Posted on 12/30/2023 5:38:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Seventh Circuit has recently ruled AR-15 pattern rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment. The lawless ruling ignores the Heller and Bruen decisions.
Leading the list of long guns sold, the ubiquitous AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in America. Circa 2023, Americans own more than 23 million. The AR-15 is also the rifle type democrats/Socialists/Communists are most desperate to ban, that and so-called “high capacity magazines,” which have been standard capacity magazines since the Vietnam War.
Image: Colt AR-15 carbine, author
Considering d/S/C support for criminals and their overt efforts to abolish or cripple the police, it’s easy to understand why Americans continue to buy arms and ammunition in record quantities: they tend to do the opposite of what government wants–-they’re American that way–-and they’re not stupid. To set the record straight a brief AR-15 primer:
*“AR” does not stand for “assault rifle,” and certainly not for “assault weapon,” a linguistic invention best understood as any gun anti-liberty/gun cracktivists want to ban. Eugene Stoner, the AR’s inventor, worked at Armalite, thus, “Armalite Rifle.”
*Virtually all AR-pattern rifles are semiautomatics, unlike the military M4. It’s theoretically possible to own a machinegun in AR form, but as I recently explained, is all but impossible.
*ARs do not fire a “high-powered” cartridge. The .223/5.56 NATO cartridge is intermediate power, useful in hunting animals the size of coyotes. The main military advantage is the cartridge is small and weighs much less than true high-powered rounds. Many more may be carried for the same weight and space. The cartridge is not uniquely dangerous or deadly, and our warfighters have long complained about its relative ineffectiveness. Modern combat occurs at far closer ranges than past combat....
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Why should they do such a foolish thing? An honest SCOTUS would recognize that the NFA34 and the GCA68 are violations of the Constitutions, overturn them, and publicly recognize that "weapons of war" are those weapons MOST protected by the Constitution.
Quit letting the communists define the verbal battlefield.
That’s one of the biggest hurdles.
amen...
You left off my personal favorite, the underbarrel chupacabra launcher. Ammo’s a little hard to come by, though.
AR most certainly does stand for Automatic Rifle. Biggest Internet Legend. The military doesn’t use commercial names for things. The first military model was the AR-15, then it evolved to M-16 . Just as the CAR-15 was for carbine, not Colt.
Some of ArmaLite’s “AR” firearms family are shotguns and bolt-action rifles.
Technically, it's a 5-inch 38 caliber naval rifle. No scary magazines. No bayonet mount. Does great on deer. They come in grey.
That’s a new one on me.
Yep, I expect the M14/M1A to try to be banned and then the Garand next.
The Spec Op’s guys wanted a round with more punch than the 5.56mm, hence 6.8mm Remington SPC, special purpose cartridge. Out of a Barrett REC7 it makes for a nice platform. Still prefer the 7.62 round though.
I was issued a Garand M1 in Basic back in the fifties. After I cleaned the Cosmoline, I looked through the barrel. All the riffling had been shot out. It also had the trick of the sight dropping down a click or two after each shot so I saw puffs of duct walking down the berm. Sort of turned me off Garands. My psywar unit in Korea were issue carbines. Some years ago the American Rifleman had them advertised very cheap, but I passed them by. Did pick up a couple of Swiss K31s because of their accuracy.
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AKs, ARs, SKSs, M1 Garands, Mini-14s, and AR-50s all behave well together whenever they are left alone or outside playing...
Parachute Retarded?
Now you hold on just a doggone minute! (rolls up sleeves emoji)
Former airborne here... ;0)
The Term “Mil-Spec” AR-15 refers to an AR that has parts (with the exceptions that I will list) that are manufactured to US Govt specifications with regard to metallurgy, dimensions, and tolerances for those M-16 variants that are acceptable for US government acceptance. For instance, the “Mil-Spec” upper receiver of a Military M-4/M4A1 carbine is identical to that of a “Mil-Spec” AR-15 receiver save for barrel length, so as to comply with the unconstitutional NFA of 1934. Even so, a few minutes with an armorer’s wrench would allow the military 14.5” carbine barrel to substitute for the 16” civilian one. Every other single part of the upper receiver, to include the bolt carrier group, front sight/gas block, gas tube, ejection port cover, handguards, and forward assist will all readily exchange.
The lower receiver has the exact same external dimensions, and either lower receiver will interchange and function (in semi-auto that is) with either platform by pushing out the two retaining pins. The only significant difference is a hole drilled for the auto sear pin, and a shelf machined into the lower receiver to inhibit the substitution of the NFA legal “civilian” fire control parts with the selective fire parts of the “military” rifle, which are the 5 following parts, the hammer, the disconnector/sear, the auto sear, the selector/safety lever, and the trigger.
When I was an infantry squad leader in Nam, I was constantly admonishing my squad mates to make discriminating use of the full auto position, because the M-16A1 rifle was really a semi-auto rifle capable of full auto to be used that way in a few circumstances like breaking contact in ambushes, the final stages of an assault, final protective line fire, and to gain initial fire superiority. Using it as a squad automatic weapon would invite overheating, and premature wear and breakage, as it was not designed for the purpose of sustained automatic fire. So the “Mil-Spec” civilian version of the M-16 platform is, for all practical purposes identical to the military version in the role for which it was principally intended to fulfill, along with near total parts interchangeability.
A militia has been defined by SCOTUS as a “body of citizens intended for military purposes.” If that is true, then the selective fire version of the M-16 family is PRECISELY the weapon suitable for that type of organization. We need to repeal the unconstitutional NFA, and restore the militia to the prominence of place that it once had prior to the adoption of the National Guard in 1903 with the passage of the Dicke Act.
The 2nd amendment was not intended to allow you to punch holes in paper targets and to shoot bunny rabbits. (even though it serves incidentally to allow for that too, along with any other lawful purpose) It serves to provide an additional bulwark that is “necessary to the security of a free state.”
The Kansas Constitution is even more explicit than that:
§ 4. Individual right to bear arms; armies.
A person has the right to keep and bear arms for
the defense of self, family, home and state, for
lawful hunting and recreational use, and for any
other lawful purpose; but standing armies, in time
of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be
tolerated, and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.
I can live quite well with that definition of my rights. Regards.
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The Kansas amendment improves on the version in the Federal constitution. Perhaps THAT should serve as the basis for a new amendment to the constitution!!!
I think that would be a good start.
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