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In reply to the discussion: AR-15 inventor's family: "Meant to be a military weapon." "He'd have been horrified and sickened." [View all]wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)27. The point is no matter what you call them they
are used in mass killings.
I understand the desire to make it hard to write a law banning them.
I carried a M16A1 in Vietnam. They were just being used a few months before I left. I had a M14 before. A M-14 could also be used in a mass killing. But it seems no one has one.
So there needs to be a term or description to use in the law. My idea is to make the law open ended so that it can be made to cover any new attempt to get around it.
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AR-15 inventor's family: "Meant to be a military weapon." "He'd have been horrified and sickened." [View all]
sharedvalues
Sep 2019
OP
The AR-15 Stoner invented became the M16. It was an automatic weapon (i.e. a "machne gun").
PoliticAverse
Sep 2019
#1
And it doesn't differ significantly from the current M4 issued to military personnel.
flamin lib
Sep 2019
#4
"Eugene Stoner, an ex-marine and the rifle's inventor, never used his AR-15 for sport"
IronLionZion
Sep 2019
#3
Don't expect a link to a source- that sort are fond of promulgating "faith-promoting rumors"
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2019
#11
Seems more a case of stuffing words in a dead man's mouth so to speak. The AR-15 has been
Marengo
Sep 2019
#12
I'm willing to listen to his family members- *after* they give away their share of his estate...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2019
#16
Except they are (like other stupid mass murder weapons like them) are the preferred gun of
jpak
Sep 2019
#40
The OP is virtue-signalling bullshit- his family as of yet hasn't renounced his money...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2019
#49