Posted on 02/19/2021 7:43:59 AM PST by Onthebrink
With President Joe Biden in the White House and Democrat control of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, owners of AR-15 and similar firearms have a valid reason for concern. Such guns have been targeted for legislation including registration, increased background checks, and even outright bans.
Many who want to see such firearms banned try to use terms that, while sound scary, don’t really apply to the AR-15.
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The FIRST actions of a Communist takeover are taking away the guns of the people.
Uh, what is this ‘war’ they are talking about?
The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.
And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?
Do they know something they aren’t telling us?
I believe Clyde, of Bonnie and Clyde, used a cut down BAR,
a full auto 30.06 rifle
It’s black...therefore it’s evil....in the minds of the Libs.
A truck is a weapon of war.
A bat is a weapon of war.
For that matter a rock is a weapon of war.
I dont care what they think it is. It is a legal firearm and if the red states have the guts they’ll nullify each and every friggan law these SOBs in FT Apache DC try to push.
Get in contact with your state reps..
What color is it and does it have a pistol grip.
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As far as I know the AR15 has never been issued to any Army.
Good Point!
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We missed the Memo.
They should just stop pontificating and come get them... one round at a time.
Shotgun training is required in the Navy for close combat onboard ship. My son’s first weapon certification in the Navy was the shotgun, and he was a firefighter.
A home defense weapon, maybe? Or a sniper’s tool for short range elimination of threats?
Anyone who lives on or near the southern border, in the rural lands, in the inner cities where home invasions and gang violence rules should have weapons of war.
Of course not.
No country has EVER used the AR-15 as a military weapon. Not one.
No country has used a semiautomatic rifle as its main military rifle in at least 50 years.
It is neither an assault rifle (capable of automatic fire by definition) nor a “weapon of war” and never has been. As usual, the gun grabbers are just lying.
Your premise is interesting but in t=reality, the AR15 indeed was used- The AR15 semi auto was a modification of the original AR15 platform- it was designed as a select fire weapon by Fairchild/Armalite/Gene Stoner then obtained by Colt.
In fact, in OSUT at Fort Benning in 1983 I was issued an M16A1 rifle built on a GM Hydromatic Division AR15 lower.... Just saying.
So, how many wars have used gas operated, magazine fed, semi-automatic rifles?
Consider:
The SKS
The M1 Garand
The Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917
The point is not to look at individual cosmetic models, rather to look at the operation of the firearm.
Individual fired vs crew served
operation (breach loaded, bolt action, pump, blow back, gas, etc)
Feed mechanism (single shot, magazine, belt, etc)
Not even looking at caliber. So under that “definition” of assault weapon, every single weapon in the world today has been or is currently being used as a weapon of war. The intent of my argument is to show the liberal shock of a “weapon of war” ... LITERALLY applies to every single type of weapon from rocks to rockets and includes the bolt action hunting rifle that the liberals are currently holding up as virtuous in comparison to the modern sporting rifle.
That being said, I understand your point specific to the AR-15 that was developed and sold to civilians before being modified and sold as the M-16 to the military markets. Further to your statement that it has never been issued by any army as a standard weapon, I believe you are correct.
The AR-15 has been used by the USAF and by the US Army. General Curtis E. Lemay ordered a batch of 8,500 AR-15 for the USAF. The following year he tried to order an additional 80,000 but the order was countermanded by McNamara for munitions logistics reasons.
In October 1961 ARPA sent 10 AR-15s to Special Forces in Vietnam followed by 1,000 more in early ‘62. Colt had purchased ArmaLite in ‘59. The first Army batch of 85,000 M16 s was ordered in ‘63. They were Colt 601s and 602s, without forward assists and were Marked as ArmaLite AR-15s and 2,300+ were delivered in ‘64. An additional 59,000 were delivered in early ‘65 Nd it was in these that the marking XM-16E1 began to appear. ALL USAF and USA ARs were selective fire Eventually, all AR uppers were replaced with forward assist uppers. The old uppers were scrapped. I know of no issue weapon that retained an AR upper. It may be that a tool room or prototype weapon retained an old uppers but that would be all. Got to be rare as hens teeth, if at all.
Right after this came the change from IMR to Ball C2 -powder and subsequent changing out of all the buffers. I hated the summer of ‘65. Swapping uppers and buffers plus having to bust up the old buffers. Old buffers can be had, I have two. Old buffers with Ball C2 gave rates of fire upto 1,100 RPM. I would choose to err on the side of reliability and not use the older buffers, too often.
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