Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15

[Fife]

You should absolutely own several other firearms *before* you purchase an AR-15, btw. This is something of an advanced course.

Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15

In a recent item for The Federalist, David Harsanyi considered the M16 rifle one of the five most innovative firearms in American firearm development history. Yet something equally significant can be said about the semi-automatic AR-15 derived from the M16. Second to the muskets used in our revolutionary and civil wars, the AR-15 may be the most important firearm in American political history.

All told, more Americans have fired more rounds from more AR-15s for personal defense, defensive firearm training, marksmanship competitions, individual practice, and hunting than from any other rifle. For that reason, the AR-15 is the primary firearm upon which Americans would rely if they had to fight for freedom today.

Here are 10 reasons to own at least one AR-15 and to become skilled in its use.

1. Being armed is your right and may be your civic duty.
2. The AR-15 is the most useful firearm with which to defend against ‘every species of criminal usurpation’ because, first and foremost, it is a rifle.
3. The AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle.
4. The AR-15 is one of the most validated rifles in history.
5. The AR-15 is the most modular rifle in history.
6. In most cases, you can fix your AR-15 yourself.
7. The AR-15 is the rifle most commonly used for defensive firearm training.
8. The AR-15 is the rifle most commonly used for marksmanship competitions.
9. If you are skilled with your AR-15, you can help prepare young Americans for military service.
10. The more Americans who own AR-15s, the more likely the Supreme Court will consider them “in common use.”

[TheReal_ND]

Own three or four guns:

Gc19
AR15
12ga

[C-Mag]

Own three or four guns:

Gc19
AR15
12ga

+1

Need a .22 as well

[C-Mag]

My personal ethos, and an ethos supported by our nations founding, requires every able bodied head of household to retain a rifle, ammunition and be skilled in it's use to defend ones home and community.

I see owning an AR-15 as a Civic Obligation.

[DrYouth]

for us more ignorant on guns, what is a GC19?

[Montegriffo]

for us more ignorant on guns, what is a GC19?

Glock handgun

[Ph64]

for us more ignorant on guns, what is a GC19?

Glock handgun

That was my assumption. Never seen it abbreviated as GC, but couldn't think of anything else but a Glock. Especially when the other two are rifle and shotgun, the obvious third is pistol.

[Montegriffo]

Nukedog has expressed his liking for Austrian designed handguns before.
America first and MAGA being the second choice when wanting a reliable weapon.

Yeah, yeah I know they are produced in the US too.
Nuke, is yours stamped Austria or USA?
Or a cheap Taiwan knock off?

[C-Mag]

Venezuelans regret gun ban

CUCUTA, Venezuela

“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.”

The law has only been in affect for 5 years.
The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all - except government entities.

Weapons were taken by force
Chavez initially ran a months-long amnesty program encouraging Venezuelans to trade their arms for electrical goods. That year, there were only 37 recorded voluntary gun surrenders, while the majority of seizures - more than 12,500 – were by force.

Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it.
The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.

Regret Set in Quickly
He said it didn’t take long for such a wide-eyed public perception to fall apart. “If guns had been a stronger part of our culture, if there had been a sense of duty for one to protect their individual rights, and as a show of force against a government power – and had legal carry been a common thing – it would have made a huge difference,” he lamented.

Same Old Lies and Propaganda
Although the bill was sold to the population as a hardline effort to improve security, and sharply reduce crime, many now point to Venezuela as a case study for how gun prohibition can actually produce the opposite effect.

Government backed gangs rule the streets
They were set up by the government to act as proxies and exert community control. They're the guys on the motorcycles in the poor neighborhoods, who killed any protesters,” said Vanessa Neumann, the Venezuelan-American president and founder of Asymmetrica, a Washington, D.C.-based political risk research and consulting firm. “The gun reform policy of the government was about social control. As the citizenry got more desperate and hungry and angry with the political situation, they did not want them to be able to defend themselves. It was not about security; it was about a monopoly on violence and social control

So while Venezuelan citizens were stripped of their legal recourse to bear arms, the “collectivos” – established by Chavez when came to power – were legally locked and loaded. Deemed crucial to the survival of the socialist dictatorship, the “collectivos” function to brutally subjugate opposition groups, while saving some face as they aren’t officially government forces, critics contend.



AN AR-15, not just a good idea, it's your Duty.


https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela ... -ourselves

[C-Mag]

NJ residents defy magazine turn in
Over one million New Jersey Gun owners defy Governor Murphy's gun magazine ban & turn in demands of what some estimate is easily more than ten million now illegal standard capacity gun mags.

New Jersey was a pivotal state during the American Revolution, the governor was the bastard son of Ben Franklin and a staunch loyalist. While the countryside was filled with Patriots.
https://www.ammoland.com/2018/12/new-je ... z5Zlk2d6UG