Went to the range today to empty some .223 brass. Shooting at dangling scrap wood is a hell of a lot more fun then simply punching paper.
Picked up some NJ compliant PMAGS from Riflegear recently, thankfully they work great. Just like the real deal ones I used in Georgia earlier this year.
As I was cleaning up, I noticed somebody getting a private lesson in gun safety, specifically rifles. I walked past these folks a few times to toss trash in the trash receptacle, and the last time, I heard the instructor refer to an AR platform rifle as an *assault rifle*. I thought to myself *It’s a modern sporting rifle you dope*.
*sigh*
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To most people and many shooters any AR or AK variant will always be known as an “assault rifle”. Before the anti semi-auto hysteria that began in the late 1980′s, most gun magazines had no problem calling these rifles assault rifles. The anti-gun crowd only began targeting these rifles due to their looks after they found it impossible to ban handguns and afterward it wasn’t considered right for pro-gunners to call them assault rifles.
I think it’s being a little to politically correct if you correct everyone that calls an AR an assault rifle. Personally I like the German term Strumgewehr, it sounds even scarier.
BTW: what range were you at?
Someplace around Stroudsburg PA, the name is escaping me….