Why you should own an AR

[ChickNorris]

http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/12/top-10-reasons-ar-15/

[Irving]

Couldn't make it through. Might as well have been another "Top ten exercises you should be doing for a summer beach body!" article. The first reason talked about handguns.

[CS1983]

Couldn't make it through. Might as well have been another "Top ten exercises you should be doing for a summer beach body!" article. The first reason talked about handguns.

#11 - you can do rifle PT with an AR-15!

[ChickNorris]

I made no qualitative comment when I posted the link. Only made the article available to those that may not have had the opportunity or cause to read it.

[Irving]

We know. That was my review. I tried really hard.

[ChickNorris]

Hehehe

[izzy]

Read this the other day. The hand gun speach threw me off too.

[Bailey Guns]

#12 - They're cheap AF right now. Might as well.

[buffalobo]

#12 - They're cheap AF right now. Might as well.Amen. Damn straight.

Besides, gotta make sure the minions have opportunity when time comes.

[Erni]

#13 BFYTW
=)

[Grant H.]

Cause I wanna...

Duh...

[Great-Kazoo]

It's a sporting rifle?

[Rucker61]

I'm offended by the title's use of a singular article.

[Zcsdkr]

For what it’s worth... I’ve been trying to convince a friend of mine for over a year to buy/build one. This morning I sent him the link and now he says “well maybe I should then”. So... thank you for sharing.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Real meat behind reason #1 doesn't come until the end of it:

On the other hand, common criminals are not the only threat, nor even the primary threat, because of which the Second Amendment prohibits government from infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms.


arms were deemed to protect against every species of criminal usurpation, including ‘political crime,’ a phrase the Founders would have understood in its most literal sense.


tyrannous officials and judges or pillaging soldiery was a mere detail; the criminality of [what Thomas Paine termed] the ‘invader and plunderer’ lay in his violation of natural law and rights, regardless of the guise in which he violated them.

I'm sure the Jim Crow sheriffs and police officers that liberals often like to allude to were all in favor of strict gun control -- at least for some people. The American businessmen that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy were certainly in favor of gun control.

Reason 10 stands out: 10. The more Americans who own AR-15s, the more likely the Supreme Court will consider them “in common use.”

[SideShow Bob]

Well,
I am sure glad that I have never gotten another one of those evil black rifles since the floods of 2013 washed my safe away never to be seen again. Do you know that they will just jump on their own and shoot dozens if not hundreds of people without reason or warning ?

[OtterbatHellcat]

10. The more Americans who own AR-15s, the more likely the Supreme Court will consider them “in common use.”

Pelosi and Schumer will have a tremendously adverse effect on anything we care about, that's for sure.

[Squeeze]

Just bought another one on Friday (Thanks esizer [Beer]). Might even buy another one after the first of the year too!

[GilpinGuy]

This pretty much sums it up for me (and why don't images imbed for me? Maybe I missed a post about it.).

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[Justin]

Not a bad introductory article, and gives good talking points that will be useful in the inevitable fight against banning ARs.

That comment section though...yow. It's worth reading just to see how the other side thinks.

[Aloha_Shooter]

That comment section though...yow. It's worth reading just to see how the other side thinksfeels.

FIFY. They do no thinking there; it's all about the feeling.

[Rucker61]

10. The more Americans who own AR-15s, the more likely the Supreme Court will consider them ?in common use.?

Pelosi and Schumer will have a tremendously adverse effect on anything we care about, that's for sure.

Two points:

1. In Caetano v Massachusetts, a 9-0 SCOTUS decision, "hundreds of thousands" was considered common use.
2. In a recent New York decision, Maloney v Singas, a judge found that 64,890 pairs of nunchucks sold to the public qualified them for "in common use".

https://news.guns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/nunchaku-decision.pdf

ATF figures show 1.5 million AR-15s just for 2016 alone.

In Shew v Malloy the 2nd Circuit Court wrote that AR-15s and large capacity magazines are in common use for lawful purposes.

[Justin]

I've got a spreadsheet for the 2016 number derived from the BATFE PDF. I've put quite a bit of work into getting it formatted into something that's even somewhat readable and can be sorted.

I'll happily share it via email to anyone who requests it via PM. The file is too big to attach to VBulletin, and for some reason I can't seem to get the file size down.

If anything, I think the 1.5 million estimate might be slightly low, owing to the fact that they are likely omitting things like pistols. The document doesn't break out the guns by make, eg AR vs bolt action or whatever, but if you sort by number made the top gun makers make EBRs exclusively, or they are a part of their portfolio. For pistols, the number of pistols made that are bigger than .22 but smaller than .25 is pretty interesting.

Anderson MFG makes a crazy amount of guns and lowers.