My view regarding guns in the USA as a foreigner.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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 an selective fire 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 like the M-14, and capable of being controlled by the typical infantryman while firing on full automatic from the shoulder which guns firing full rifle cartridges can’t do.    It was sort of ground breaking mainly in that it used a smaller caliber full length round rather than rifle caliber short round like the AK-47 or StG-44.

M-16 was the DOD name for the AR-15 when it was adopted in the 1960s. M-4 is just a shortened version of the M-16 and a close lineal descendant of the AR-15.

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They have before.

Sure, it can happened.   But I wouldn’t bet the chance of that happening would reassure the life insurance company.

I bet my life on being able to do it. Wanna know how that worked out?