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You use it compared to other rifles? >> its softer shooting than most. it doesnt have a lot of recoil and almost feels like shooting like an air gun, as opposed to something thats really heavy. >> reporter: bryan also likes the ar-15 style because he says theyre easier and safer to handle than handguns so you dont need to spend as much time and money on training. >> the thing about easy that matters is that when you defend yourself, its more accurate. so if youre in a home and your family is all...

>> is the republican message neutralizing the message from people like dr. guerrero? democrats know from polls theyre winning in the court of public opinion, so why hasnt anything changed? >> absolutely not going to neutralize what we heard from dr. guerrero. because what the doctor did today was illustrate explicitly how the guns are being used against children, against children and schools. and with his graphic experience with this, hes laying it out for the public and for the republicans who ...

Understand the. >> the first thing i want to say is that i want to agree with ryan. the problem that we have is that this debate goes into one of two directions, and the vast majority of the country is left out of it. its either the direction of people that say that nobody should have a gun, guns are bad, anybody that carries a gun is crazy, whatever. unlike my experience or ryans, which is you bring your kids up, we show them how to use a gun, use it for hunting or target practice, that is what...

>> matthew dowd, you have written about gun culture myths, myths in america, help us understand the. >> the first thing i want to say is that i want to agree with ryan. the problem that we have is that this debate goes into one of two directions, and the vast majority of the country is left out of it. its either the direction of people that say that nobody should have a gun, guns are bad, anybody that carries a gun is crazy, whatever. unlike my experience or ryans, which is you bring your kids u...

It. he is in the pocket of the nra. >> so, when you think about who would want to have a military style assault weapon, what is the point of them for anything other than killing? hunters do not use them to kill bambi, right? no hunter is going to go out and use a gun like that. what is the point of having them but for to kill? >> these weapons are meant for two things, target practice and killing people. lets be very clear. the federal government needs to create an assault weapons ban. in the al...

Have shot _ those weapons. ive held guns and i have shot guns. you dont hunt with an ar, _ have shot guns. you dont hunt with an ar. you — have shot guns. you dont hunt with an ar, you shouldnt... i havent shot— an ar, you shouldnt... i havent shot deer, — an ar, you shouldnt... i havent shot deer, just birds, but you dont need _ shot deer, just birds, but you dont need those — shot deer, just birds, but you dont need those things. they are for attacking — need those things. they are f...

Buddies invited me to a maryland shooting range to eat some wings and mumble sauce, have a little target practice, and talk about the city we all grew up in. >> ive been waiting to eat in d.c. since i landed. if youre not from this area, you dont know what mumble sauce. >> oh, yeah. >> its like another layer of soul food from d.c. >> d.c. careouts are basically chinese take-out joints. its irresistible, and it makes you crave wings every night of the night. >> so you spent a lot of time in carry...

>> when people see me, most people see me, they think i smoke weed. they associate the locks with smoking marijuana. i dont smoke marijuana. i was a law enforcement officer for 28 years, retired. my sergeant, they asked me to do some undercover work in buying narcotics. >> so you guys were all police in d.c. >> they were. >> i was. >> 25 years and a half. >> wow. are you from d.c.? >> yeah. >> and you became a cop. lets talk about that. >> vernon and a couple of his buddies invited me to a maryl...

Staying within the same platform or family of pistols can go a long way in making you a more consistent shooter.

Ben brown has been to meet some volunteers training in kyiv. even if youve never picked up a gun in your life, your country needs you. thats the message to ukrainians of all ages. in a disused factory somewhere in the capital, kyiv, its time for target practice for the men and women of a battalion of volunteers. very soon theyll be heading to the front line, where theyll be desperately needed reinforcements. juliana was a horse trainer before the war. herfriend, alexandra, was a tattooist. in a ...