robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

They didn't have national media, radio, TV, movies, internet etc either. So the first amendment should only apply to face to face talking, written letters or local newspapers printed on hand operated presses? Right, uh, no I guess not.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Here in CA one of the keys to an "assault weapon" is a bayonet lug - lots of drive by bayonet attacks and bayonet charges by the gangs. Uh, no, guess not.

controversy Loc: Wuhan, China

You nailed it - they are both exactly the same gun mechanism and function exactly the same way but with different "clothes" on. Putting leaves in your hair doesn't make you a tree any more than changing the stock on grandpa's deer rifle makes it an assault weapon.

It is really interesting to witness folks judging a gun on the basis of how it looks and not how it functions. If skin color was the difference it'd be called prejudicial racism.

This line has been attributed to Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Carolinamax

The danger of either would depend on the person holding it: experience, intentions. Your local firing range and the NRA would be a great start if you really wanted to learn more.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Give someone a real assault rifle, M-16, AK I don't care. Standard infantry model not some tricked out marksman version.
Give me a good target rifle in 30-06, 308 or similar and a half way decent "snipers" position.
Start us 600 yards/meters apart with instructions for him to take me out and all else being equal the guy with the assault rifle will be lucky to get within 300 meters/yards of me and I won't even need to move from my position. If things go real well for me I will only expend one round of ammo.

Of course I am speaking of the 21 year old version of me that shipped out to Vietnam in 1966.
But even today I might be able to pull it off if I go to the range a few times before the face off.

rick_n_wv Loc: Charleston WV

When seconds matter the police are only minutes away.
If they can bring in tons of drugs at a time, what makes people think they can't bring in tons of guns.

rick_n_wv Loc: Charleston WV

Ever hear of the Hickory Egg Shoot?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Just looked it up. Basically target rifles in the hands of some extremely good shots. I mean, a varmint rifle is a target rifle for use in the field instead of a range. Yes I know it has been won with .223s. But not a standard issue assault rifle.

I don't know if they are still around but a long time ago I read of a group called The 1000 Yard Club (?), they shot bench rest rifles. But the article I read said some of the members decided to do their deer hunting with their bench rest guns. Sit up a shooting table on one mountain and only take a deer at 1000 yards or so on another mountain. Then the hard part started, getting to the deer to recover it and not waste the animal's meat.

In Afghanistan the problem that the 5.56 could hit enemy troops at long range but lacked penetration to get through heavy winter clothing or have enough energy left to be fatal all the time led to the modernizing of the M-14 stock and accessories and issued as a "marksman" weapon. I have read some bad mouth it because it isn't a full on sniper rifle but it wasn't meant to be. Not even in designated marksman rifle version. Sniper rifles are for snipers but there are not enough of those for every platoon to have one. Give a tricked out target model M-14 to the two or three best shots in your platoon and they can reach out when the M-16s or esp M-4s can't reliably score or kill enemy troops and you have a very useful thing. Yes those same guys might do even better with a full on sniper rifle but those don't grow on trees and can't go full auto from a bi-pod when needed. I had an M-14 with bi-pod (I "found") and selector. I never got to use it in combat (I was a HQ REMF after all) but in the one range visit while in Nam I could control it in full auto, esp if I did 3-4 shot bursts from prone or a foxhole by using one arm through the sling and leaning my weight into it to hold it down and steady on the bi-pod. I had a lot of field soldiers try to buy or trade for my M-14. Esp guys whose units fought in the highlands and often had to shoot hill/mountain to hill/mountain. One LRRP guy offered me $500 (a lot in the 60s army) and a Swedish Carl Gustav SMG and a pile of mags and 9 mm ammo. He said I could just report it a combat loss. I pointed out I was on guard in a bunker on the perimeter of a large camp and that was as close to regular combat as I would probably get - even during an attack on the compound. Unlikely they would believe me and I was allergic to the stockade and didn't want to go home early to Leavenworth as a guest. He gave up, but his parent unit put in for some M-14s and got approved. Since my unit's armory had lots of extras we supplied them to fill the request. During Tet when a lot of units needed reinforcements/replacements in a hurry and many of the incoming newbies didn't have a weapon we equipped a few hundred of them with M-14s also. We never heard any complaints.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

If they are loaded and pointed at a person, they are equally dangerous to that person.

Huey Driver Loc: Texas

Neither is dangerous. Only someone pulling the trigger might be. Look for your self. Both laying there not hurting anyone. Get it through your heads antigunners, guns aren't the problem.

mrfisher77 Loc: Mayfield Heights, Ohio

Haven't posted in a while...I'll bite.

Neither of them need banned. The pink one *can* more dangerous.

Toys should not look like guns and guns should not look like toys. We don't need to paint or color a weapon for marketing purposes (exception for turkey hunting and a camo print weapon). A gun is a weapon and tool that should be respected. When we make them look cartoonish, we lose the respect for what it is capable of.

Having said that, all basic gun rules apply as well as local laws. Get training, join the NRA.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

Why?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

Why?