The more powerful .30 caliber round above the little M-16/AR-15 (.223 caliber) round Common (.30 caliber) hunting rifle M-1 Rifle semi-automatic (.30 caliber) used in WW-2 and the Korean War AR-15 civilian rifle (.223 caliber) Los Angeles, CA —Nearly three decades ago the Gun Control zealots pulled a fast one on the public and media.   This was right out of Nazi propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels’ playbook. Goebbels said that,   “If you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth.” We all know now that he was spot on in that observation! Certain military rifles were called assault rifles.   Perhaps it was a marketing gimmick to make them sound all-powerful and magical.   They were also all fully automatic as in,  machine guns . Soon gun makers exploited the designs of some of these assault rifles for the legal civilian market.   They made lookalike rifles that were only semi-automatic.   Any similarity of the AR-15 rifle t...

Washington-DC —The latest political assault on gun rights seems to surround this rifle platform more than any. However they are planning to ban millions of other handguns, rifles and shotguns along the way.  Ignorance and stupidity is leading the gun banners and grabbers in the wrong direction.  The AR-15/M-16/M-4 is essentially the same short rifle or carbine.  It fires a miniscule .223caliber/5.56 MM cartridge.   The already banned military M-16/M-4 assault rifle versionis fully automatic is not part of this argument.  The military version was designed so that the user could pull the trigger once and fire two to three rounds.  Holding the trigger back would of courseallow a machinegun type burst of fire until the magazine of up to 30 rounds went empty. However the barrel would be quickly destroyed by heat with thiskind of fire.  This little rifle was onlydesigned to fire the short bursts doubling or tripling the likelihood the targe...