“The Aurora shooter carried an AR-15. Does any military in the world buy, or even consider this weapon to meet their specifications for a military assault rifle?”
Yes, the AR-15 is just a civilian designation for our M-16 series of rifles (probably very similiar to the M16A2). The only main diffence is that the civilian version will only fire in semi-auto mode.
Therefore, the AR-15 is a military grade weapon and specifically protected by the 2nd Ammendment under the term “Arms” as it was intended.
The founders were very suspicious of standing “regulars” and prefered an armed citizenry that could be called upon for militia duty. Even though, for the most part, we have lost our distrust in “regulars”, the 2nd Ammendment still stands and cannot just be conveinently ignored by revisionists. IF they want to take away “assault rifles” from civilians, then it would, IMO, require the repeal of the 2nd. That is not going to happen. Should that day come it were repealed, that would be the total end of America.
For as the bumper sticker reads:
“An armed man is a citizen, while an unarmed one is a subject.”
I understand the differences. My question is whether the limitation of only firing semi-auto would disqualify it from consideration as an acceptable assault rifle for military use in actual practice. Does any army in the world send their soldiers out into the field armed with these rifles as their main battle weapon?