Dat's RACIS'!!!!
Posted on 06/16/2015 5:00:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
"The most wanted gun in America" is what The New York Times dubbed the AR-15-style semiautomatic in February 2013. Even though assault weapons — guns originally designed for combat use and rapid fire — constitute only about 1% of all 300 million firearms in America, lately they've been flying off the shelves. Demand has outpaced production.
Weapons like the AR-15 represent the leading edge of the gun debate. Successfully enacted on a limited basis at the national level in 1994, the assault weapons ban lapsed in 2004. After the Sandy Hook school shooting, a new ban was introduced in Congress, and, although the effort failed, it raised an enduring question: What is their appeal to some gun owners?
The case against assault-weapon restrictions is familiar: Such guns are really no different from conventional rifles, they are useful for self-protection and hunting and bans infringe on Second Amendment rights. But these arguments don't amount to an explanation for the guns' popularity (in fact, the first point begs the question). If every last assault weapon disappeared tomorrow, thousands of other weapons still would be readily available for all of these purposes.
Here's the real story:
First, assault weapons acquisition has become a form of political expression. Many have noted increases in firearms sales keyed both to the election cycle, notably Barack Obama's elections in 2008 and 2012, and to mass shootings. The very purchase of guns, and especially assault weapons, is a statement that they should remain legal and unregulated, that guns themselves are not the problem. It's also a way to express opposition to Obama. Within the gun industry, this pattern is called "political sales."
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“Unbeknownst to this goober, military rifles have always been popular with the shooting public. M1, Springfield, yrapdoor all of them have been popular at one time or another.”
Not to mention the Craig 3040. My Dad used to talk about his all the time after I was born, and he decided to sell his hunting rifles until we were old enough to get gun safety.
AR-12s are available.
I tell people that ask about why I have weapons (especially my .223/.556) and why I ride a motorcycle, If you have to ask and I have to explain it you probably wouldn’t understand anyway.
The media in general also likes to use the term “black gun” I assume because it sounds so ominous.
Far be it from the lib media to exaggerate a story. /s/
Or maybe someone would like the option of being able to lay down some suppressive fire while protecting their house from superior numbers of starving thugs coming from the cities after the SHTF.
(Or maybe it's just fun not to have to reload after every shot at the range).
And there are plenty citizen owners of autoloading AR-style rifles with ACOG and EOTech glass.
The .45-70 was an immediate civilian succes after military adopted it as their battle round. There were lots of rifles made for the round.
Same with the .30-06 and the .556 and the.30-40.
It is just part of the market, a large part.
Dat's RACIS'!!!!
dat be passing for a “black gun”!
Her name is Rachel ...
That sure is pretty
Or accurately describe a firearm... such as to accurately describe an assault weapon... or an automatic... or a clip.... or a magazine... or a suppressor.
Makes pretty little groups, too.
Only for overgrown adolescents on youtube, TV and movies.
Spray & pray might be effective in the jungles of Nam with endless supply lines of ammunition. But for the AR15 it's choose your shot with a high velocity, flat trajectory round that is accurate a distance combined with a 30 round magazine.
And how come they always leave out the AK platform in their crying about "assault" rifles? Maybe not as many out there, but it is a nice carbine which is very good at just what it was designed for.
“Superficially, it would be hard to believe that Colt is in serious financial trouble when they make one of the best AR-15 rifles in the world.”
Colt doesn’t make a 22. They don’t make a 38 snub. They don’t make a 357 besides a single action army. They don’t make a modern 9mm, or any CCW pistol beyond a 380 they barely produce.
They make AR15s and 1911s that are no better than the competition and are priced so their basic costs the same as someone else’s custom.
Worst of all, they see themselves as a defense contractor, not as a consumer products company.
They should be in financial trouble.
The real question all these liberal rags is learning the answer to, is: "Why would anybody need any of these liberal rags, when the truth can be found elsewhere?"
“Why the Sale of Semi-Automatic Rifles are Booming.”
That depends entirely on your tactical disposition. If I were extremely elevated with a very broad field of fire I would go exclusively semi-auto. If I were part of a squad at ground level facing a relatively narrow field of fire then, yes, full auto spray and pray makes sense as suppressive fire depending on what you are facing and how much ammo is available.
.338 LM does not have have to be reloaded after every shot.
belt fed is the only way to go
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