Crossposted on NewsBusters:
The following is a portion of AR-15 inventor Jim Sullivan’s interview, with HBO's David Scott, as it was aired on the May 24 edition of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Miller has accused the program of deceptively editing his interview):
DAVID SCOTT: Keane says the difference is clear, that military assault rifles are fully automatic, able to fire at speeds like this with a single pull of the trigger. While the AR-15 is semi-automatic, thus only able to fire at speeds like this. But the designer of the gun says the AR-15 is every bit as deadly as its military counterpart.
SCOTT TO JIM SULLIVAN: The lethality of the AR-15.
JIM SULLIVAN: Right.
SCOTT: Is that reduced in the civilian semi-automatic mode?
SULLIVAN: No.
SCOTT: It’s not?
SULLIVAN: It’s the same.
SCOTT: The same?
SULLIVAN: In fact the gun is functioning exactly the way the military model is in semi-automatic.
SCOTT: And even the U.S. Army’s field manual advises soldiers to fire in semi-automatic mode during combat, because of its greater accuracy.