Hmm neat looking and seems to be CA legal.
Sport-Utility Rifle
It's an interestingly appropriate term!
Here is the earliest usage (usenet) I found:
From: GP40X (
gp40x@aol.com)
Subject: Re: @Urban Survival Rifle
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Newsgroups: misc.survivalism
Date: 1998/08/20
While playing with his "poddle shooter" glen wrote:
>If you do your practicing from a bench rest shooting 1 hole
>groups, you are doing it wrong. When TSHTF you won't be at a
>bench rest and you won't be shooting 1 hole groups.
I tried a little experiment with my "Sport Utility Rifle" at the range about
two weeks ago. Shooting from a standing position with a "Hasty sling" to hold
the rifle a little tighter, I dumped 60 rounds at a man sized silhouette target
at 65 yards {indoor range} & 53 of the rounds hit in the black. It looked more
like a shotgun pattern than a rifle group but there were a lot of hole in that
target {frest target no holes covered by markers}. ...
Bill Belsher
NRA
TSRA
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22sport+utility+rifle%22&start=40&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=1998082004415600.AAA29348%40ladder03.news.aol.com&rnum=45Neat concept, but I think I'd drop another Benjamin and get the Bushmaster.