[FreeTally]

Cupp then got an AR-15 rifle from his car to kill the bull, the report said. The AR-15 is a civilian version of a military assault rifle that fires a relatively small bullet.

This just makes me laugh. Such a description is never used by the media when Joe Civilian has an AR-15. When in the hands of us pesants, its a "high-powered assault sniper rifle".

[Rebelbase]

With no beef in site, Sheriff Hege takes aim at a bass supper.

[archy]

This just makes me laugh. Such a description is never used by the media when Joe Civilian has an AR-15. When in the hands of us peasants, it's a "high-powered assault sniper rifle"

Not always. When our local sheriff's department reequipped with German-made [then; they've got a US factory now] SIG 226 9mm semiauto handguns and a pair of AR15 rifles, we helpfully slugged the story with *Deputies get foreign assault pistols and rifles with grenade launchers* as a headline. At the time, BATF had declared that the flashhider on the end of many military and lookalike rifles was a *grenade launcher* since a rifle grenade *could* be fitted to some, though I missed the sale on 'em at the local Wal-mart. And the then-current attempted *assault weapons ban* limititing future magazine capacity to 10 shots, and the attempt to define anything greater as an assault pistol came back to haunt our badgetoters as well: all three of our local gun shops refused to sell full-capacity magazines to the cops unless they had military ID, since such equipment was restricted for *civilians.*

[GnL]

Took the words right out of my mouth. All one has to do is go back and read the articles being spouted during the D.C. sniper incidents and you get an entirely different impression of the AR-15 and the .223.