Ransom said:
LongGone said:
Does that mean that a 19 year old needs to be able to buy an assault rifle?
An assault rifle, by definition, is capable of fully automatic fire. An AR-15 is semiautomatic. It functions no differently than any other semiautomatic sporting rifle. It looks military because it is a civilian variant of a military rifle. Thus "assault rifle" has been divorced by the Left from its actual meaning and become a buzzword that means only "spooky-looking black rifle."
No 19-year-old can purchase an assault rifle. Automatic weapons are already illegal for civilians to own, and have been for decades.
You tell me where I am wrong. The AR-15 is the civilian counterpart to the M-16. The difference between the two is the M-16 is automatic and the AR-15 is semiautomatic. This basically means that with the semi-automatic the user needs to pull the trigger for each shot. The AR-15 was designed for speedy reloading. A 9mm handgun bullet travels at 1,200 feet per second and delivers 400 foot pounds. The standard AR-15 bullet travels at 3,251 feet per second and delivers 1300 pounds. The reason that AR-15 are popular for mass shootings is the high fatality rates. An AR-15 is easier to shoot accurately and rapidly because it mitigates recoil. The AR-15 has large capacity ammunition magazines so the user can feed 30 or more bullets into the rifle without reloading.
So whether you call the AF-15 an assault rifle or not it does not change the question of whether a 19 year old who can not legally buy a beer should be able to buy a AF-15 that is capable of this destruction.
