CLAIM: During his Tuesday gun control push, President Biden said that AR-15 bullets “blow up” once they get inside the human body.
Verdict: False. The AR-15 round is not designed to disintegrate in the body.
During a speech to union workers in Durham, North Carolina, Biden declared about AR-15 bullets, “It’s not just merely the weapon, in terms that it’s semiautomatic in effect, but the velocity with which it comes out of that muzzle, what it does when it hits the body, most bullets would go just straight through and out, but it blows up once its inside your body”:
Biden says that a bullet from an AR-15 “blows up when it’s inside your body.” pic.twitter.com/KMgz1JHGl0
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
In reality, the AR-15 round — a 5.56 bullet — is not designed to disintegrate in the body.
Breitbart News spoke with rifle maker George Urmston, owner of Battle Tested Equipment, about the AR-15 bullet. We recapped what Biden said about the bullet…
