Posted on 08/16/2022 4:37:49 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly
"No American Should Own an AR-15
Michael Yon
No American should own an AR-15. Reasons are obvious.
Let’s walk through it.
American children should not be exposed to guns until they are old enough to run and climb on and off a couch without assistance. Running and the couch maneuver is proof of dexterity. This is required to begin teaching shooting stance and martial arts. Plastic guns only until age six.
On sixth birthday, present with Red Rider BB gun. Lever action only. None of that hyper-velocity machine gun scuba-tank stuff. That will put an eye out. BB gun marksmanship should be practiced while fishing. BB impacts on water provide velocity and drop feedback, max range feedback, and wind effects.
Do not shoot at birds unless you plan to eat them. If the child shoots a bird, get the belt out. Hurt bird = belt hurts butt. Cause and effect.
Issue one BB at a time.
This teaches fire discipline.
Kids with rich parents and automatic BB guns learn bad habits. One hundred shots and no hits. Slow down. You got one shot. Make it count.
At age 9, graduate to single shot .22 rifle. No pistols. Start actual hunting of rabbits and small game for dinner. Hunting teaches stalking and respect for the power and responsibility for everything that flows from that barrel. Single shot only. Go hunting with one bullet.
At age 10, learn to catch baby alligators by hand. Avoid all gators larger than the forearm. All gators are loaded at all times. Teach snake identification and know the quickest way to the hospital. Catch all the snakes you want.
Keep children away from the internet. If 10-year-old complains that other kids play with the internet, say you are not other kids. Get out of the house, grab the hatchet and chop some firewood and put it in the fireplace for tonight. Then get out of the house and do not return without catching a wild animal with your hands. Bring it back alive and unharmed. The neighbor girl is not a wild animal. Her father has a chainsaw. If you want to get to know his daughter, go help him chop wood.
At 12, can hunt alone with single shot .22 or single shot 20 gauge. Introduce to pistols. Permitted to hand-catch gators not greater in length than the arm.
At 14, can fire AR-15 rented at the range. No AR-15s allowed in the house.
At 16, lever action rifle of any caliber up to 45/70. Permitted to hunt gators of any size using almost all means necessary, but no explosives. Only traps, hands, hooks, or rifles.
At 17, time for an ‘AR-style’ rifle, but it must be .300 Blackout or bigger. No AR-15 caliber 5.56. The 5.56 is a child’s caliber. At 17, you are a young man and expected to do man stuff with man calibers. 5.56 is for children and the US military. Green tips, pink tips, black tips — take this tip: 5.56 is for children.
By age 17, the caliber should be .300 Black or hotter. .300 Blackout is for men. Average men. A man’s man uses 7.62 x 51, or one of those new exotics that all the Delta Force guys like. None of that 7.62 x 39 nonsense. This is not Red Dawn, and you ain’t a Wolverine. 7.62 x 39 is great for poor revolutionary commies. We ain’t poor, revolutionary, or commies.
At 17, begin night firing and with optics day and night. If you can’t handle 7.62x51, get back in the gym or chop down an acre of wood.
At 24, fly A-10 with 30mm, and if you get shot down, you know how to sling some small lead.
And now some personal observations on 5.56. I’ve seen many people close and personal shot with various calibers. Mostly 5.56 and 7.62x39. 5.56 is not a serious combat round and never should have been carried by millions of Americans for several generations.
Witness this Al Qaeda shot four times at point blank, including splattering a testicle. The terrorist, with one remaining testicle and gut-shot, still did admirable hand-to-hand. And did not die for eight months. Gotta respect a man who can get an egg shot off and still try to bite you. But this never would have happened with 7.62x51.
Gates of Fire. Read it, and ditch the children’s calibers".
https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/no-american-should-own-an-ar-15
These days, one would do well to at least get set up with a single-stage press, learn to handload, and then save their empties. It ought to be as important as eye and ear protection.
Also, go ahead and have all the 9mm's, fancy .357 Sigs and stuff that you want, but there is still value in the revolver and the lever gun. One is most intrigued by the Ruger-produced Marlins that should be showing up soon in realistic (lower 48) calibers...
All that anachronistic stuff, .38 special, .30-30, etc, still has its place, and one shouldn't have to pay GunBroker prices for it.
M&P10
Absolutely. I have a couple revolvers just to be able to make use of scrounged ammo in 357/38.
And nothing beats a revolver for a rapid learning curve, for making a non-shooter into, say, a back-door guard.
Any non-shooter can be up to speed on a revolver sufficient to guard a locked door in 5 minutes. Just dry-firing empty, and practicing a few reloads.
***Never ever buy an AR-15 in .223. It will jamb with 5.56 ammo.***
Never had a problem with the two different designations for a .223. Never a jam.
My Colt rifle has 5.56MM stamped on the rifle, the box it came in has .223 on it. Same serial number on both the rifle and box.
And I have only been shooting M-16s since 1966, AR-15 since 1970.
Very popular in the south for an intermediate is .243 Win, which is necked down .308.
Great all-around caliber; flat-shooting, hard-hitting, and accurate. Basically the same ballistics as 6mm Crd, but it’s available anywhere ammo is sold in the south.
100 grains at over 3,000 fps is nothing to sneeze at, yet the recoil is mild enough for smaller women and boys.
Head to Head: .243 Winchester vs. 6mm Creedmoor
by PHILIP MASSARO posted on February 22, 2019
NEWS, GUNS & GEAR, AMMO, HEAD TO HEAD
https://www.americanhunter.org/content/head-to-head-243-winchester-vs-6mm-creedmoor/
***Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence.****
If you paid attention to the NEWS MEDIA back in 1968 we did.
Back then TV shows were so safe it was called “The national baby sitter.”
Movies were under the Hays Code and most were so safe for kids you could drop them off and not worry.
Then Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant and the news media went berserk!
They blamed 5 shot bolt action Army Surplus Rifles, “violent TV shows, pulp fiction, toy guns and movies which “glorified violence!”
So to keep Federal interference away the TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Pulp fiction changed their covers, toy guns disappeared from stores, Army surplus rifles were banned from import,
Movies shown on TV were butchered to remove scenes of “violence”.
But the movie industry got a pass when they said they would replace the Hays Code with a joke of a ratings system. “G,M,R,X” was the first.
So with the Hays Code gone, movie makers re-shot scenes adding more blood, gore, guts, and lots of sex to get the now coveted “R” and “X” rating.
It got worse through out the 1970s. At this time the mental institutions were closed down, porn was legalized so comic book publishers began to publish violent porn comics “for adults only” but the kids were reading them.
In the 1980s movies were deluged with serial killer movies hacking young teens. The camera giving us closeups of the most brutal murders, with lots of spurting blood.
Also in the 1980s cable TV made a big comeback and bypassed the FCC rules showing many of these uncut brutal movies all the time.
By the 1990s came the Internet and ultra-violent video games.
I recently saw about ten minutes of an ultra-violent movie for adults but aimed at kids. Dozens of the most violent deaths that would have never been allowed under the Hays Code. Again, in just 10 minutes!
Since those days we have released onto society a whole generation steeped in blood and gore with no moral guidance, who think shooting up a school or night club or church is no different than a video game. Fun!
As I said, fifty three years the TV and movies were blamed. Not a word about the ultra-violent TV and movies today from the news channels today. They only blame guns.
Ar-15...AR-10...
I cantz have boffa dem?
My neighbor here in rural MO says more deer have been taken here with a 22LR than anything else. Shots often taken out the window of a truck and yes, head shots.
30-30 cases scrounged from the range. A little Unique and a 170 ish gr lead bullet.
Shot through a can from a lever gun . It is quieter than any 22lr, even with a can.
It hits like a 357 magnum.
Funny article but the age limits are a joke. No bb gun till 6? Maybe but seems a bit late imho. You should be walking the fields with your old man by then with your bb gun. And you outta be able to shoot a tweety bird during that hunt. Belt out? Heck your old man outta be proud when you down your first tweety bird.
.22 at age 9? Heck by 9 you outta be shooting your first 20ga as you will be bird hunting with it by 10 latest.
My .02.
By the time the democrats get done passing laws the only thing the public can buy is a pressure cooker.
Boring out the 80% polymer lower with a jig and drill press is a story in and of itself. Sheesh. Took a LOOONG TIME. I could only go down about 1/4 inch at a time. What they make us go through. It is not so easy peasy as the youtube videos make it out to be.
Lots of fun in a Magnum Research BFR with 3 inch cylinder, 10.8 barrel. 31,000 PSI limit on loads. If you need to go higher, a Marlin lever action can go higher. A Ruger No.1 or T/C Encore will get you the top loads.
No expert here. Seems like shooting the pelvis would be more disabling than a trunk shot.
No American should own a (semi-auto) "AR15" ... because they should all be (full-auto) M16s. NFA is blatantly unconstitutional.
I like
7.62 × 54r .
Every day is a holiday. Every meal a banquet. Every night is New Years Eve. Every fight is a battle. The party never stops until we see the cops.The cops are too smart to invade our trailer park.
Who exactly is this mofo to be telling e or anyone lese what we can own or not own?! Holy sh*t, this country and world gone super stupid.
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