Posted on 08/19/2024 5:46:34 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
YouTube link: Eleven-year-old Autumn Fry handling an AR15 rifle
I have shot many thousands of rounds through both.
The advantage the AR plat form has is it is just a lot more popular. As it is use my the military and a lot of police agency’s.
I like the mini 14 better.
“The advantage the AR plat form has is it is just a lot more popular. As it is use my the military and a lot of police agency’s.”
It’s the only advantage, the ability to share and swap mags.
And it’s a very substantial one.
Old Boy is rocking a 580 series Mini with Tech Sights. Ruger almost completely remade the rifle when they started producing rifles with serial numbers starting with 580. Same action, tighter tolerances, and a thicker, tapered barrel. Hucks brass into the next county. They’re pricey, but the newer models can hold their own.
I love my ARs, but there’s still just something about the Mini I truly adore. Also, it should be of note that L. James “Jim” Sullivan was the man who helped Bill Ruger scale down & simplfy the M-14 to make the Mini-14; Sullivan had previously worked with Eugene Stoner to scale the AR-10 down into the AR-15.
Bet the fibbies love keeping tabs on who responds to threads lkke this. If I was a mod I would yank threads like these. We all know most of us dig guns. The object is they want to know who declares them. Forewarned is forearmed.
I've never liked a Mini-14 enough to buy one.
The best way to address the firepower concern is therefore not to try to outlaw or license many millions of older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing effort of staggering proportions) but to prohibit the possession of high capacity magazines. By a simple, complete and unequivocal ban on large capacity magazines, all the difficulty of defining 'assault rifle' and 'semi-automatic rifles' is eliminated. The large capacity magazine itself, separate or attached to the firearm, becomes the prohibited item. A single amendment to Federal firearms laws could effectively implement these objectives.
William B. Ruger
But many Hunters in various states may not realize laws have been passed that make firearms they own are niw subject to registration. Just kind of a loose lips hazard in threads like this imho.
Back in the day, a Mini-14 was $350 and an AR was $1500.
Nowadays it’s the exact opposite.
Both are chambered in 5.56, even if they used to stamp .223 on the receivers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLI_rR5CvDI
Only 6 states and DC require firearms registration.
Buy both. Imo. And both 223 & 5.56 ammo. If either jams you got backup.
Maybe I will move to Nevada.
on what criteria?
if the Mini took AR mags it’d be one thing...
but ARs are like a Barbie wi accessories
and Minis just don’t have the optional bling-bling
What is the total at 50 cents a round?
For the past 4 years the ATF has been going into gun shops and scanning form 4473s to compile a “searchable database” that’s totally not a gun registry. They already keep tabs on what a lot of people have.
Yes and they also want to know if I might sell anything to you. As if that is against the law.
They were the D-Team when it came to marksmanship. I think there was one episode where someone actually got shot. Otherwise it was “spray ‘n pray” all day long.
It’s one of the stupid realities of gun control in NYS that the AR 15 is illegal while the Mini 14 is legal.
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