Orlando night club shooting

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Maybe... but shouldn't that be a choice made by the private business? Or should the government mandate it?

Before today I would have said the former.

 

[Oh Shoot]

AR-15-style rifles are NOT "assault weapons" or "assault rifles." An assault rifle is fully automatic -- a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.

If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an "assault weapon," he or she either supports banning these firearms or does not understand their function and sporting use, or both. Please correct them. "Assault weapon" is a political term created by California anti-gun legislators to ban some semi-automatic rifles there in the 1980s.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

AR stands for ArmaLite. The original designer.

Wouldn't that be AL?

 

[Catatonic]

AR---Assault Rifle

Marketing name (Armalite) plus it's been configured for semi-automatic.
Assault Rifles are fully automatic.
You were in the military ... I would think you would know that.
.30.06 (typical deer rifle) is a bigger round with twice the impact force.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

AR-15-style rifles are NOT "assault weapons" or "assault rifles." An assault rifle is fully automatic -- a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.

If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an "assault weapon," he or she either supports banning these firearms or does not understand their function and sporting use, or both. Please correct them. "Assault weapon" is a political term created by California anti-gun legislators to ban some semi-automatic rifles there in the 1980s.

Why would a civilian need to fire more than one bullet at a time?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Why would a civilian need to fire more than one bullet at a time?

In case you missed the first time m

 

[PT Car Washer]

AR-15-style rifles are NOT "assault weapons" or "assault rifles." An assault rifle is fully automatic -- a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.

If someone calls an AR-15-style rifle an "assault weapon," he or she either supports banning these firearms or does not understand their function and sporting use, or both. Please correct them. "Assault weapon" is a political term created by California anti-gun legislators to ban some semi-automatic rifles there in the 1980s.

My last M 16 was not full auto. Select fire with 3 round burst as was my M 4 that replaced it.

 

[Johney]

I have my cell phone and a more than capable police department less than 5 minutes away.

For reasons not important to this conversation, I will NEVER touch, let alone own, a firearm.

Yes and during hurricane Andrew many years ago the first few days after in Homestead friends of mine went down to help and were told by police that if you go into some of the neighborhoods you are on your own,we aren't going in it's too dangerous. So I guess if you lived there you'd call 911 as they are looting and stealing whatever water and supplies you may have stocked up on? Suppose something of that nature happened in your area?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Why would a civilian need to fire more than one bullet at a time?

How do you fire more than one bullet at a time?

 

[Oh Shoot]

Why would a civilian need to fire more than one bullet at a time?

You would being u quoted to never touch a gun being im guessing you would not be proficient when the need arises

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Marketing name (Armalite) plus it's been configured for semi-automatic.
Assault Rifles are fully automatic.
You were in the military ... I would think you would know that.
.30.06 (typical deer rifle) is a bigger round with twice the impact force.

I was in the Air Force. We used M-16's w/.22 caliber bullets. The selector button had semi and auto. We were told to use semi.

Ironically I was a very good shot, earning the Marksman Ribbon.

 

[Operational needs]

Come on @DriveInDriveOut I know you're still a baby, but you should really try using your big boy words. I know you know some.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

You would being u quoted to never touch a gun being im guessing you would not be proficient when the need arises

I am quite proficient in dialing 911 and letting the trained professionals do their jobs.

 

[Johney]

AR---Assault Rifle

Wrong.
Armalite

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Come on @DriveInDriveOut I know you're still a baby, but you should really try using your big boy words. I know you know some. View attachment 84428

Every time the kid posts something I have to read your derail response about how he's Canadian.
Put him on ignore if you don't want to read his garbage.

 

[Covemastah]

And if we banned all guns on america , this pos could ah used a grenade or set off a bomb !!

 

[Oh Shoot]

I am quite proficient in dialing 911 and letting the trained professionals do their jobs.

Okay to each their own...be a statistic one day i hope not

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Wrong.
Armalite

What is the purpose of a weapon designed to shoot more than one bullet in rapid succession?

 

[Johney]

Marketing name (Armalite) plus it's been configured for semi-automatic.
Assault Rifles are fully automatic.
You were in the military ... I would think you would know that.
.30.06 (typical deer rifle) is a bigger round with twice the impact force.

He was in the Air Force.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Okay to each their own...be a statistic one day i hope not

Survivor is a statistical category.