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I should have said "modern" military rifles.

Military rifles are selective fire. They can be fired both semi-automatic, and fully automatic.

The civilian "look-alikes" are semi-automatic only. You pull the trigger, and they fire one round, and one round only.

They are not "military" rifles.

Besides most of you hunting types like to "sporterize" (i.e. butcher) the rifles you mentioned by mangeling the stock and ruining the barrel with telescopic sites and putting rubber buttplates on them to protect your tender shoulders.

No one I know does that.

And even if someone does... so what?

"Military rifles are selective fire. They can be fired both semi-automatic, and fully automatic."

We both know that. We also both know how easy it is to convert them to fully automatic - not that I give a horse's ass about that.

"They are not "military" rifles. "

If you know how to handle a semi-automatic M 1 Garand, it should be pretty easy to figure out how to operate an M14. I guess an M16 isn't that much different. And THAT is the real reason for the Second Amendment.

"No one I know does that. "

You are hanging out with the "right" people. But visit a gun show or some of the larger gun stores and see all those fine WW1 rifles butchered by "sportization".

"And even if someone does... so what?"

I think a piece of history should be preserved, not destroyed. If they want a light bolt action for hunting they should go out and buy one - not wreck something that might have been at the Argonne Forest or Chateau-Thierry.