Posted on 06/01/2013 11:56:49 AM PDT by Redcloak
I do own a Tyranny Response Rifle.
MOLON LAVE
We have to be careful with our choice of words. "Assault weapon" is a deliberate distortion of the term assault rifle. It's meant to confuse those who aren't familiar with firearms.
What’s the difference? Both are bastardized PC terms.
Sorry couldn’t help it it’s just there awaiting.
Oh Nutz! The second amendment won’t let me shoot “sports” I’m really dissapointed.
I like the way you think . . .
My point is that neither of those terms describes an AR-15. It’s not an “assault weapon” since that term could be used to describe a pointed stick. It’s not an “assault rifle” as that term is generally accepted to mean a select fire rifle. And “Modern sporting rifle” is an acceptance of the idea that guns are nothing more than toys. No one would argue that toys are deserving of Constitutional protections! We need something better than those terms.
Thank you! :)
Which is why I reject them both.
Assault rifle was a military term for a shorter rifle, shooting a lower-powered shorter-range cartridge than traditional rifles, that is capable of fully-automatic or burst fire operation. This is in contrast to the battle rifle, which is a full-length rifle that fires a full-powered cartridge usually only in semi-auto mode.
The average person cannot buy an assault rifle today. AR-15s and semi-auto AK-47s (technically, a semi-auto version is an AKM) do not meet the military definition of an assault rifle. Instead, they are simply semi-automatic rifles, nothing more.
I’m one of those who kept flogging “semi-auto rifle” as an accurate term. I realize now that it’s too jargon-y. It assumes that Joe Sixpack understands what “semi-” “fully-”, and “automatic” mean. He doesn’t.
OK.
Since they fire a single shot for every trigger pull, I call them “single shot rifles”...
;>)
It’s compromising on their terms. Getting into the semantics of it is just what the Liberal doctor has ordered for a compromise with the Left. Any compromise with them is a win for them.
Call ‘em guns, or rifles, and let THEM float all the semantics they want. Don’t play with them as they will always play by their rules, which they usually make up as they go along to keep them in the winners seat. Think Chameleons.
The best thing to do with the Left is to ignore them, let them spew all the absolute nonsense they normally spew, and make damned certain none of them ever gets elected to leadership as we unfortunately have now.
The job # one is to clean out the Leftist garbage, the enemy within the current political party of Conservative traditional choice, and then to get the Leftist butts the ‘H’ out of positions of “power”, clean their “departments” out of the Executive, eliminate the bureaucracies that support them, and keep them out.
I like that! It gives one the opportunity to explain why that’s an accurate label; more so than “assault weapon”.
The unfortunate political reality in this country is that most of our neighbors want their information served up to them in soundbites and catch-phrases. “Assault weapon” was a brilliant piece of political marketing. It describes nothing and anything. (Sounds like Obama, now that I think of it!) It can be twisted to mean any gun the Left finds frightening. Whether we like it or not, we need to think like marketeers.
This is also a tyranny response rifle, and it's available for not very much at almost any pawn shop.
That runs the risk of playing into another anti-gun meme: That only the police have the necessary training to safely handle firearms. Of course, we know that isn't true.
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