4/12/2023 0 Comments Ar stands forSelecting a single ‘ideal rifle’ is not easy. So the need to select a ‘survival’ rifle is real. If something were to happen today, you would need to have made a decision about the rifle you would select and be prepared for such an event. (Adam Lanza’s mother, Nancy Lanza, has been described as “a gun-hoarding survivalist who was stockpiling weapons in preparation for an economic collapse.”) An article on titled “The Ideal Rifle” notes that “the threats from crime, terrorism, natural disaster, and weapons of mass destruction are real. Online shooting message boards are rife with references to potential “SHTF scenarios,” where SHTF stands for “shit hits the fan”-governmental collapse, societal breakdown. But the guns also appeal to another demographic that doesn’t get nearly as much press-paranoid survivalists who worry about having to fend off thieves and trespassers in the event of disaster. These are not hunters but wannabe weekend warriors.”Īs the NRA’s David Keene notes, a lot of people do use modern sporting rifles for target shooting and in marksmanship competitions. I see more men running around the bush all cammo’d up with assault vests and face paint with tricked out AR’s. A hunter does not need a semi-automatic rifle to hunt, if he does he sucks, and should go play video games. It is first and foremost designed as an assault weapon platform, no matter what the spin. (The official Bushmaster XM15 manual lists the maximum effective rate of fire at 45 rounds per minute.) As one hunter put it in the comments section of an article on, “I served in the military and the M16A2/M4 was the weapon I used for 20 years. Hunters themselves find the rifle controversial, with some arguing AR-15-style rifles empower sloppy, “spray and pray” hunters to waste ammunition. 223 caliber ammunition doesn’t offer much stopping power for anything other than small game. Though it can be used for hunting, the AR-15 isn’t really a hunting rifle. People like the rifle because it is modular and thus customizable (one article calls the AR-15 “perhaps the most flexible firearm ever developed in seconds, a carbine can be switched over to a long-range rifle by swapping upper receivers”), because it is easy to shoot, and because carrying it around makes you look like a badass.īut the AR-15 is not ideal for the hunting and home-defense uses that the NRA’s Keene cited today. Last month, I estimated that upward of 3.5 million AR-15-style rifles currently exist in the United States. Since then, the rifle and others like it have become tremendously popular. From 1994 to 2004, AR-15-style rifles were subject to the now-expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban. “AR-15” came to refer to the rifle’s semi-automatic civilian equivalent. When it entered Army service in the 1960s, it was renamed the M16, in accordance with the Army Nomenclature System. Army, which asked Armalite to come up with a “high-velocity, full and semi auto fire, 20 shot magazine, 6lbs loaded, able to penetrate both sides of a standard Army helmet at 500 meters rifle,” according to. The AR-15 was designed in 1957 at the behest of the U.S.
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