Facts About the AR-15 Rifle Lay People Don't Know
The AR-15 (and variants) is the second most common rifle in the world.
The rifle style among women most rising in popularity is the AR-15.
Why?
The AR-15 is mild caliber, low recoil and easy to use even for people of small build. It is relatively inexpensive.
The media created myth that the AR-15 is some super powered behemoth of a gun not seen before is utterly false. The AR-15 is essentially a souped up .22. Among hunting categories, it is considered a varmint rifle.
The photo above shows two popular rifle rounds. The large one is the venerable .30-06 Springfield. It was adopted by the Army in 1906. It was the standard battle rifle round for the United States armed forces from WWI through the Korean War. The United States maintains rifles in this caliber in armories to this day. The government sells these rifles to civilians who sign up for the US Marksmanship Program. The .30-06 is also the most popular cartridge in hunting rifles for North American game.
The varmint round next to the .30-06 is the 5.56mm which is a slight variant of the .223 Remington. So similar are the 5.56 and the .223 that many rifles can fire either one. This small round is used for most AR-15 style rifles.
The AR-15, media hype notwithstanding, is not the preferred weapon of criminals. In fact, only a tiny percentage of homicides are committed with any type of rifle. Hands and feet, knives, hammers etc. are used in far more homicides than rifles.
The Supreme Court in the Heller decision actually names M-16/AR-15 style rifles as the textbook example of a small arm protected by the Second Amendment.
As we have seen in Canada, Australia and some parts of Europe where “Democracies” have put down peaceful protests using brutal tactics with militarized police, rights that exist merely on paper do not exist at all. Rifles give people the ability to resist evil with effective means.
Being the second most common rifle in the world, you might as well have tried to ban the musket in 1776. The British tried that and....