05-29-2024, 04:40 AM
(05-29-2024, 03:50 AM)terracore Wrote: There is no fully-automatic version of an AR-15 available to civilians… Mechanically, it isn't substantially different from a Ruger 10/22, which kids like myself used to buy…
Yes, I can make a Ruger 10/22 look like it’s Rambo, but that doesn’t make an automatic. It is fun to watch which journalists and politicians, and others, accurately but misleadingly to most people, use the phrase automatic-assault-LIKE, instead of blatantly calling it an assault rifle (like the SA report, and the thread’s title based on it) which is really a military rapid fire 1-3-full auto machine gun. Assault rifle is almost meaningless as used in the media, or by the fellow walking down the street. Probably many readers don’t make any distinction regardless of what phrase is used…
( It is more than some call semantics. We have “no child left behind”, “inflation reduction act”, “end of democracy”, “war on poverty”, “war on drugs”, etc. etc.)
In Hawaii, like elsewhere in the US, there are no legally available military rapid fire machine guns, often called assault rifles, as terracore points out well. As fast as you can pull the trigger until the clip is out, yes, but that is semi-automatic, like nearly all modern guns. (Bump stock capable even, but that is increasingly illegal.) Most cartel folks, and some gang bangers and mob folks certainly have military assault rifles, but they are illegal, except for government agencies…
Legalize, not decriminalize, drugs and most of these scumbags are on unemployment.
Cheers,
Kirt