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I’ll keep my Saiga TYVM.
To defend yourself from Democrats. They’ll pry my AR-15 from my cold, dead hands.
Reason #11 should be: The AR-15 is just fun to shoot and mine cries out for more accessories!!
#11. The goverment today had Micahel Cohen plead guilty to something that is not a crime.
And the 11th reason. You will drive the libs crazy.
It is an interesting article.Since we live in the country I need more long range performance.So it’s a 7.62 for me.I do have a couple of AR15’s and an M16A1 for the wife.
Joe Biden says.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOqZOyeVSQ
I would add another reason:
11. It is extremely easy on the shoulder, thus a joy to shoot, often.
The author totally missed the most important reasons.
A complete miss.
Your friends, family and neighbors have AR-15s and you can pool ammo and magazines. You can even scavenge them from government stores.
In the US it’s the universal rifle.
I prefer the mini-14 in every category...except the one above. And it’s the most important of all.
I think the premise is specious.
No one should own “An AR15”
Everyone should own at _LEAST_ two with parts to assemble a third. This should be a minimum.
Two is one, one is none.
Why I don’t like the AR-15.
1) Too flimsy and easy to break. It had to have been a design consideration, so that lost weapons would quickly degrade and become useless to an enemy.
2) Its optimal use is outside, at mid range. Other rifles are better at long ranges; shotguns are better at mid to shorter ranges, pistols at short range; and a pistol-knife combo indoors.
3) It is a bugger to clean properly. I remember long hours with toxic solvents and even dental picks to get out much of the hidden carbon. Comparatively, the AK-47 has only three field cleaned or serviced parts.
4) It evokes a visceral response in fools who see you just carrying it. And tragically some of these fools are cops. While they will notice far deadlier weapons, they are less likely to freak out and shoot at you because of them.
Boulder AR gun ban: Gun Registry??
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/09/boulder-n2537128
The author states that the AR-15 was derived from the M-16. My recollection is that the AR-15 was developed as a semi-automatic sporting rifle before being adopted by the USAF and converted to full automatic capability and subsequently forced upon the other services by Robert McNamara in his push for standardization in all services.
I remember when you could not give an AR-15 away back in the 1970s. Critics vented their spleen on it as being ..”inaccurate, too small for deer, and (gasp) PLASTIC!”
Then came Mel Tappan with his book Survival Guns and his articles in GUNS AND AMMO on Survival. Suddenly anything AR was IN!
Politicians, at that time, had no problems with rifles. they were after the handguns. As actress Lee Grant yelled on Good Morning America, back in 1981, “THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
When they noticed no one was guarding the rifle ownership, they made a grab for the rifles.
#1 rule for owning a rapid firing semi-auto of any type (AR-15, AR-180, AK-47-s, Mini-14...The Politicians do not want you to have one.
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We’re not allowed to have those in my state. But we can smoke dope and gamble....
11. Liberals don’t want you to have one.
12. The light weight and recoil means even a small woman or young tween can handle it.
11. If you want to get good at cleaning a firearm, an AR-15 is an excellent platform to learn on. If Mr. Stoner missed an opportunity to create a carbon-holding nook or cranny, particularly in the bolt carrier group, I don't know where it would be. Own an AR-15 and you will get very good at cleaning firearms.
12. Because it drives liberals crazy. Leftist/fascist so-called "liberals" are so un-American and anti-American, anything they don't like and want to ban has got to be a good thing.
13. They're just plain fun to shoot. They are low to very low recoil. While they're not the simplest firearm to operate, there is a certain satisfaction to learning how to run one well.
14. The article lists modularity. That doesn't even begin to describe the situation. If you want to express your individuality, don't get a piercing - like everyone else. Don't get a tattoo - like everyone else. With an AR you can very quickly delve into the realm of so many combinations and permutations of options and accessories that you can make your AR one of a kind. Admittedly I haven't followed my own advice here. Mine only has a red dot sight and a sling as additions - practically factory stock by AR standards.
I think this depends greatly on how one defines "tactics".
Just the practice with my firearms that I get by going to the range increases my preparedness immensely. There are some fundamentals that support owning and using firearms that greatly advance once preparation to use firearms in a life-threatening situation.
Let me describe what happened to a guy I know. He owns both a Mini-14 and a Mini-30, both with wood stocks. He drove 60 miles to a range one time only to find that the .223 ammo he had didn't match the Mini-30 that he inadvertently brought with him.
The word "tactics" might not seem to apply to something as fundamental as having the right ammunition for one's rifle. However, there are plenty of ways that lack of sufficient training and practice can result in a failure to perform.
I'm sure that I will never again ... er, I mean, I'm sure that he will never again fail to properly identify which firearm he is taking and match it to the right ammo. He will also never forget just how embarrassingly long it took him to figure out what went wrong.
Erronious before he gets out of the second sentence:
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.
Not so. The M16 was derived from Eugene Stoner's work for the Armalite Division of Fairchild Aircraft, which resulted in a lightweight service rifle utilizing aerospace industry materials and manufacturing techniques. Though Army Ordnance was particularly uninterested the US Air Force considered the new design to be a possible replacement for their worn-out WWII M1 and M2 carbines, the most produced US small arm of that conflict. The original Armalite designation for the weapon was AR 15; previous designs, some in use by the USAF, including the AR-5, AR-7, AR-10 and finally, AR15. Only after finally standardized and produced to Army specifications around 1965 as the M16 was it so designated.
USAF AR-5 [USAF designation MA-1] survival rifle, circa 1958
President John F. Kennedy and USAF officer with early AR-15 rifle and crossbow.