he told us that a bullet from a semi auto vs a non semi auto.

It's hilarious how a doctor making a simple explanation of basic physics turns into a youtube brawl of, "We want our gunz, y'all!!!!"

Everything he says applies to all rifle bullets regardless of what weapon or rifle it was fired from. None of this is new. Actually when bullets were originally jacketed even though the velocity increased wounding was less.

I found the title misleading. 556 is at the bottom of the chart of rifle cartridge power. 556 was chosen bc it wounds and with its reduced power does not overheat barrels when firing a high volume of shots. I think comparing 556 with a 30-378 or 300 ultra mag shows much higher levels of energy and damage. Also important is to explain how rifles are typically much more powerful then pistols, this is normal not sinister. I still feel all bullets are potentially lethal(matter of penetration of vital tissue and not energy)and you should avoid being hit by any.

Tell me you learned everything about ballistics and gunshot damage from Google without telling me directly:

A trauma surgeon =/= a tactical professional. He shouldn't be your source on "assault weapons". The wounds and care? Yes. The weapon? No.

This entire video is misleading from the title! "Assault-style rifles" are not the only rifles chambered in these rounds. .223 Remington and 5.56x45 NATO (there are many other examples of rounds used both by civilians and military) are essentially the same round (not exactly, but close enough to swap out most of the time). There have been bolt action rifles chambered in this cartridge for at least 60 years. The "devasating wounds" are not created because the firearm is a semi-automatic rifle; they are created because the round is traveling at a very high velocity. It can be fired from any number of platforms. I hate watching/listening people that hate guns try to explain why guns are bad. If you can't be correct at least try to be honest.

30 round calibur magazine clip....fully semi auto

Ban cigarettes for what they do to ppl who are victims of second hand smoking. Ban alcohol for all the dui deaths. Ban pools for kids drowning and so on and so on.

Semi auto is semi auto, no matter if it’s from a handgun or a rifle, or carbine, or sub machine gun, all are semi auto, and shoot as fast as you can pull that trigger.

"Assault weapon" is gibberish. It is intended to sound like assault rifle but is not an assault rifle. It is no more deadly than any hunting rife. In fact, it is less powerful than most hunting rifles. Assault rifles use less powerful cartridges so the are useful for automatic fire and so the soldier can carry more ammo. It is a military weapon that is illegal for civilians. "Assault weapon" is a vague term created by politicians for political reasons. It mostly refers to rifles that look like military weapons without being one. A bullet from a typical hunting rifle will do more damage to you.

When shooting bad guys these are the characteristic you want so you are the one that stays alive.

308s, 30-06, and 300 winmag do substantially more damage than an AR 15 and AK 47 in their conventional 5.56 and 7.62X39 FMJ loads and get the hydrostatic shock effect all of the time and at 300 yards vs the AR 15 at 50 yards and in.

"A bullet from a semi automatic rifle also creates a temporary cavity" yeah, so does any of bullet from any other rifle! Terminal ballistics have no correlation to the action of a gun, stop fear mongering that semi automatic bullets are more powerful cause they aren't!

So many facts wrong here. My deer rifle is more powerful than many "Assault style" rifles. Just remember appearances do more damage than caliber size.

Absolute hype. Zero difference between semiautomatic, bolt action, lever action, etc. Yellow journalism and fear mongering at it's worst.

"The speed of an assault weapon..." Just how fast can you throw an AK?

Yep, I'm SO glad I don't own guns, and NEVER will! YIKES! 😱

What does a semi auto have to do with power? Does a bolt action slow it down? These people are ridiculous

Rifle wounds are deadly. Listening to the Medical Examiners describe the wounds caused to the victims of the Parkland (MSD) School shooting was horrific. One victim got shot in the right shoulder. The bullet traveled under the collar bone and severed his right subclavian vein and artery. Entered the pericardium lacerating the right main bronchis , lacerating the aorta then passing through the left side of the heart and exiting the lower left portion of the heart. All this damage caused by ONE high velocity rifle round entering the left shoulder area smh.

The narrator is earnest, and the music is sad. It must be true.

I own handguns that have both similar and even greater power.

The speed of bullets fired from *EVERY RIFLE IS FASTER THAN A HANDGUN.* The semi-automatic feature of the rifle has NOTHING to do with how fast the bullet goes, only how the next round gets chambered to be fired. This is such a misleading video, but hey....it's WaPo.

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THE EXACT SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO THE 2 OR 3 GUYS RAIDING YOUR HOME. Funny how they only say this happens to YOU when you are shot with a rifle.

So...what racial group murders disproportionately regardless of firearm or weapon used?

Bro most hand guns are semi auto stop using that word likes it’s just ars and aks I can’t stand shills

Went right to the comments to see what the "experts" all had to say.

I know what I should generally expect from a Washington post video but trying to convince me that semi automatic is faster than semi automatic in the first 20 seconds??

Good! That’s the point. I didn’t spend $1600 on my AR for someone to say,” ouchie, that stung!” Dummies

Scientifically you doctor was right . I agree . I understand the ballistic wound perfectly ! It’s the law of kinematic physics . I shot 5.56 7.62x39 and .308 through pork shoulders many times. Sounds good !! The number one choice for self defense is either the M16 or AK47 platform 👍👍👍👍

*any rifle causes wounds like this. In fact your grandpa’s bolt action hunting rifle does a lot more damage than intermediate cartridge “assault style” rifles

As a proud blunderbuss owner I am offended by the thought that bullets should tickle

wtf why is this legal

GOP lawmaker. My kids are in privat school. No problem here

Rifle rounds aren't designed to tumble on impact. All spitzer, or pointed projectiles have their center of gravity located towards the base. This means they have a tendency to want to flip around and fly with their base, their center of mass, forward. The rifling in the bore of the rifle which gives the rifle its name imparts a spin on the projectile to give it gyroscopic stability. But it is only stable in air. When it hits a media more dense than air, like tissue, it will once again become unstable and have a tendency to yaw, so it can flip around and fly with its center of mass forward. Rifles are given pointed projectiles to make them more aerodynamic, so they cut through the air easier without losing as much velocity. The tendency of the round to flip in tissue is just a side effect. The reason yawing in tissue increases tissue damage is because it increases the amount of surface area exposed perpendicular to the vector of the bullet's flight. Remember caliber, the diameter of the bullet is important, for this same reason. More exposed surface area displaces more tissue and imparts more energy. Energy is only part of the story. How energy is used is at least as important as the amount of energy a projectile has. Velocity is a critical component to how energy reacts to tissue. Living tissue is elastic. Some organs more so than others. But a lot of the tissue in the human body is elastic enough to deform and stretch when hit by a projectile. At the velocity handguns operate at, tissue will stretch and deform, then return to normal with little to no damage. Displacing this tissue still took energy, but this energy didn't contribute to wounding because it didn't damage tissue, it just displaced it. Most handgun projectile operate around the speed of sound, about 900 to 1200 fps. At the velocity a rifle projectile operates at, typically 2400 to 3000+ fps, tissue can not stretch far or fast enough. It tears, the high pressure wave around the bullet is able to damage tissue, literally killing cells, often for several inches beyond the path of the bullet. A .45 ACP will put a hole some fraction on an inch through you. A 5.56 round will blow a hole the size of a tennis ball through you. We saw someone's bicep turned into a red mist in Kenosha by a high velocity .224 caliber projectile; literally a fist sized chunk of muscle turned into atmosphere, just gone. No handgun round will do that, because while the bullet is much bigger, it is not going fast enough to use its energy like a high velocity rifle. Something like one in three people shot through the chest with a handgun dies. Whereas one in three people shot through the chest with a rifle lives. Rifles are orders of magnitude more effective than handguns not just because they possess more energy, but because they operate at a velocity high enough for the energy to contribute to wounding.

It’s called Armor light rifle, SMF

I wasn't aware that the actual firearm was faster than a handgun, that's crazy. But really jackasses, an intermediate cartridge isn't very powerful.

An insane amount of biased bullshit. Nobody is arguing about the effect of bullets here, but what the hell does it have to do with what weapon it came from?

This just convinced me I should get a AR SBR. Thanks bias media

What I learned from this: do not water ski or you might be shot.

This is remarkably dishonest. It has been thoroughly debunked over and over. This is just what ANY rifle does. It has nothing to do with any type of rifle in general.

Velocity doesn't necessarily mean more damage, there's a thing called "overpenetration," and full metal jacket rounds tend to leave permanent cavities the size of the bullet diameter or caliber of the projectile, unless they hit a bone or . In any case, a hunting rifle round typically has 2 to 3 times the kinetic energy at the muzzle of the round used in an AR-15, and they carry that energy across longer distances, on top of having a larger bullet. They also tend to have more desirable wounding characteristics, which is why hunting laws often prohibit the use of smaller projectiles like the .223 Remington. Projectile design is also an enormous factor, and the doctor completely left out the behavior of jacketed hollow point ammunition, which expands on impact, creating drag and a larger permanent wound channel. Most police departments use JHP ammunition in their handguns for this reason, due to increased permanent cavitation. There's also no clear indication on how the temporary cavity translates to wounding. That said, the .223 Remington/5.56mmx45mm is a very effective cartridge beneath 100 meters range with a 16 inch barrel. It's just not anywhere near as effective as grandpa's hunting rifle chambered in .30-06 or .308 Remington.

An "assault rifle?"

It doesn't matter it's a hunting rifle or a semi auto. Jeez the propaganda is intense. IT IS THE CARTRIDGE AND BARREL LENGTH.. NOT THE GUN

This is caliber specific, not firearm specific. This is why so-called "assault weapon bans" are ineffective in preventing this type of wound if were discussing rifle wounds. Ask the DoJ about the efficacy of the previous ban....aka zero effect in lowering violent crime.

Hunting rifles are more devastating than modern sporting rifles.

Bottom line bullets were not meant to tickle.

Semiautomatic is any gun that you can shoot more than once that isn't a revolver. Shotguns can be semiautomatic.

Now discuss what alcohol does to the human body: liver disease, heart disease, a long list of cancers, etc.. Discuss the 140,000 US deaths per year from alcohol. Discuss what happens to the human body in the 10,000 to 13,000 US drunk driving fatalities per year -- many of which are "mass casualty" events that include innocent children. Washington Post, please push to outlaw wine, because it is the most lethal alcoholic beverage, due to the shape of the bottle, the composition of the cork, the high-capacity wine glass, and deadly accessories, like coasters.

i hope hes a good doctor, he is no ballistic expert. i don't think hes ever seen a gun fired even on TV. a round from an AR is exactly the same as one fired in a bolt action. the tumble is a total myth that use to be they "tumble in flight" myth but now they claim they are little blenders or explode. everything else he described is damage that every bullet ever made can do from any gun. the main round used in an AR is to weak to legally use for hunting. most pistols are more powerful, 357 or 44mag 10mm? those you can use on bear legally but not the AR in 223/556

Any testing behind this???

556 is considered to weak to be a hu ting round. This is all bs.

This is an amazing rifle to own for self defense!

This is why I buy Yaw On Impact bullets..

it's horrendous!

So much ignorance in one video.

The ignorance from the doctor is astounding. He seems to have never studied basic ballistics data or ever seen ballistic testing performed for any common caliber used in rifles. Also there is no such thing as “assault rifle bullets”...5.56 Nato and .308 (7.62) are the two most common rounds used in semi-automatic rifles (note, they are NOT assault rifles...that’s a term referring to military guns not sold to civilians) and both those rounds DO NOT TUMBLE or turn sideways when they hit flesh !! lol

Really miss that dislike button.👎🏻

The bullet from the semi-automatic is less destructive that the single shot bolt action. Also, I wasn't' aware that Assault rifles was the appropriate phrase used to describe ballistics.

Did he say the bullet hits you sideways?????

Who are we trying to scare here with this BS? Bows and arrows do the same thing; just slower. Cars and trucks too, but bigger. Decent film though.

Handgun speed has also kinda caught up. 5.7, 22tcm etc.

Wow talk about misinformation

this video is vastly inaccurate.... hey put this white coat on when you record this

..oh for fucks sake...no...

Murica

Sweet! I’m glad I have my AR 15s 🤭

Same. Just throw me in the trash.

TYPICAL PROCTOLOGIST

Hoping Ppl are paying attention !!!

I'm 25 seconds into the video and technically already a lot of inaccurate information/terminology related to the firearms and ammunition being discussed. That being said some of the concepts that relate to the terminal ballistics of the bullet are indeed accurate

Stay in your lane doc

Terrifying just

Nice hit piece on semiautomatic rifles. Shame for you and your pseudo doctor that much of your information is erroneous or only partially correct. A partially correct "fact" is almost completely wrong.

O.M.G

I hate how they try to label the increased damage an assault rifle thing... It's a rifle thing, any hunting rifle is just as fast and is gonna do the samething. Hell there's calibers used for hunting that would do even more damage and they're not "assault" weapons.

waste of time watching this misinformation --

Just watch Kyle Rittenhouse at work.