[JimRed]

Yes, and since we are looking at either Civil War 2 or Revolutionary War 2, we need them.

[BuffaloJack]

Is an AR15 a defense rifle?

[ClearCase_guy]

Whether this standard applies to artillery (reasonable persons may differ), it surely includes firearms.

The Constitution includes a proviso for Letters of Marque -- if a private citizen happens to have a war ship, loaded with cannon, and capable of engaging ships of the British fleet, the Constitution provides grounds for Congress to authorize use of such a private vessel in official servive to our country.

So ... yeah ... US citizens can arm themselves with just about anything, Bucko.

[Jim Robinson]

bump!

[Hardraade]

2A is ABOUT WEAPONS OF WAR.

It is for keeping weapons of war in the populace, and as written it guarantees ANY warmaking weapon as a correction to the government.

[driftdiver]

Why do cops have them?

[TurboZamboni]

[Gaffer]

Origin of Assault Rifle is German. Sturmgehwar, most notably the Sturmgehwar 44. Lightweight bullets, high capacity, auto-fire rate that was respectable.

AR-15 has a lot of similarities except it is semi-auto. So does the civilian equivalent of the AK-47....so what?

Weapon of war? Well, yes, we are in a war with our government right now - it just isn’t ‘declared’ formally.

[Jim Robinson]

All the fricken Democrats and RINOs who wish to bask in the “security” of communism should move to Russia or China or Cuba. Leave freedom for the true Americans who can handle it!!

[pfflier]

The AR-15 infamously used in the Sandy Hook massacre fires the same 5.56x45mm NATO ammunition as its cousin the M16. The “NATO” designation seems to validate Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and company’s fear that these are military weapons

There are bolt action rifles that shoot 30.06 Springfield (NATO 7.62mm). It is the same round that the M-1 Garand and M-14 uses. By using the above logic, the bolt action rifle is also a "military weapon".

[Logical me]

Assault weapons are the equalizer in a civil war where Government is a criminal communists organization that has totally destroyed our Constitution. There, is that better?

[Texas Fossil]

There are reasons the ComDems want to eliminate ARs and AKs.

They can be made in modest machine shops from a few castings and the parts are available in many places. Standard design.

These are a version of the weapons that the military train with. They are light, accurate, large enough to kill a man and are pretty reliable.

There are a lot of civilian style weapons that have a lot more knock down, range and accuracy. So this is about something other than being powerful.

I don’t own one, but would love to own an old M1. That heavy beast is a military weapon. Long range, accurate, reliable and powerful.

[Darksheare]

Considering the DHS is buying Ars and calling them defensive weapons, one wonders why the government says that and then turns around to go apestuffincrazy over civilians owning the same DEFENSIVE weapons?

[trisham]

The answers are far from simple

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Not so. The answer is quite simple; it becomes difficult only when intentionally misinterpreted, due to the mental contortions one must perform to distort the intended meaning.

[SandRat]

To a LibTurd anti 2d Amendment types the rifled long rifle used in the Revelutionary war was too, but it came originally with the farmers of the day.

[Secret Agent Man]

crimials and police don’t think so.

[Parmy]

If someone has the knowledge and time, maybe they could list most, if not all, of the calibers that have their origins in warfare and have been used as military calibers?

[Boogieman]

“The answers are far from simple, and lie in American constitutional and military history.”

Perhaps, but the answer is still irrelevant, as far as the 2nd amendment is concerned. Arms means weapons of war, so we have a right to bear them.

[mountainlion]

So what is an assault weapon anyway? WW2 they used Thompson machine guns and grease guns, and M1 Garands to charge the enemy positions. The idea was to keep the defenders heads down while they were making an assault. Later some used the M60 machine gun and full auto m14s and full auto M16s to assault a position. Now they have SAW machine guns. I think SAW stands for Squat Assault Weapon. It replaces the M60. Confusion is the weapon of the enemy of freedom. They confuse facts to lower the bar for the low information crowd.

[MasterGunner01]

On a happy thought, flamethrowers are completely unregulated and can be built by tinkerers. Nothing gives a government thug gun grabber pause better than the chance of becoming a crispy critter. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.