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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if you are supporter of the 2nd amendment and all about gun rights, what’s the point of doing this?  It’s insulting to the families who lost loved ones in shooting massacres to nuts with AR-15s.[/quote]

It shouldn’t be an insult to anyone except those advocating using force of law and police violence to take lawfully owned rifles away from Americans who legally own them.

The AR-15 is THE most common long gun/rifle in America. There are more AR-15’s than there are minivans on the road. These pins make it clear to everyone  they stand against disarming the American people. I support that. [/quote]

[b]when these guns are outlawed they get rid of most of them [/b]with a buy back program so relax and stop spouting nonsense.  no one is coming to forcibly take your precious gun.  most will sell it when they realize it is good for nothing and they would rather have the cash.

And Santos is a garbage representative by all accounts so anything that crook does should be viewed with high suspicion.[/quote]

The Heller decision made it abundantly clear that guns “in common use” are protected by our Constitution. I’m not really sure you can cite a rifle [i]more common[/i] than an AR-15. There is an AR-type rifle in more than 10% of American households. They aren’t going anywhere.

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This is incorrect.  AR-15s represent less than 5% of the guns in America.  And your math is way off, because you can't just divide the number of AR-15s by the number of households because they are not evenly distributed across households.  Some of you AR fetishists have a bunch of them rather than just one in your household.  [/quote]

Sorry, but [i]your[/i] numbers are incorrect.

There are 400,000,000 guns in the US. Of those, 32,000,000 are AR-15 rifles. Another 8-9,000,000 are AR-15 pistols. Another 20,000,000 are rifles that are similar to, but not, AR-pattern type firearms, which are essentially functionally equivalent. So call that ~60,000,000 in total. AR-15 type firearms represent about 15% of all firearm types in the US. That is the single largest group of firearms, by type, and the most common type of rifle, by an enormous margin. A person is more likely to own an AR-15 than any other type of rifle.

They are far more common than most people here seem to understand. Just because [i]you[/i] might not know anyone who owns one (as statistically unlikely as that is) it doesn’t mean tens of millions of Americans don’t. [/quote]

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