Hunting rifle
Fully automatic assault weapon
Posted on 08/08/2012 6:48:01 AM PDT by marktwain
More than seven-in-ten respondents believe the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle should only be used by the police and other authorized persons.
Nine-in-ten Americans maintain their views on the Second Amendment, but a majority of gun owners and non-gun owners alike believe that the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle should only be used by the police and other authorized persons, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.
The online survey of a representative national sample of 1,010 American adults also found that support for the “shall-issue” prerogative to carry concealed weapons in public has increased over the past six months.
Second Amendment and Federal Guidelines
Across the United States, 90 per cent of respondents think that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution means that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms, while only five per cent disagree with this view.
There is an evident split when Americans are asked their opinion of current federal regulations related to firearm ownership, with 46 per cent of respondents claiming to be satisfied with these guidelines, and 43 per cent expressing dissatisfaction.
Gun owners (61%), Republicans (54%) and Independents (48%) are more likely be satisfied with the status quo on firearms regulations, while half of Democrats (50%) and Americans who do not own a gun (49%) are dissatisfied.
Half of Americans (49%) believe firearms laws in the United States should be stricter, including 71 per cent of Democrats, 60 per cent of respondents who do not own a gun, and 46 per cent of Independents. Both gun owners and Republicans would rather keep existing regulations, or enact looser ones.
Types of Weapons and Concealed Carry
For this survey, respondents were shown three pictures of firearms and asked whether they should be available to every American who is eligible to own firearms, or only to the police and other authorized persons. These weapons were reportedly used in last month’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
A majority of respondents believe the .40-calibre Glock handgun (63%) and the Remington 870 shotgun (58%) should remain accessible to every American who is eligible to own firearms. However, 73 per cent of Americans—including sizeable majorities of Republicans (66%) and gun owners (61%)—believe the AR-15 rifle should only be used by the police and other authorized persons.
On the question of concealed carry—where states have enacted different regulations—practically three-in-five respondents (58%, +7 since January) favor the “shall-issue” notion of allowing citizens to carry a concealed weapon if they meet specific criteria laid out in the law. Gun owners (66%) and people who do not own a gun (52%) agree on this issue.
considering the original intent of the Second Amendment thus guaranteeing the citizens the ability to combat a tyrannical government and to provide a means of protecting self, family and property, do you;
had the recent events involving firearms otherwise been associated with government killing its citizens like it did in Waco TX and Ruby Ridge ID, I believe any such survey would not provide the anti-gun answers the government is clearly seeking.
Where’s the link?
“The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.” — Josh Sugarmann
Hunting rifle
Fully automatic assault weapon
I own 4 AR pattern rifles. The newest addition is currently under construction.
If they ban them, then I become a felon. Plain and simple: I will not comply.
Put any description on a gun that uses both numbers AND letters, and the great unwashed thinks you are talking about some 50 caliber full-auto weapon used by Sly Stallone in Predator.
Nor have I.
Show them a picture of a Ruger Mini-14. It’s a semi-auto magazine fed .223 rifle just like the AR-15. But it doesn’t look “scary” like an AR-15 apparently does to many people.
I have asked the moderator to add the link.
“Fully or semi auto is irrelevant. All weapons available to the military should be legal for the populace to own.”
Exactly! OOHHHH that gun looks mean!....So does FLOTUS & POTUS! Personally when ever I fired a selectable firearm, the selector switch was in the single rate of fire position, the only exception was the M-14 and the requirement to qualify using the multi-rate fire position. AR-15’s have no selector switch for multi-rate fire and has 2 positions safe and fire (1 shot for each trigger pull).
Many years ago the news cried gun control because a co-worker killed five people in a Saginaw MI drug store.
He used a claw hammer!
The bottom picture is sooooo sexy (love to handle & test fire). Sometimes I go to gun shops just to admire the “evil tactical” guns, sometimes I ask to handle different models to check their balance.
The mini 14 becomes an assault weapon when ammo runs dry and it is used as a club.
I think the mini-14 ranch rifle is my favorite rifle just because it starts as an “innocent hunting rifle” and with a few bucks can easily be turned into an “evil black rifle”.
More than seven in ten Americans are morons; so what?
Put a hand oiled walnut stock on the “AR-15” and these benighted survey respondents would whistle a very different tune - and that is, quite plainly, because they’re idiots and have no idea what the h*ll they’re talking about.
Totally agree with you....My favorite rifle is the M-14.
They polled clueless people who think the AR-15s you can buy in a gun store are full auto. Ask the average person on the street about the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, or the Hughes Amendment, and you will get nothing but blank stares.
The anti's aren't going to give up this time. They are going for the gold: registration, then confiscation. And I'll be damned if I go along like a sheep. And I am not alone. There is going to be a civil war.
Damn straight. Either like Henry Bowman (of "Unintended Consequences") or Phil Gordon (of "Absolved"), I will not comply. Molon labe, bastards.
It is too late. They have to find them first - and then take them.
I’m assuming you mean “pointy-end first.”
Of course! That darned black assault weapon has a bayonet mount AND a flash suppressor!
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