OMG, my head just exploded!! This guy's so full of BS, I hardly know where to start. The dead giveaway is his ignorance of firearms terminology and facts. Calling semi-auto's, automatic and saying the AR-15 is what is issued to troops in the sandbox. And what the heck is a 3-magazine clip? Never heard of that but it must be something because it, along with its "ghost run" have a 3,600 rpm cyclical rate of fire. Now that's something.
Earlier this morning I saw a short clip of this video on another site and my response to the OP's suggestion that the senator in the video is a politician and people believe what these people say, was this;
"If you had added the news media, specifically the talking heads types, and the entertainment industry, you would have completed the picture (could also add in some police chiefs as well). The general public is largely ignorant of things gun related so they naturally assume that people like this senator know what they're talking about, as well as the others I added to the list. They take as gospel what these people say.
And the really sad part is many gun people have also adopted these fallacies as fact. How many times have you heard supposed gun people call box magazines, clips? Or the one that really raises my dander; AR's being called assault rifles... along with the semi-auto AK variants. Gun people are supposed to know better but frankly when you hear them use these terms, you know they have drank the koolaide.
Make it your business to correct these people whenever given the opportunity... gun people or not. If they're gun people, explain to them that their ignorance only feeds the anti's in their quest for total disarmament."
If we don't counter this nonsense when we see or hear it, we only help to dig the hole deeper into which our rights will be buried.