Posted on 03/24/2021 12:06:50 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In a recent item for The Federalist, David Harsanyi considered the M16 rifle one of the five most innovative firearms in American firearm development history. Yet something equally significant can be said about the semi-automatic AR-15 derived from the M16. Second to the muskets used in our revolutionary and civil wars, the AR-15 may be the most important firearm in American political history.
All told, more Americans have fired more rounds from more AR-15s for personal defense, defensive firearm training, marksmanship competitions, individual practice, and hunting than from any other rifle. For that reason, the AR-15 is the primary firearm upon which Americans would rely if they had to fight for freedom today.
Here are 10 reasons to own at least one AR-15 and to become skilled in its use
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Buy an AR 15? I used to know people who owned AR-15’s - they game them away or lost them in the woods - the same people lost all of their AR-15 Ammo.
I don’t know anyone who still owns an Ar-15...
My SKS is fine. And it’s real wood so it doesn’t look so “scary”. :)
It was Eugene Stoner in the mid/late 50s, who invented the AR.
1947?
Were I not medically housebound, and have a car to the 90 minute ride to the closest range, I would buy a 5.56/.223 rifle.
My last rifle was my USAF green M-16 in SouthEast Asia.
unless you are of the age to be highly kinetic and a serious door kicker, even the budget ones will do you well.
Buy extra firing pin and bolt carrier, extra cotter pins (the Jesus pin) and a decent red dot optic. three mags minimum.
If you can get one that can fire both .223 and 5.56, all the better.
Sadly, prior to my Libtard state passing an AR-15 registration law, I traded mine for tools and bought an M1 Garand.
Beautiful rifle, made in 1942 and accurate as all hell, great cycling with nice "reach-out-a-touch" of the 30.-06 rounds.
And a bit of a "head-turner" at the range.
The number ten reason is naive at best. A Roberts commie court will jump at the chance to change the Constitution to suit the globalist who own Roberts.
The mini-14 is not the ar-556.
Its blackness makes it an assault rifle.
I have what I need already.
M1A is the Springfield Armory designation for their civilian version of the M14.
My AR-14.5 only shoots 5.44.
Agreed.
My own family members have killed grizzly bear and moose with 308s, where you hit them. One of the Indians down ft Yukon killed a sow polar bear with a 556 bout 15 years back.
Put a MS2 sling on them and everybody hunts off snowmachine; subsistence of course.
The Mini-14 is the same as an AR-14.
/sarc
And the stories I’ve heard is that nobody wanted one back then.
Bummer, that was the problem all along with the AR-14.5.
5.44 rounds were only produced in Rome Italy during the 1600s, so yeah, tough to get.
I had one, but sold it to street vendor with an overbite.
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