I hope your are playing the role of the devil's advocate here Bruce as you have fallen into the media's "assault rifle" hogwash. I don't own an AR platform rifle nor do I wish to own one. But many of my friends do and they use them the same way we use our double guns: to hunt with and to target shoot. If I "assaulted" someone with a handgun or even with one of my Parkers would'nt that be deemed an assault weapon? The AR platform rifle is nothing more than the evolution of the musket available in 1776, much like the hammerless shotgun is the evolution of the matchlock weapon.
Lawmakers DO NOT give us the right to own weapons, the 2nd amendment does. I'ts just that simple. The Declaration also assures us certain unalienable rights; Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All three are protected by the 2nd Amend. I'm certainly not a black helicopter kind of guy but when things go to hell in a handbasket, which they will, you can defend your property with a lovely graded Parker. I'll take an AR with a couple thousand rounds loaned to me by my one of my "black gun" buddies.
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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