I just smell a rat. Nothing black with a 30 round magazine seems to be “essential”.
Adams is welcome to his opinion. I just don't share it. He's an academic type who as far as I can tell is no more qualified to list essential guns than anyone else - not sure if he realizes what might be coming courtesy of the Democrat wannabe socialist tyrants when they get in power again. I personally prefer the AK variations (which is also missing from his essential list) simply because they can take more abuse.