What this is really working up to is that ALL the leftists will have to admit they do want to take ALL our guns.
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If we turned this thread into a debate over AR vs. shotgun as better at distances of 75 feet and less, I suspect there would be as many shotgun advocates as AR advocates, except shotguns with OO buck are a lot less sexy than ARs. That totally supports your point because the left is trying to demonize ARs simply because they are black and based on a military design, not because they are any more lethal in moderate range environments. Hence, the whole idea is to familiarize people with the “legitimacy” of trying to outlaw one kind of gun to make it easier to outlaw all guns.
Here’s a little hint, every firearm is based on a military design.
Since the Chinese invented gunpowder people have been designing weapons to use that gunpowder, to kill the people they perceived as their enemies.
Same goes for knives, axes, slingshots, clubs, etc.
Some toys are just easier to make than others.