11-03-2018, 08:28 AM
(11-01-2018, 06:00 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Banning weapons of war like the AR-15 should be applied to anyone who wants to buy one. That we have not yet banned them, is due to Trump and the Republicans. They bear blame for this, as well as for the hate speech and stoking of fear and prejudice by Trump and his supporters.
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about. Strictly speaking the AR-15 is not a weapon of war since these days infantry small arms are select fire which can fire multiple rounds with one trigger pull. The current M-4 which is a lighter and shorter version of the [/URL]M-16 A4[/URL]. State of the art small arms for the military, even to this day, are patterned after the Sturmgewehr 44 and all of them have full auto or burst mode. They also tend to use ammunition that is on the low power side of rifle ammunition.
If a shooter was going for lethality then he would be better off with an M-1 which fits none of the criteria for 'Assault Rifles' but was a weapon of war in its day.
The main reason that people own the AR-15 is because it is a very modular system that is easy to customize and has a relatively low cost. You might want to consider this article on the subject.
This simple truth of the matter is that the so called "Assault Weapon" bans are a step on the road to a total ban on firearms. This is why gun owners fight such bans.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises