Want a good laugh? Check out this info graphic put out by BBC that Saavedra found. There are plenty of statistics that can be given that easily disprove the graphic. I would simply like to add that anyone that has actually fired multi rounds thru an AR knows that this rifle gets really hot after firing say 100 rounds over the course of an hour. It is not made with the tolerances needed to be full auto (it would seize).  Read the comments. They are great.  @RealSaavedra Holy crap, this is a real graphic published by BBC It claims that a semi-auto AR-15 can magically fire 10X faster than an AK-47 It also claims that a semi-auto AR-15 can fire 250 more rounds per minute than a fully automatic M-16 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBQLZ1BXYAUY_kJ?format=jpg&name=small https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1158563549058412544?s=21