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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
The AR-15 was no different to a hunting rifle aside from the magazine capacity and some of the accessories that can be bought. The AR-15 I shot had a red dot sight and a few other accessories that were over the line in my mind. I also shot a Glock which scared me. Now, some of the rifles/firearms I saw in use at the gun range were unsettling to me. I actually felt quite unsafe. Fwiw, I am not a gun proponent by any means. I am not arguing in favour of guns. I think a major issue is the size of the magazines and ability to rapid fire even though a gun is semi automatic.
Christ, cnn just stated that open carry in Texas only became legal in January. Talk about going in the wrong direction!
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well, the AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16... one of the performance criteria for the new weapon for the military was to penetrate body armor (legend has it, it was to pierce though a us army helmet at 500 yards)...
regardless, i am not sure why any civilian needs that kind of fire power? the extended clips makes it worse if you can fire as fast as you can squeeze the trigger...
anyways, the US system is pretty much broken and highly partisan to the point of toxicity... they couldn't even pass a damn bill to prevent people on the terrorism watch list from being able to buy guns post Orlando... if that isn't F'd up, i don't know what is...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2685810
(that's the NYC verson of the Calgary Sun btw, so not some liberal newspaper)