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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: 2HOW on November 17, 2009, 09:31:51 AM
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Updating AR-15's Image
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is trying to rebuild the image of the AR-15 rifle and you can help. The NSSF has coined the term Modern Sporting Rifle to more accurately describe the AR-15 platform and is asking that shooters do the same. The NSSF asks you to be an informed gun owner and to use the following facts to correct misconceptions about these rifles.
If AR-15-style modern sporting rifles are banned, your favorite traditional-looking hunting or target shooting semi-automatic firearm could be banned, too.
´ AR-15-platform rifles are among the most popular firearms being sold. They are today's modern sporting rifle.
´ The AR in "AR-15" rifle stands for Armalite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. "AR" does NOT stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle."
´ AR-15-style rifles are NOT "assault weapons" or "assault rifles." An assault rifle is fully automatic -- a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.
´ AR-15-style rifles look like military rifles, such as the M-16, but function like other semi-automatic civilian sporting firearms, firing only one round with each pull of the trigger.
´ Versions of modern sporting rifles are legal to own in all 50 states, provided the purchaser passes the mandatory FBI background check required for all retail firearm purchasers.
´ Since the 19th century, civilian sporting rifles have evolved from their military predecessors. The modern sporting rifle simply follows that tradition.
´ AR-15-style rifles are no more powerful than other hunting rifles of the same caliber and in most cases are chambered in calibers less powerful than common big-game hunting cartridges like the 30-06 Springfield and .300 Win. Mag.
´ And, they are a lot of fun to shoot!
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"Modern Sporting Rifle"
I'm on board.
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I also like the "homeland defense rifle" name ;D
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Why save a drowning pig? ???
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I also like the "homeland defense rifle" name ;D
A GENIUS marketing idea! But it should be applied to something worthy of the name. :(
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I also like the "homeland defense rifle" name ;D
Too "Right Wing Extremist" to actually work.
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Get Martha Stewart to do the commercial! ;D
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http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=9813.0
I think it's BM. :P
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:-*
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I never say 'assault rifle' anymore, its always 'carbine'. Same thing with 'sub machine guns', 'pistol carbine'. 'Battle rifles' are just 'rifles' to the non gun community.
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I never say 'assault rifle' anymore, its always 'carbine'. Same thing with 'sub machine guns', 'pistol carbine'. 'Battle rifles' are just 'rifles' to the non gun community.
Another great point
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Utility rifle or utility carbine ;D and yes, BM reinforces his already proven 3rdness.
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(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll158/CyberflySRT8/MilwaukeeNailGun.jpg)
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Actually Im with BM to a point. I dont own a .223 carbine I would like to own a piston .308 though. AKs are heavy. ;D
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Tom and Junkie have long suffered from penis envy is all... Quite sad really. :'(
;)
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Makes me faster, more areodynamic and all. :P
It's less about the gun and more about the shooter. ::)
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Two foot prints and a drag mark says I don't envy anything.
(except for Billt's gun collection and Ske1ters African Safari )
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Is this a evil black rifle too?
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/Krinkov004.jpg)
My Grandfather really liked his with a wood stock....
ANY reply, by the gun industry to the multitude of anti gun folks is a "+" to those that enjoy the AR.
The Second Amendment isn't for the guns you like, it's also for the guns you hate.
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No thats one badass lever gun. Man that thing is sweet.
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Thats a pretty sweet rifle.
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Maybe it's me, but I'm not getting all of this politically correct name changing, in order to appease a group that would vote to totally enslave you if they had half a chance? With the exception of a very few fence sitters on the gun issue, it is a complete waste of time trying to convert an anti gunner into "liking" assault rifles, or most any gun for that matter. If they didn't exist, they would simply move down the list and start bitching about the next gun that, "hunters don't really need for sporting purposes".
This reminds me of that time Clinton came up with a "list" of firearms he, along with the government, would "guarantee" a citizen could own. There wasn't a single handgun on it! It was a bit like tempting the donkey with a turd instead of a carrot. I put this "kinder, gentler name changing" in the same category with trying to appease the anti's. These people, who would gladly destroy your Second Amendment rights with the stroke of a pen if they could, aren't worth the effort to deal with. It kind of sours my stomach trying this politically correct form of a$$ kissing. I'll continue to call my ASSAULT RIFLES just that. Especially in front of anti gunners, just because I know deep down it upsets them. As I see it with anti gunners it is always going to go one way or the other. Either they will be upset, or else I will. This is one way I can help them reach for the Alka Seltzer. Bill T.