STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): The Orlando shooter did not use an automatic weapon but somebody forgot to tell left-wing celebrities like Susan Sarandon.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): She wrote, “Prayers are not enough. Time for a ban on automatic weapons. There is only one reason they exist and that is to kill our fellow man.” ... What's your reaction to that? These politicians -- many politicians I should say, and many celebrities are totally misinformed.
LARRY KEANE: You're completely right. They are totally misinformed, they're ignorant, and they don't know what they're talking about. Modern sporting rifles, based on the AR-15 platform, are semi-automatic rifles, and semi-automatic rifles they have been in civilian possession for well over 100 years.
DOOCY: Sure.
KEANE: It is not an automatic weapon. It is not an assault rifle, which is an automatic weapon, and there is no such thing as an assault weapon. That is a purely political term invented by the gun control community in an effort to ban semi-automatic firearms.
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DOOCY: But like you said earlier, “assault weapon” is a pejorative political term. Vox, the blog -- website, put up some images of the AR-15, and people blew up the internet, because they had said, “Wait, the average person can't get a grenade launcher for that.”
KEANE: Right. It's a semi-automatic rifle. It functions no different than any other semi-automatic rifle. It is not an assault weapon. That is an invented, political term by the gun control community expressly for the purpose trying to ban semi-automatic rifles. If we make people to think they're machine guns, it'll be easier to ban, that's what Josh Sugarmann from the Violence Policy Center said, and so that's a false term.