Whats your response to "nobody hunts with an 'assault rifle'?"

[digitalrebel80]

MSR, yep. Multi-use Sporting Rifle. 22 for small game, 5.56 for med game, 458 for large game and a ton of others for every thing in between. AR15 most versatile rifle ever made. I agree that 2A has absolutely nothing to do with hunting. It's all about keeping our government under control. Something they're not happy about. Repeal the NFA laws as they're illegal and have done nothing for safety as well. Just one more infringement on or rights.
When are we going to finally get a Pro 2A president? Not some wimpy wishy washy one either. We need someone who will flat out fight for our rights first and foremost.

THIS I agree 100%

 

[Paul30]

First I tell them Assault is a verb, not an adjective, and it is one Handgun Control Incorporated who now call themselves the Brady Bunch have made up to make the gun sound scary and evil. I tell them the guns they are trying to get banned FIRST, they must demonize the most to convince people that know little about them that these inanimate objects are living breathing evil things that must be done away with. I then explain what a person wants in a hunting rifle depends on what they are hunting. A person who hunts coyote's may find themselves surrounded at night by a pack of coyotes and may very well need a few full capacity magazines. I would hate to read the paper tomorrow and find a coyote hunter was found half eaten by a pack of coyote's because he had a restricted capacity magazine because our legislators decided American citizens could not be trusted to posses a magazine that held more than a few measly bullets.

Once I short circuit the magazine issue, I go on to discus what makes a rifle, any rifle weather used for target shooting, hunting, or home defense, a good rifle. I proceed to describe the AR15 by definition, then I go on to explain why I think other older hunting rifles fall short.

Reliable, accurate, durable, and easily upgraded or repaired. A gun that can be taken to any gun shop and repaired because it is so common that they stock every part for it, and are so familiar with it because the majority of people own that exact model of rifle. I also like a detachable magazine because I can unload it and make it safe in about a second, not so with the older type guns. It takes longer to unload the older type guns and you need to cycle the action on several to unload them like the old pump shotguns causing premature wear. It comes in a multitude of calibers so it can be adapted to any function an owner needs to fill. It is the most popular rifle in America by far for a reason. In Indiana, the 458 socom is one of the few calibers you can hunt deer with in a rifle, and it happens com also come in an AR15.

 

[cobber]

Why own an "assault rifle"? To repel assaults on your home, family or place of business.

DUH!

LA 1992?

(Hint: they're not hunting or engaged in sport shooting. BTW, where's LAPD?)

 

[CindyE]

it just irritates me to no end when people speak up about something they know nothing about! the problem is, the uninformed public doesn't know that these people don't know squat! it's our job to inform them, if they will listen, i guess! sometimes it's just beating a dead horse and i ignore it or

 

[ride22]

the second amendment has nothing at all to do with hunting.

Exactly. I hate it when people use the second amendment as a supposed right to hunt.

 

[kjf48197]

Depending on what you mean by "assault rifle". AR-15 pattern sport rifles come in a variety of calibers suitable for most game on the North American continent.

This is my response as well.

 

[Lucas156]

People don't drive cars 100 mph on the road either....

 

[xring62]

I just used my AR15 in .204 ruger Yoty hunting today. so many city golf playing wussies have no clue

 

[Water63]

I tell them I use the MSR platform to hunt with I have a 22 upper for small game and use the 24 inch fluted 223 for Coyotes. Looking at a legal deer setup also.
But the second amendment is not about hunting or a certain type of firearm.

I like the Multi Use Sporting Rifle.

 

[Johnny C]

I find that most anti gun folks cant be INFORMED about the truth concerning what they see as the evil Assault Rifle.

They dont want to hear it, and they WONT hear it.

I have been in more than a few conversations concerning this subject.

And when I tell them the facts, they say "thats not true, cause I heard X on the news" And they believe the news.

Telling them that the news is just Anti-gun Liberal rhetoric to push an agenda, garners unbelief also.

Its just frustrating.

 

[jbombelli]

It's been a few years now, but I've hunted wild pigs down in Texas with my AK-47.

So they can STFU.


But the 2nd Amendment ain't about hunting. Of course, that really depends on exactly what you're hunting and why, though, doesn't it?

 

[spqr]

I inform them that "assault" is a behavior, consequently, since my AR-15 has never assaulted anybody, it is simply a semi-automatic long gun...and semi-automatic long guns are the most commonly used hunting firearms on the planet!

After reading these posts...I really like the term multi-use sporting rifle! Thanks.

 

[gunowner930]

50% of all rifle sales are AR15 variants, many are used every day for hunting!

Do you have a link to that? I'm not doubting the accuracy of your statement, I would just like to be able to cite it.

The idea that hunting is somehow more noble or righteous than collecting or target shooting is going to be a continuing theme over the next few months in the media. This idea of pitting "hunters" against the rest of the gun owning community is coming straight out of the Kenyan gun control strategy and they plan to also enlist big retailers to get rid of private transfers and guns show purchases. We better all stick together. They want to divide us.

Exactly. I don't hunt nor have I cared to, but others do and I respect that. However, I do not respect fudds that buy into that crap and are willing to **** on us that own black rifles and pistols.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I would be inclined toward telling such a person who would raise this question that I see no more need for justifying to anyone else's satisfaction the need or purpose for owning such a weapon, which is a constitutional right, than I would expect anyone to need to articulate a 'legitimate' reason for speak/communicating, refusing to have troops quartered in their homes, denying the police permission to snoop through the house just because they want to, or a 'legitimate' reason for rejecting cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[kiddchaos]

When I walked through one of the homes in Colonial Williamsburg, there was a rifle in the corner of the bedroom. No one questioned it being there.

 

[cobber]

When I walked through one of the homes in Colonial Williamsburg, there was a rifle in the corner of the bedroom. No one questioned it being there.

Prudence Brady did in 1774, but was transported back to Jolly Olde Englande after the Revolution.

 

[Willie]

Good stuff here...

Hunting rifles have evolved and the AR is the latest evolvement..



This is my Hunting Rifle: The Evolution of Hunting Rifles in the United States | The Truth About Guns

 

[HoughMade]

What do I say?

#1 Yes they do.

#2 I thought we were talking about the Second Amendment, not hunting.

 

[mrburtreynoldsou]

Stealing this for my facebook page

 

[Mark 1911]

That's like saying nobody goes shopping with a Corvette, a Harley, or a Hayabusa. So what. I can go shopping with whatever vehicle I want to. Never say "nobody does", because it isn't true, "somebody" does.

But first and foremost, the 2nd Amendment is not about hunting. Governor Cuomo of New York ranted just this past week about how "nobody needs more than 10 bullets to kill a deer". Again, that's irrelevant as the 2nd Amendment is not about hunting.