This. Of course, you can’t tell anything certain from internet self-reporting, but many of these responses to a poster asking for informal information on multiple AR ownership on an ar15.com forum indicate, at the very least, that multiple AR ownership is seen as quite unremarkable.
Thirty or 40 weapons of any kind strikes me as a skosh unnecessary.
Eh, collectors gonna collect, as illustrated by looking at my yarn stash. But we need to distinguish, as begbert2 noted, between high numbers of owned items and high ownership rates. Just because Americans buy X million skeins of yarn annually doesn’t mean that a large percentage of Americans own yarn.
“In common use”. So even if there’s only a million people firing all these ARs, that seems to qualify. And while anecdote =/= data, most of the AR owners I know have just the one. They have multiple rifles and guns, but they tend to be of different types and makes. If you look at the rifles in question, it’s not just ARs though, it’s all semi-automatic rifles with “assault” features, like mags >10, or muzzle brake, or collapsible stock - and that adds another number of millions of rifles, and even if many of these are owned by people who have multiple, I have to believe that anything of which there are many millions around is in common use.
You mean all of those gun rights activists who marched through black neighborhoods, heavily armed, carried Confederate and Nazi flags, and did Nazi salutes? Those gun rights activists?
You mean those members of the organizers who were worried that the UN was going to set up roadblocks on Virginia highways and forcibly remove their guns?
One of the laws the rally was protesting would limit the purchase of guns to only one per month. Horrors, only able to buy twelve guns a year!
No need to restate my post. I was quite clear. The protest was organized, and largely attended by, gun owners who feel their rights are under threat. There were also others, with more vile intentions. I have no idea what any of the organizers believed about the UN.
I have no problem believing that in this gathering the proportion of black-helicopter FEMA-death camps believers is higher than the population in general. That doesn’t make all, or even most, of the people there similar idiots.
What does “AR” mean?
Yes. THOSE Nazis.
I bet the Nazi bastards were actually disappointed when they were
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I fully believe they wanted to see a lot of violence and bloodshed. But they were hoping to pretend they were the honorable and patriotic victims and to be portrayed as such.
Fortunately, no one took the bait. Their bullshit narrative was denied.
You can tell a man by the company he keeps. To me, if you yell Nazi slogans with Nazis and march with Nazis and sing Nazi songs with Nazis, GUESS WHAT.
I own a gun, I used to own MORE guns, but I wouldn’t be caught dead near any of those motherfuckers.
Armalite Rifle (from Snopes)
AR is the abbreviation for Armalite Rifle, the company that designed the rifle. The “A” has nothing to do with “assault” or “automatic” or anything else. You can easily verify this by a multitude of websites online.
They make me want to puke.
Immortalized in song way back in 1978 by Gang Of Four - Armalite Rifle