[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

As an example, this is a Ruger Mini-14. It is semi automatic with a wood stock and you can even get them with 18.5" barrels, which is fairly short. You can mount any optics on them. The only difference is the AR-15 looks scary because it is black and has a more modern look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Mini-14

The AR-15 is the modern version of the musket, and Americans need them. The ignorant masses are drenched in hysteria over these things. Outside of the Aurora mass shooting they are rarely used to murder people, because they are not concealable like a handgun is.

So my point was that it's the short barrel, huge ammunition capacity, and to some extent the light weight collapsible stock (or pistol grip) that makes it an assault weapon, and thus different than a typical hunting rifle, and your response is to show me a rifle which has a short barrel, and a huge capacity, can be fitted with a collapasable stock, or pistol grip, (which if you did would classify it as an assault weapon under the previous ban), and has been used by multiple police/swat/militaries.

Maybe that one above isn't exactly an "Assault Weapon", but it's darn close, and with a little effort, it can be just as easy to use in that manner as an AR.


So yeah, great example there Mikey.