Posted on 03/10/2013 4:32:02 PM PDT by Daffynition
When his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle.
To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-powered bullets used by youths for decades.
The allure of the AR-15 — the main gun used by the shooter in Newtown — has nothing to do with the rifle's firepower, as far as Hardy is concerned. Rather, it's the gun's modular design, light weight, ease of use, low recoil and extraordinary flexibility that draws him in.
"It's the perfect rifle," said Hardy, a New Britain resident and certified firearms instructor who is active in the debate over gun control. "It can grow with him as he grows. ... As his needs change, it can change."
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
This is very, very unusual. I’m not too familiar w/ author Haar...I’ll be on the watch for his writings.
Every single day, Sandy Hook is in the paper, FP, in some form or another. It’s being driven home how evil guns are. The *committee* [posted on FR]is holding more hearings this week [w/out the police report]
We [CT] are under siege. Please pray for us.
Several maunfacturers make 22 LR versions. Smith & Wesson, Mossberg, and Sig Sauer to name three. Of course, 22 LR Iis not technically an AR-15.
You can get a cheap conversion kit to shoot .22LR ammo through your .223 barrel of the AR-15. Don’t expect the same accuracy, though.
But you can plink away with your Ar-15 all day long and not go broke.
Beforeitsnews is a bogus site, bordering on parody.
The bad report came from the fact that the media can’t tell the difference between an AR, AK and Shotgun. It started when a shotgun was pulled from the car and they called it an AR.
The police reported the AR was used.
The tape I saw showed the cops unloading and removing a shotgun from the trunk of the car.
We had several freepers who were even able to correctly identify the model of shotgun from that brief video before it was officially reported.
While the media was still calling the shotgun an AR.
There are available calibres .50, .465, .45, .40, 9mm, 6.8mm, 6.5mm, .308, .300 Winmag...Hell’s bells. Crosman makes an M4 .177. Take yer pick.
Cheers!
Add Colt to that list.
I personally own a Daisy AR 177.
The magazine holds at least 60 rounds.
I wonder if it is on Feinstein’s hit list.
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Using a lightweight mid-60s Mossberg .22lr wood-stocked carbine with an inexpensive scope you would be surprised what can be done at incredibly long, medium, or close distances by an experienced trained life-long shooter.
Not “black” - Not “scary looking”
Instinct, Ability, Practice, Instant reactions
I would pick it over my handguns or service firearms for getting rid of various annoying pests in the real world.
Unlike “Skeeter” I was not shooting blanks.....
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You can get those, I just bought a robinson arms xcr in .308 though:)
There is a rifle by S&W, the M&P 15-22, with all the bells and whistles on it that scare the libs (pistol grip, adjustable stock, barrel shroud, black color, mounting rails for a scope and forward grip, etc.) and fires 22LR ammo.
It is not classified with the similar-looking rifles which fire high velocity military ammo, though.
I have an AR-15, but its not my favorite go to rifle.
My most accurate rifle is Rem 700 .25-06. Shooting a bullet twice the weight of a 5.56 at the same velocity. It also shoots a group you can cover with a dime at 100 yds.
For faster work, I like the FAL.
The AR has its utility, but I own it mainly to piss off leftists.
There is a conversion kit for the AR’s to make it fire .22LR.
Simply remove the bolt carrier and slide in the new bolt carrier,and slide in the new magazine and presto...it now fires .22LR
https://www.cmmginc.com/category_s/1851.htm
Is the one I use.
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