I don’t dispute that the visual similarities and design heritage of the M-16 and AR-15 make them easy to conflate, what I’ve been disputing is your insistence that using language that deliberately increases the confusion on the matter isn’t disingenuous or misleading. The effort to increase the confusion in the eyes…

The same is true for basically every available modern firearm though. Short of over-under double barrel shotguns, side by side dangerous game rifles, toggle lock biathlon rifles, and some of the really rare and oddball long recoil hunting semi-autos, every single gun in the gunsafes of sportsmen and recreational…

“Assault rifle” is a term of art referring to fully automatic infantry weapons, the full automatic (or burst fire) function being part of the definition. “Assault Weapon” is a term of law invented invented by the Violence Policy Center and used for the 1994 Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Act, which by legal…

One’s a machine gun, the other is just a rifle. It’s hardly a small difference. The uninformed often conflate semiautomatic with full automatic often enough, using these two terms interchangeably when you should know better is being intentionally deceptive.

Never mind that Chipper Jones says “Assault Rifle” not “Assault Weapon” and Assault Rifle specifically refers to a select fire rifle, but there’s no functional difference between your father’s .30-06 and my Savage MSR-10 Hunter, in terms of what they can do, anyways. Mine just looks frightening.

My folks had an 84 Aerofront Monte Carlo with T tops. It was my favorite thing as a little kid, but unfortunately it got sandwiched between a pair of dump trucks at a stop light and replaced with a Lumina. Everyone in the family hated the Lumina.

You need to work on your reading comprehension, “Mr. Smartypants” was referring to the ad homien you aimed at me. I’m sorry if my extraneous apostrophy after “that” was confusing.

Would you take American’s for Prosperity’s word on the provenance of the NAACP’s funding?

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If they are selling guns for profit (and or more than 6 per year), and they don’t have an FFL, they are already committing federal felonies. Again, if they are selling enough guns that they have a table at the gunshow to sell guns, and they aren’t actually selling something else like militaria and perhaps a handful of…

Because $40 is just the standard annual membership, they make deals like this in exchange for more money from their “affiliate companies”, their insurance offerings include premium services with more coverage that are not revenue neutral, their training services are not revenue neutral, they solicit donations direct…

Gun show purchases do require background checks, unless you’re talking about meeting someone at a gunshow and buying their firearm. You can’t be a dealer without an FFL, and an FFL can’t sell a firearm without performing a background check on form 4473. Closing the “gunshow loophole” requires banning people selling…

Years ago, the NRA actually believed in gun control as an aspect of responsible gun ownership. What happened to that organization?

I’m sorry if I’m not going to take what CAP says about the NRA at face value, especially when they mention that the NRA spent 35 million on the 2016 election cycle, considering that the NRA spent 32 million in 2012, and 28 million in 2008, don’t actually tie the NRA to Russian donations, and then spend the rest of the…

Because the NRA has 5 million members. The NRA isn’t an industry group, contrary to popular image, the vast majority of their funds are collected from individual members at $40/year and via the “NRA round up” program where retailers ask purchasers to round a puchase up to the next dollar and give the change to the…

I was going to post Pennock’s Fiero Forum, but it looks like they’ve had major site upgrades since my last visit, which shocks me because their software was 20 years out of date 5 years ago, and most of those sites never migrate to anything newer.

We’ve got a broken culture. Banning the sale of new AR 15s when we’ve already got 15,000,000+ in civilian hands isn’t going to move the needle on gun deaths. Further Aaron was killed by a handgun, equivalent in effect to what John Wayne carried in his western movies, not an AR-15. What we really need to do is fix the…

The Corvette has really long gearing and is pretty slippery in the air, it’ll get better than 25 mpg way past 75 mph.

I don’t happen to own a Corvette, but I do agree to a point. The Corvette and the 911 are faster than most “super cars” but they don’t quite fire the imagination like exotic cars.

Sure.