So Homes used an assualt rifle? Really?

Minor correction to the OP:

An assault rifle in Military parlance is a weapon with a selector switch that allows it to fire either semi auto or full auto these days the current variant of the M-16 also allows a three round bursts.

Other corrections: The current SAW fires the same ammo as an M-16 and the AR15 It wouldn't take much effort to convert a SAW magazine to work with either one because of the similar ammo. That is the primary reason the SAW replaced the M-60 at the squad level.

Other more serious issues:

Ninety per cent of the ammunition expended in the US is expended knocking holes in paper targets, or raking pie plates, clay pigeons. There are far more competiton shooters than there are hunters in fact the shooting sports are an Olympic event. To then state that the only purpose of a gun is to kill someone or something is as silly a way to anounce ones ignorance as any.

The most egregious bit of nonsense was the statement that anything you can't hunt with should be illegal as if somehow that would limit things. This is another demostrations of one's ignorance. I've seen people hunting rabbits with everything from a sawed off shotgun to a .22 pistol and most everything in between. By the way anyone under the impression that a bullet that can kill a moose or a Grizzly Bear won't kill as readily a human being is just truly ignorant. Further I would no more use a AR-15 to hunt bear than I'd try to jump to the moon from top of the Empire State Building. An Ar-15 is not much more than a souped up .22.

 

Also needs to fire an intermediate cartridge. The FN FAL has a selector switch but since it doesn't fire an intermediate cartridge it's a selective fire battle rifle instead.

 

A challenge, then...... find one over-the-counter carbine/rifle that can be fitted up with a 100 rd magazine (not 2 bananas taped together)

 

You may be technically correct, but is ridiculous to not put AR-15's in the same category, especially when you picture one with a large (30 round?) magazine. Realistically, any magazine larger than 10 rounds should be outlawed as it makes these kinds of mass shootings far too easy.

 

You may as well call pistols with more than 10 rounds Assault Rifles then.

 

Took me about 15 minutes carl and thats mostly because I'm old and slow. Check out DS arms.

 

nice work, and I stand corrected, or at least better informed.........too bad they don't make one for my 10/22

 

OK fine, what's the problem?

I don't get why people can't see the immaturity of gun fatuations when if people are obsessed with fire or explosives we consider them mentally troubled.

 

DS arms might... They've got one for a .308. Though cranking that one off from your sporterize FNFAL could do a hell of a lot of damage to your shoulder even in four round bursts

 

Hmm...well, considering that my uncle's HUNTING rifle is, far and away, more powerful than 99.9% of guns in civilian hands...sure! No problem. It's a huge double-barreled rifle that fires a .577 Nitro round. It will go through even a rifle-rated Kevlar vest like cardboard, even with soft-nosed lead rounds.

 

.458 might work for that, or a .500 Buhmiller. Perhaps a nice .577Nitro?

 

I don't get why leftist who are scared to death of guns think people who aren't are immature...

 

So your hobbies are great, and other people's are immature or signs of mental illness.

 

Wow. He killed and wounded all those people with his bare hands?

 

hmmmmm, trawled through all of the news and articles posted here, as well as on-line.... Nope. I can honestly say he did NOT use his bare hands. He used common everyday firearms, not some high-powered sniper rifle or fully automatic firearm.
So, what is your point?
Being a wiseazz doesnt contribute to this issue at all......
This is the first time I've used the Dislike button, uh, I think...lol

 

Re-read the op or move on.

Next

 

Vest penetration isn't even neccisary. Lol. That ought to shatter some ribs by impact alone. Lol

 

Plus there's the sissyboy explanation.Mayor Bloomberg as both an effete and a jew
probably never owned as much as a BB gun as a kid.Therefore he's totally clueless
about firearms and their use.Plus little pansy like Bloomberg,physically like
Barbara Boxer have Armed bodyguards at their disposal 24/7.
I say take away Bloombergs bodyguards for a full week and see how tough his
rhetoric is.

 

Meta I'll go you one better:

Phobia: a morbid unreasoned fear of something. It is widely recognized as a mental illness. Describes about 80% of the anti firearms crowd out there.

 

Then all weapons are assault weapons? Is that your point?

 

Please try to think outside of the apparently very strict definition of assault rifle.

I'm not even talking about the weapon. I'm talking about magazines that hold 100 rounds.

 

....it is either an assault rifle or not. The magazine does not make the firearm. If you are familiar with firearms, and have fired a semi-automatic rifle or carbine, you know it doesn't take very long to change out empties for full. That kid could have very well had banana-clipped 2 50's together w/duct tape and still had 100 rounds. What difference, at that point, would have made?
Even if there were no 100 rd clips, he still would have adapted for the event.
Ergo, the magazine does not make the event and is irrelevent.