In regulating hazardous equipment, you have to balance considerations of utility with public safety.
Having a pistol grip and a flash suppressor on a rifle does not make it hazardous in any way whatsoever.
What can an AR15 do for self defense that you can't do with a small revolver?
a) Fire more accurately.
b) Reach out to a greater distance.
c) Have greater stopping power.
d) Penetrate Kevlar, and do so without any loss in stopping power.
e) Not run out of ammo in the middle of a gunfight.
The only thing these AR15s are doing is making life difficult for local law enforcement.
Nonsense. AR-15s don't cause any more problems for police than many other rifles.
Further, AR-15s do serve other purposes. Varmint hunting for example.
I’ve been very curious to see what they were lying about.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that the reason why police were provided AR-15s was because they were encountering them in the streets. They were provided AR-15s because they were encountering Kevlar in the streets.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that the AR-15 has a problem with penetrating walls and killing innocent bystanders. All guns do that, including the AR-15. But of all the possible guns, the AR-15 is about the least-bad when it comes to penetrating walls and killing innocent bystanders.
The CNN guy is lying when he implies that the AR-15 round is special for it's ability to penetrate Kevlar. All centerfire rifles penetrate Kevlar. The AR-15 is nothing special in this regard.
The CNN guy is lying when he implies that the AR-15 is special for it's long range. Most centerfire rifles have such range.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that large magazines are only for battlefields. They are also for varmint hunting and for self defense.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that the police are overmatched. In reality the police carry AR-15s too.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that gun ranges that can handle an AR-15 are rare. Any gun range that can handle an ordinary rifle, can handle an AR-15 (which is just an ordinary rifle).
The CNN guy is lying when he implies that ammo for the AR-15 is particularly expensive.
The CNN guy is lying when he says that people who own NFA weapons are subject to annual review.
Off hand I am not sure whether the CNN guy is lying when he says that 18-year-olds cannot buy NFA weapons. But I would not be surprised to learn that that is a lie as well.
That was just a quick review of the article. I am not saying that this is a comprehensive list of every lie in the article. But those are the lies that stood out to me when I skimmed it just now.
But today, if people really want to "warn their rulers from time to time", the kind of weapons they would need would be gunships and nuclear ordnances, not just muskets. That is why the 2A, the way it's written nowadays, is hopelessly obsolete for the purposes of its original intent.
But surely you knew that THAT was its primary purpose, not to shoo away burglars. Didn't you?
The primary intent was actually to prevent tyranny from arising in the first place. They thought that a standing army was necessary before tyranny could arise, and they thought that if the government always relied on a militia for enforcement, then it would never have cause to raise a standing army.
But even though self defense is not the primary purpose, so what? It is still
a purpose.
The AR15s create a whole added layer of complexity that makes their job far more tricky, and dangerous.
Nonsense. AR-15s don't cause any more problems for police than many other rifles.
Following several high-profile mass shootings and attacks on law enforcement involving military-style assault weapons, Congress enacted the federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. The ban expired on September 13, 2004 without any consideration or action by Congress, despite the pleas of law...
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No assault weapon that is or was legally-owned by American civilians has ever been used to commit a crime.
