AR-15's are not assault weapons

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

If they were, wouldn't that make them an M-16?

Not necessarily. The M-16, M-16A1, M-16A2 have features and configurations unique to their noun nomenclature.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Not this lame, ignorant nonsense again.

An assault weapon is whatever a legislative body determines it to be – not the military, not the gun manufacturers, and not message board nitwits.

So a legislative body can call this an assault rifle and that makes it an assault rifle?

 

[Failzero]

Flood America with 21+ Million Illegal Criminals & Chinese overseas Commandos and their Sapper Spy Handlers and Fundy Islamist Terrorists then disarm Law Abiding Americans ?

 

[Failzero]

Not necessarily. The M-16, M-16A1, M-16A2 have features and configurations unique to their noun nomenclature.

As do the XM177E1 and XM177E2 and M16A3 and M16A4 and the XM4 …

 

[toobfreak]

Not necessarily. The M-16, M-16A1, M-16A2 have features and configurations unique to their noun nomenclature.

But they are all built from the same basic platform and all shoot the same ammo.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

But they are all built from the same basic platform and all shoot the same ammo.


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The only thing they have in common are lower receivers. They have different sights, stocks, barrels, flash suppressors.

Personally, I don't care what they're called. If people want to call a semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle an "assault rifle", I don't care. Call them whatever, but they're still legal to own and banning them violates the Constitution.

 

[Captain Caveman]

An assault weapon is capable of automatic fire. AR-15's are not capable of auto fire. No semiauto rifle without a switch to allow auto fire is an assault weapon.

Definition of ASSAULT WEAPON

any of various automatic or semiautomatic firearms; especially : assault rifle… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[jbander]

An assault weapon is capable of automatic fire. AR-15's are not capable of auto fire. No semiauto rifle without a switch to allow auto fire is an assault weapon.

you little fuckers think you can make your definition of everything. You can't "in the United States, assault weapon is a controversial term applied to different kinds of firearms. There is no clear, consistent definition. It can include semi-automatic firearms with a detachable magazine, a pistol grip, and sometimes other features, such as a vertical forward grip, flash suppressor, or barrel shroud. Wikipedia

 

[jbander]

Factsheet: Assault Weapons​

NCJ Number

204871

Date Published
October 2003
Length

5 pages
Annotation

This paper presents various facts and information pertinent to the rationale and effectiveness of Federal and State laws that ban assault weapons.
Abstract

The paper defines an "assault weapon" as a "civilian, semiautomatic version of a military weapon." Generally, the characteristics of an assault weapon make firearms more lethal, more accurate, and/or less conspicuous when used. Federal and State laws also establish specific definitions of an "assault weapon" for the purposes of regulation. Data are provided on the ownership of assault weapons in the United States prior to the 1994 ban on such weapons, as well as the use of assault weapons in crime before the Federal ban. Information on law enforcement officers killed by assault weapons indicates that between January 1, 1994, and September 30, 1995, 33 law enforcement officers were killed with an assault weapon (n=16) or other weapon sold with large-capacity magazines (n=17) affected by the 1994 Federal assault weapons ban. Regarding assault weapon injuries, this report notes that although assault weapons currently account for a relatively small proportion of crime guns, these weapons are designed for highly lethal assaults. Information on public opinion shows that national surveys conducted in 2000 and 2002 indicate that between 67 percent and 71 percent of adults favor the current Federal ban on assault weapons, and 65 percent of registered voters favor renewal of the 1994 ban. This report also provides information on Federal and State laws that ban assault weapons, the effectiveness of assault weapons bans, and the manufacture and sale of "copycat" weapons. A 1999 study that evaluated the effects of the 1994 Federal assault weapons ban found a 20-percent decrease (from 4,077 in 1994 to 3,268 in 1995) in the criminal use (and police confiscation) of assault weapons in the first year of the ban. This decline was twice as large as the overall reduction in crime gun trace requests. 20 references

Factsheet: Assault Weapons | Office of Justice Programs

www.ojp.gov

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[jbander]

assault rifle​

noun​

Synonyms of assault rifle

: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire
also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire

 

[jbander]

The federal government and most states that ban assault weapons say AR-15 are assault weapons. Yady dody . MAGA magots define everything themselves so it means what they want it to mean. Don't listen to the most stupid among us for your source of information. You will always look stupid doing it.

 

[jbander]

These gun Bubbas are all the same wack jobs.

 

[M14 Shooter]

The federal government and most states that ban assault weapons say AR-15 are assault weapons.

9 states have legislation to that effect. The federal government does not.
Either way, it doesn't matter. as our right own and use them is protected by the 2nd.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The federal government and most states that ban assault weapons say AR-15 are assault weapons. Yady dody . MAGA magots define everything themselves so it means what they want it to mean. Don't listen to the most stupid among us for your source of information. You will always look stupid doing it.

You can buy an AR15 in the UK, just in Rim Fire I think. Never bothered with firearms so my knowledge is sketchy on those, just always owned, sold, and now hire shotguns for clays -