Nevermind.
But more importantly for legislatures around the country is it an “Assault Rifle”?
And if so, is this an assault rifle:
How super cheap are AR-15 type guns compared to HK416, F2000, X95, and other more modern rifles?
Because of the huge variety mentioned above AR-15s range from moderately cheap to extremely expensive.
That would completely depend on how it’s defined. I mean, it’s semi-auto, it’s magazine fed, and it can take 30+ round magazines. But it’s also chambered in 22 long rifle, it’s got a wood stock, no pistol grip, and old-school iron sights.
It’s awfully close. But then so is a SKS, and so are all the various semi-automatic hunting rifles out there.
That’s just the thing- what makes an assault rifle? Semi auto operation? Why wouldn’t a Benelli R1 not qualify if a 10/22 does? What makes an AR-15 type rifle qualify, but not those two?
It’s not well defined as a term, and that’s part of what makes it so unhelpful as something descriptive.
You can get an AR-15 for $500 but those are the dirt cheap lowest part quality guns. The “regular” lines made by reputable brands like Smith and Wesson run from $800 to $1,100, which is still very cheap compared to X95s, HK-416s and such which run up to $2,000.
Though at the $800 price point there are definitely cheaper “assault weapons” since you can get all sorts of pistol caliber carbines (basically assault rifle looking guns but chambered in pistol cartridges) for $300 to $500. In terms of full rifles? Surplus SKS rifles which fire the AK-47 round can be had for about $400 to $500 and while they don’t have magazines by default, can be fairly easily legally modded to use magazines with parts you buy online.
That would be an AR-10 then. Lots of the same functional and cosmetic aspects, but not interchangeable.
Yeah, it all depends on how and who defines a “mass shooting”. In some of the most common definitions-the FBI defines a “mass shooting” as any incident in which at least four people are murdered with a gun.
What is a mass shooting?
The term “mass shooting” can refer to firearm-related events with various outcomes depending on which definition is being used.…
News reports on the number of mass shootings in the US are likely to reference the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that defines a mass shooting as an event with a “minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.”
Note the difference.
In the most common definition- the 2nd- by far the most common mass shooting is a drug gang shooting, most often with a handgun.
In the type that make the national news, the most common often include a semi-auto rifle, such as the AR15. (sometimes a AK47 clone), often with a handgun.
So, yeah, it is understandable why people think its the AR15, since that is what the media shows.
The Armsel Striker aka “street sweeper” shotgun, is mostly illegal in the USA;
From $500+ to $2000. Not very cheap.
Close in terms of bullet diameter, but the NATO 7.62X51mm (e.g., AR-10) is most directly related to the .308 Winchester round, not the 30-06.
If that’s truly a 30-06 receiver (and it might be, judging from the length of the magazine well), it’s an odd duck.
I mean generally speaking the distinction is in cartridge length, things that are .308-ish length go with a AR-10. .30-06 is even longer and a rather rare breed indeed. This appears to be a Noreen BN36X3 from back in 2012, with a goal to “recreate the M1 Garand”. With no “ping” and marginal advantage over .308, I don’t understand it.
Edit: or I misread, prototyped around 2012, released in 2019
OK. That’s what he said, though- would it have been illegal about 1995?
I’m not up on my firearms. Anyone who wants one in Canada has to go through a criminal/background check, take a hunter safety course, get their FAC certificate, and ensure that the item is stored when not in use in an approved locked cabinet. You also need that FAC to buy ammunition, or to buy a gun privately. People who really want a gun can do that, but it’s not something done in a momentary impulse or panic. In the goode olde days my dad had his 303(?) rifle from WWII home guard that followed him from UK to Canada, but somewhere along the way he probably felt it was a bother and somehow disposed of it.
So the news reports out of Uvalde mentioned that the rounds used were so powerful that they made a huge mess of the bodies (especially children) to the point where DNA was necessary to identify the individual bodies. I’m assuming that means it was not .22 ammunition? What would it be? That was blamed on an AR15 in the press.
I don’t remember this and find it unlikely. The standard AR platform fires 5.56 mm (equivalent to .223 caliber) so not much different than .22LR in diameter. It’s much higher velocity but it’s not going to destroy a body beyond recognition. The most grievous outcome I can imagine is (spoilering because description of bodily damage)
a correctly aligned shot at the back of a victim’s head may result in an exit wound which destroys part of the victim’s face
But I’m not sure that would be enough damage to reduce identification to DNA analysis.
Unfortunately I have seen more than my fair share of gunshot victims. I’m including suicides and accidents. It’s not like I lived in Cabot Cove, there wasn’t a murder a week. Never once saw someone so damaged you would need DNA to ID them. It may be they did not want to put families through the ordeal of visually identifying a loved one with grusome injuries.
Close- 1994 was when it was “banned”.
My Sask relatives (and this was a while ago) were farmers, and they had shotguns, deer rifles, and a .22 kept unlocked for foxes, etc attacking the chickens.
AR 15, with ,223, and the rounds are not that powerful. Hell, even a .50 sniper round isnt that powerful. Now a shotgun to the face will make the victim unrecognizable.