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

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