by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
When I first read about the "JR-15," a child-sized semi-automatic weapon that fires 22-caliber bullets, I assumed that it was a story from The Onion which had somehow managed to make it into the national press - so I held my incredulity in check until I could see whether Snopes.com verified this horror story or not.
That now has happened and Snopes is out with an affirmation stating that this new low in parenting is "true." The gun, which is modeled on the AR-15, the murder weapon of choice for mass shooters everywhere, is really out there and it is being marketed toward children! The manufacturer's website states that the JR-15 "looks, feels, and operates just like Mom and Dad's gun."
According to Snopes, the owner of the company that manufactures the JR-15 describes it as a "scaled down AR-15," hence, one supposes, the alliteration in the naming of the new weapon. The company's website also, according to Snopes, notes that the JR-15 has "blow-back semi-automatic action." Wow, just wow!
According to a current article in Barron's magazine entitled "US Gunmaker Unveils Semi-automatic Rifle Marketed to Kids,":
"The JR-15 is only 31 inches (80 centimeters) long, weighs less that 2.5 pounds (one kilogram) and comes with magazines of five or 10 rounds of 22 caliber bullets. It was released in mid-January with a price tag of $389."
So with the massacre of the fourth graders at Uvalde less than a year in our national rearview mirror of shame, and the killings of the first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary less than a decade past, this is where we are as a nation.
How sad and shameful is that?
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