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Not everyone is as easily defeated as you.[/quote]

I’m not “defeated”. I’m just being a realist and I make my decisions based on objectivity rather than emotion. And I’m a hobbyist in other areas (RC planes and amateur rocketry) who has a lot of the same equipment and understands the design of the guns.

The Washington Post can and should publish anything they want, but this is the same WaPo that also ran a good, analytical piece a few years ago stating that my child’s chance of being shot to death on school property and during the school day is less than one in 700 million, and that we need to stop letting emotion and fear play a part in the conversation.

I don’t hunt deer or deal with coyotes or foxes near my livestock, but growing up in a small town in the 80s, a lot of my “country kid” friends did. Many had AR-design or similar box magazine rifles back then and nobody really thought much of it, except back then they were relatively expensive. It was cheaper to buy a more traditional-looking wooden stock rifle.

Nowadays that “AR” 15 or the bigger 10 is just a ubiquitous “pattern” with no remaining patents, so anyone from an upstart company to a hobbyist in his garage can CNC mill one - or thousands. That genie left the bottle decades ago with the computer revolution.

Go into an outdoor / hunting store (not just a gun store) like Bass Pro Shops or Scheels, and you aren’t going to find many old 1950s-style walnut stocked and blued-steel rifles. From an aesthetic perspective that’s too bad, but Gen-Z doesn’t care for the design of grandpa’s deer rifle. Most everything for large or medium game is going to be an AR pattern aluminum gun; you simply have to snap on an upper barrel that’s chambered for a more powerful caliber that can take down a deer.

Among Gen-Z hunters and target competitors, these rifles are popular. Any Democrat politician with some urban and suburban constituents knows that. Politically, this issue is a done deal.

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Well that’s all cold comfort for the next set of slaughtered children. Ho hum. [/quote]

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