Posted on 08/31/2015 2:40:46 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
A generation ago, the American gun industry came up with a devilish new campaign to bolster declining sales — militarizing the civilian firearms market with lightly adapted versions of potent battlefield weapons like the M-16 rifle. Renamed the AR-15, this semiautomatic assault rifle has come to haunt society in the hands of criminals and the deranged, who regularly kill innocent people in high-powered mass shootings.
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"devilish new campaign" "lightly adapted versions of potent battlefield weapons" "haunt society"
The AR-15 is no more an assault rifle than the 10/22. It is a NEUTERED gun in the fact that it is not full auto, nor does it offer 3 round burst fire. In fact this gun is not allowed for hunting in many states because the SMALL ROUND is not considered in ETHICAL KILL.
Absolutely pathetic that this magazine is not bankrupt yet. I cannot wait for the day when they go belly up.
[potent battlefield weapons like the M-16 rifle. Renamed the AR-15]
Only an idiot liberal reporter believes the M-16 was renamed to an AR-15.
Stupidity reigns in the media. Which is how we got people like Brian Lyin’ Williams.
Who shops at SlopMart anyway?
It couldn’t be that the gun was popular with 3 generations of vets because they are used to it? That the army uses the design because it’s ergonomically easier to use? Nope. It’s a plot by evil gun industry!
I have seen pictures of some of those wallmartians. Not sure feel comfortable around them with an AR
havent set foot in one since the flag thing. Dollar General fills the bill.
Yet Sears, Montgomery Wards used to sell all firearms via US Mail.Times HAVE changed and getting worse.
>>I have seen pictures of some of those wallmartians. Not sure feel comfortable around them with an AR
They don’t put them out on a freakin’ endcap for people to grab ‘em and go. You still need to go through the paperwork and background check.
Local Wally’s no longer has them. They had five or six last time I was there.
Considering there are overwhelmingly more of these rifles in the hands of those who conduct themselves sanely and without violence against innocent people, I suggest it might be easier to contain the criminals and the deranged than round up all the rifles.
That said, What is a "high-powered mass shooting"?
How does that compare with a low powered mass shooting?
Define "regularly" as in "regularly kill innocent people in high-powered mass shootings"?
Sears, that’s where I got an 03A3 oar for my boat. Lost it.
I agree, but that won't happen because Carlos Slim (worth about $80 billion, richest man in Mexico by a lot, and probably richest in the world) won't let it. He needs lots of Mexicans in the US to send money home so that native Mexicans can pay more for cellphone service than we do here, with 5-10 times the per capita income. For that to happen, Slim needs a captive and influential voice in the US...and he saved them in 2008 from bankruptcy to buy the kind of coverage and editorials about immigration that he wants. As a bonus, he gets to try to disarm the Gringos.
Immigration is THE KEY ISSUE of this election - if we lose on that, we are completely done for, because there will be 30 million more Dem voters. We won't win on guns, abortion, marriage, taxes, trade, international relations, defense...you name it, and we will lose. Read about it in Ann Coulter's "Adios America."
“No one knows how many people have been killed by assault weapons on the civilian battlefront.”
Don’t let the gun grabbers define the terms. AR-15s are firearms, not weapons.
They certainly aren’t “assault weapons”.
They want to make the argument that the 2nd doesn’t protect our guns.
Good heavens, can the Times get any more hyperbolic. The number of deaths each year from AR shootings is minuscule. In 2011 just over 300 murders in the US were committed using rifles, so the number using AR’s would be considerably smaller than that. More people are killed with hammers.
If society is haunted about these rifles it's due to demagoguery such as this by political hacks in the media like the Times.
Deliberately casting your eyes on anything in the NYT is the equivalent to deliberately wading into a cesspool past your eyebrows.
Like the sun coming up in the morning, the #NationalSocialistLeft’s media organ continues to strive to disarm the people and deprive them of their civil rights.
Will they sell the M1A? What about the Ruger 10/22?
Mine has decent ammo sales from time to time. But most of the time I only go there to get my hunting tags. When I get bulk ammo, I buy from a local gun store that has great prices.
As opposed to low-powered mass shootings?
What sort of drugs do they take to come up with this garbage? Of course, liberals and the LIV crowd lap it up without questioning the absurdity.
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