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Hatred for the AR15 at the turn of the century at beyond stems almost entirely from mass shootings, but why do mass shooters choose the AR15? Well, there are three main reasons, virtually none of which I'd guess your average gun control advocate knows. If you're going to hate something, you should at least understand said thing. I shall help you in this endeavor. Let's start with the basics.
I saw a Quora question titled, "Why is the AR15 so dangerous?" Is it dangerous? Absolutely, but the reasons people give are always tied up emotion and not fact. I've seen every gun control advocate under the sun try to define the modern "assault rifle" and those explanations are usually something along the lines of "it's a gun and it goes pewpewpewpewpewpewpew!" Which is of course, absurd. The AR15 is the gun that goes "pew pew pew... pew pew... pew pew", at best. Jokes aside, let's go over the "dangerous" characteristics of the AR15.
Why is the AR15 so dangerous? Reason #1: good design. The AR15 is a rifle designed around the realities of modern shooting. It was not necessarily designed to kill, as any gun can kill. It was designed to shoot. I'm a fan of Paul Harrel's interpretation of the the 357 magnum. "357 Magnum is powerful, but I am steadfastly of the opinion that it is virtually useless unless you hit what you're shooting at." That reality applies to all guns, and the AR15 was designed with this in mind. First off, cartridge selection. The AR15 is chambered in .223 Remington, which is a low recoiling caliber with small cartridges. Small cartridges means you can fit more of them into a single magazine. Contrast that to the .308 Winchester, which has more girth and length in the cartridge, 20 rounds of 308 weighs more and takes up more space than 30 rounds of .223. In spite of .308 having more energy, a larger bullet, and a greater effective range, .223 is still considered the superior cartridge because .308 has much more recoil. Shooting .308 is harder than shooting .223. Reloading is also a thing you’re going to have to do, so the reloading process was streamlined via the inclusion of the last round hold open(which means you don’t have the charge the gun on empty) and good placement of the magazine release, which doesn’t require you to remove your trigger hand from the pistol grip. That means magazine changes can be done in one motion. Contrast that with the AK47, where you have to use your left hand to release and strip the magazine, then charge the gun to chamber the first round, it takes more like 2 or 3 motions. Observe:
The AR15 is also made of aluminum and plastic, where all of the rifles of the time were wood and pressed steel. Aluminum weighs less than steel and plastic weighs less than wood, so the gun is lighter than other competing designs. The AR15 is just well thought out. There’s no military madness or evil magic to it. It was designed by a man who understood the needs, and more importantly the limitations, of the average shooter and fit the rifle to work within those confines.
Reason #2: Availability. In 1964, the AR15 was adopted by the US military to replace M14, dubbed the M16. At the time, Colt Manufacturing had the patent on the design and the contract to build the weapon for the military. After most of Colt's patents for the AR15 expired in 1977, many firearm manufacturers began to produce copies of the AR15 under various names. This is important for one key reason, standardization. While other firearms and their parts are proprietary to the company making them, AR15s are not. Most AR15 parts are interchangeable between manufacturers, and many companies making the same design means the gun itself becomes cheaper since there is more market place competition. Combine that with the military adoption, which gives most gun owners a hard on, the AR15 became America's rifle. There are millions of them in circulation and thousands more being produced every month. There are a lot of AR15s around and you can buy one for not a lot of money.
Reason #3: This is probably the single most important reason, Media Hype. The media loves to hate the AR15. They love it so much that they have to utter the term every 5 minutes. Why is this important? Most mass shooters are after one thing and one thing only, media attention. Murdering lots of people usually gets the job done, but if you do it with an AR15 then the media will shout your name from the rooftops. People will be talking about you for decades after your death or incarceration. The name of the Sandy Hook school shooter is seared into the brains of the pro-gun and pro-gun control crowds alike. The message is clear, if you use an AR15 to shoot a lot of people, you will be famous. So given that using the gun gets a mass shooter what he wants, why in the hell wouldn't he use one? If he used an SKS, a PS90, or an M1 Carbine, the media wouldn't even know what to call the gun. "Uhm, the shooter used an ARish style 15 rifle we think? Sorry folks, we only know the one gun. And now we will move on to the next story of the day." He'd be forgotten like a one night stand.
So now yee, gun control advocate, can at least put a reason to the hate. You have some understanding of the thing you loathe. The AR15 is the mass shooter's weapon of choice because it's well designed, it's easy to find, and most importantly, you will help make the shooter famous after the fact. So will NBC, ABC, and the BBC(because we know no one watches CNN).
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0 1Very well thought out and I was actually surpried how accurate this was.
I think another issue is that people don't know what "AR" actually stands for. Everone assumes "automatic rifle" or "assault rifle".
I just have one small correction, the AR-15 was never adopted and re-dubbed M-16, it was re-engineered into a different rifle altogether to meet the military's standards. The new rifle was designated "M-16"
"I just have one small correction, the AR-15 was never adopted and re-dubbed M-16, it was re-engineered into a different rifle altogether to meet the military's standards." That's a gripe at best, since the only thing Colt changed on the rifle after buying the patent was relocating the charging handle to the rear of the receiver. Since Colt owned the patent at that point, the gun was still technically the "AR15" even after it was adapted. There was never a point in time where it wasn't, even after being adopted by the military as the M16.
As a nerd I couldn't let a technicality go unadressed lol. And that's kinda what I was getting at. Because the M16 was for sure build upon the AR. Besides the charging handle location the M-16, the cartrige was changed to 5.56, and I believe the M-16 was Semi, burst, and full auto. Like I said, I'm just nitpicking cause I'm a nerd for this stuff.