Get the Facts About AR-15-style Rifles

Here are the facts:

• 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.
• If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an “assault weapon,” he or she either supports banning these firearms or does not understand their function and sporting use, or both. Please correct them. “Assault weapon” is a political term created by California anti-gun legislators to ban some semi-automatic rifles there in the 1980s.
• 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.
• These rifles’ accuracy, reliability, ruggedness and versatility serve target shooters and hunters well. They are true all-weather firearms.
• Chamberings include .22, .223 (5.56 x 45mm), 6.8 SPC, .308, .450 Bushmaster and about a dozen others. Upper receivers for pistol calibers such as 9 mm, .40, and .45 are available. There are even .410 shotgun versions.
• These rifles are used for many different types of hunting, from varmint to big game. And they’re used for target shooting in the national matches.
• 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.
• The AR-15 platform is modular. Owners like being able to affix different “uppers” (the barrel and chamber) to the “lower” (the grip, stock).
• And, they are a lot of fun to shoot!

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The feds take a shot at guns

From the Washington Times:

Gun-control advocates claim that banning the CDC from examining gun control amounts to a gag order on science. After all, what can be wrong with further scientific inquiry? But the issue isn't about scientific inquiry. It is whether government resources should be used to promote an ideological agenda.

Take the Obama administration's justification for its new gun research. "Gun-related violence is a public health problem - it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH," wrote the agency spokesman in an e-mail responding to questions from Republican members of Congress about new grants the CDC is giving out. The statement assumes the conclusion of the research before the first study is done.

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Shotgun/Carbine/Rifle/Subgun

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CLUNKER GUN

It was reported to me that this (what appears to be a gun) is in fact not a gun but a collection of used car parts assembled in such a way as to impersonate a gun. I guess we could call it the CLUNKER GUN

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Some Articles from other locations about gun control

Heritage Foundation takes aim at gun case

Court case will test extent of gun rights

Guns: Pending case has broader implications

450 Mayors Petition Obama To Adopt Broad Gun Reform

Chicago's ineffective gun ban faces Supreme Court review

Arizona allows guns in bars. Should any place be off-limits?

Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison plans to file brief in gun control case before Supreme Court


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So, what's the concealed-weapons law?

Article from GJSentinel.com By PAUL SHOCKLEY/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel [CLICK HERE]

A traveling salesman, Jim doesn’t need his concealed weapons permit where he spends most of his life: on the road.

State law prohibits possession of a firearm anytime someone is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and the weapons can’t be brought onto property at schools, universities or colleges.

Handguns in full view on a hip holster are legal, but not the most sensible option, Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said.

“If you’re really interested in personal protection, you’re not going to draw attention to yourself,” Hilkey said.
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Because of confusion about self defense the responsible clubs offering training for a Colorado Concealed Weapons Permit offer as a part of their classes 3-hours of Colorado State Law pertaining to self defense, "make my day" and other issues that pertain.

Court case will test extent of gun rights

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court raised the stakes for its new term and for gun owners nationwide by agreeing Wednesday to hear an appeal from firearms owners in Chicago. The question in the case goes to the heart of the Second Amendment and could become a major test of the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts.

The gun owners are challenging an appeals court ruling that the Second Amendment's guarantee of an individual right to guns applies only to federal law, not to state and local regulations.

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