(March 10, 2018 at 12:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(March 10, 2018 at 10:41 am)Khemikal Wrote: Ridiculous. An m4 is a battlefield weapon. A 249 is a battlefield weapon. A 240b is a battlefield weapon. An AR-15 is a sporting rifle designed to evoke gi-joe feelings in people who look at it..which obviously works on the gun nuts -and- you. It's a brilliant gimmick on merchandising..and, commercially, the purpose of an ar-15 is to sell accessories.
All guns are dangerous. There's no need to call any particular gun what it isn't to establish that fact. An AR-15 is dangerous regardless of the fact that it's not "a battlefield weapon", an even more vacuous term than "assault-style" rifles. It is on that ground..not on the grounds of some firearm making your joe-balls tingly, that regulations are warranted.
No, the real AR-15 was designed specifically to be automatic rifle for military purposes in the late 1950 and was meant to be distinguished from prior military rifles by being both lighter than existing full powered military rifles and capable of being controlled by the typical infantryman while firing on full automatic from the shoulder.
The inventor himself never intended it for civilian use.
I don't care, handgun or riffle, anyone who takes firearm responsibility seriously will always tell you to treat it as loaded and dangerous every time you handle one. No matter the type we have a climate in America that does not take that responsibility seriously enough. When you have a girl shoot her instructor with an Uzi at a shooting range called "Bullets and Burgers" , that says to me as a collective society we are NOT taking firearm safety seriously.
