“ The Mini-14 in .223 is no longer a viable option since a 5.56mm AR-15 is the same price these days.”
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One advantage the Mini-14 has over the AR-15 is; the AR-15 will likely be put on the Dems ban list. The Mini-14 perhaps not.
ALL guns will be in the ban list at some point soon.
We'll hear a lot of threats as the "deadline" looms and compliance is low.
The Mini 14 was on the list of guns Feinstein wanted to ban in 2013 in her anti gun rights Bill.
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban picking up every one of them up...Mr. and Mrs. America turn ‘em all in I would have done it. I could not do it. The votes were not there.”
February 5th, 1995. Diane Feinstein on 60 Minutes
The votes are there now.