Posted on 02/27/2018 8:09:30 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
I've owned an AR and would like to get another (prefer an FN SCAR...) but my fav for the "America's Rifle" title would also be the '94. My mother found one under the floor boards of an old burned out house on the Idaho prairie. I refinished it last year and have it mounted on my dining room wall. Beautiful rifle with such a rich history.
AR15’s are our Liberty Teeth.
What’s pathetic about this is that the lib-tards are abjectly ignorant of firearms in general, which causes them to write moronic and largely unenforceable laws.
They have this besotted notion that the AR15 is an uncommonly lethal weapon, when the truth is there hasn’t been a single day in the 50+ years a 5.56NATO rifle has been in service in the US armed forces that some sober and rational individual somewhere hasn’t questioned whether it was “enough gun” to be combat effective. And it has shown repeatedly that it is “fussy” about what you feed it. Use the wrong ammunition (particularly M855) and it tends to leave clean, thru-and-thru “ice pick” wounds on gaunt, lean men. And there are drumbeats once again that it will be replaced with something larger and more (suitably) powerful.
It’s a glorified varmint cartridge. It’s nicknamed the “poodle-shooter.” It isn’t even powerful enough to be legal to hunt deer with in many states. Yet the libs are blowing up over it.
But if you ban it, there are plenty of rifles champing at the bit to take its place at the top of the “firearms food chain,” all feeding from “quick-change” detachable box magazines, and many of them chambered in much, much more powerful cartridges (PTR-91, Springfield M1A1, HK 43, yadda, yadda, yadda ...).
Just imagine the demoncrat caterwauling if the next school shooter walks into a kindergarten armed with an FN BAR and starts blasting 45-lb school kiddies with a 300WinMag. Then they’ll be trying to pass a law that all school shooters and other mental defectives MUST use an AR-15 in 5.56.
“Question posed incorrectly: ‘Is the right to own this weapon more important than someone’s life?’”
True that the question is posed incorrectly.
More correctly it would be: “Is someone’s right to own this weapon more important than another someone’s right to life?”
That leads to “Is someone’s right to own this weapon to secure their right to life more important than another someone’s right to life?” (Of course that doesn’t address any other reason for owning this weapon.)
That poses a conflict of rights.
Atrocious (these massacres are atrocities, not tragedies) as the criminal misuses of this weapon are, I’d say the default is to the right to own this weapon to secure the right to life, other rights, and perhaps for other reasons.
I believe that one of the reasons this weapon is misused as often as it is, is because it is so popular and numerous. Even so, its criminal use is not that prevalent; It’s just often “spectacular” when it happens. If it is eliminated, the default for criminal misuse will be to the next most popular and numerous weapon.
In the Parkland school case, there seems to have been a lot that wasn’t done that should have been done. All this should be addressed before anything else.
[Apparently the outrage over the AK 47 has faded.]
Amazing isn’t it. I remember that insanity by the antis back in the early to mid-90s. The AR-15’s “crime” is that it is popular because it is a modular gun system that can run right along side some of the most accurate bolt guns.
Its been available to the public for over 55 years in the civilian version. JFK was given one of the first ones from Colt.
IMHO the AK74 round is superior to the 5.56 because it tumbles more readily, making it a shreddah dontchaknow. Would love to be able to affords an SBR in that AK 74 caliber.
10-15 years ago..it was the Glock pistol that was the “boogey man” for the left...all youd was how “dangerous” the Glock was...the guns havent changed..the people have.
the “Navy Yard” shooter used a tactical shotgun....and did some serious damage..
The news media never had a problem with rifles back when their main targets were handguns.
In 1934, there was an attempt to add handguns to the anti-machine gun laws, as it was believed the BEST weapon for home defense was a rifle.
In 1968, some congressmen wanted to ban handguns as they felt a semi-auto magazine fed M-1 carbine was best for home defense.
In 1981, actress Lee Grant went on ABC and yelled..”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
HANDGUN CONTROL INC said they had no problem with rifles, they ONLY wanted to control handguns. That changed in 1988.
In 1988, Josh Sugarmann led the first attack against rifles.
Same gun
First it was small handguns they hated.
Then it was 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles they hated.
Then it was ALL handguns.
Then it was UZI rifles.
Then it was Mac-10s.
Then Tec-9s.
Then SKS rifles.
Then AK-47s.
Then it was single shot 50 cal rifles.
Then AR-15s.
Next it will be the bolt action rifle they will call a “Sniper Rifle”.
Correction. Same receiver. Everything else is different.
So they're finally getting around to me. I'm short, have knee problems, and tend to run a little bit overweight: I'm not much good in melee situations, but I can sneak with the best of them and have great distance vision. I've made my gun purchases accordingly ... 30.06 fitted with the best non-night vision scope that I could find. Zeroed for 500 yards.
Of course, I have mid-range rifles .. Henry lever-action 30-30 and shotguns, along with a CZ-52 and a Taurus Judge. But I know what I'm best with ...
And my belt buckle is a killer weapon as well.
When libs who’s minds are made up before discussing anything start injecting emotions into a debate - it’s DOA.
Those photos prompted my post.
Don’t kid yourself. To liberals, no privately owned gun is a good gun.
The use of any firearm or other possibly dangerous equipment depends on who is using it and why. There are far fewer deaths caused by firearms than by drug overdoses or vehicle crashes.
Expanded Homicide Data Table 4
Murder Victims
by Weapon, 2012–2016
2016
Handguns 7,105
Rifles 374
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