Posted on 04/01/2023 9:16:08 AM PDT by rellimpank
The M16 or AR-15 rifle is one of the US's most divisive symbols To gun enthusiasts, it is an effective, lightweight weapon. To anti-gun advocates, it's a symbol of mass shootings. Experts estimate approximately 16 million adults in the US now own at least one of these rifles.
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We should be buying muskets??
The very first picture is all wrong.
Doesn’t the media even try to get the story correct anymore?
An M2 carbine doesn’t look anything like an M16. Not even close.
Idiots.
The same type of creeps who supported the Communist conquest of VietNam are the pinkos who want to disarm Americans today.
Kind of speaks for itself.
BI=BS.
Stopped reading at the first picture description.
Nobody needs a military-style rifle with a 20 or 30 round ammo capacity. That is, until they come to disarm you. Or send their ANTIFA or BLM minions to attack you.
Well, the thousand round magazine probably confused them.
“Or send their ANTIFA or BLM minions to attack you.”
I had an AR-15 in basic, it was really worn and had the old 3-prong flash suppressor that would grab plant life.
Saw a video of a cop having to shoot a dude swinging a knife at close range at the cop- Shot him 11 times, and the dude kept charging the cop- then walked off down the street- The government doesn’t get to tell us how many rounds we need when perps are repeatedly shot many times and do not fall right away- And let’s also consider than many house break-ins are done by groups of thugs/criminals-
Saw a home camera video of 3 thugs that broke in through front door- then you see the thug, armed- go into the bedroom, and shots ring out- and perp comes running out and out hte front door- all 3 were armed- and had the homeowner had to retrieve his gun from a locked cabinet, and had to unlock the trigger lock, then unlock a separate cabinet with ammo inside, like soem states demand gun owners store their guns— the perps woudl have 100% shot and killed him and his wife before he could have loaded his gun for self defense!
Thankfully the homeowner had his pistol near him, loaded, ready to defend himself and his wife-
“The M16 or AR-15 rifle is one of the US’s most divisive symbols To gun enthusiasts...”
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No it isn’t.
It’s April Fools Day every day, for some people.
Never seen a good AR vs. AK dust-up?
***Things began to change in 1989 after a mass shooting at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. A lone gunman shot 34 people, killing 5 children, before killing himself. In response, Colt stopped selling AR-15s for a whole year.***
SAY WHAT? I remember that very well. California had written up a very bad AW ban which would have also banned lever action rifles. So much opposition was brought against it the lever action ban was removed and the law shelved.
I said LOOK OUT There is going to be a mass shooting in California in a few weeks or months! And there was.
The State had released Pat Purdy from a mental institution (for the seventh time), allowed him to buy a handgun passing the waiting period and lying on the forms 4473. He also bought, not an AR-15 but an AK-47s.
He then shot up the school killing several students and himself.
The shelved AW ban bill was pulled out and passed so fast before opposition could be mounted against it.
To show how bad the AK-47 was, CBS had a watermelon set up and shot it with the AK. All it did was punch holes in it.
So they set up another melon, and shot it with a different weapon with special ammo to make the melon explode.
That night on the news you saw a man shoot an AK, then cut to the watermelon exploding. All to make it look like these weapons were super bad!
Well to be fair there was an m16 lying in the bed of the vehicle lolol but hardly fitting the caption “Reporter Betsy Halstead learns how to fire an M16 automatic rifle during the Vietnam War in 1965”.
According to CJ Chivers, when a discussion turns to AR-15s, it stops being rational.
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