New AR-15 Platform!!!!

[JoeWeber 2,936]

Ya, buddy, with the New XM5 Assault Rifle and the new XM157 Fire Control System you'll be able to shoot around any pesky farmers and right into that prairie dog with every shot! Just imagine, sport fans, you'll be able to responsibly exercise your second amendment rights from the safety of a tall building over one-half mile away. What could possibly go wrong? 

[brenthutch 444]

Has nothing to do with an AR-15, unless AR-15 is leftie speak for “scary looking gun I know nothing about”

[normiss 892]

We should start naming them after schools. Or maybe ask the ER doctors to name them based on the combat wounds on the children being sacrificed.

Yay. America.

[JoeWeber 2,936]

Just now, brenthutch said:

Has nothing to do with an AR-15, unless AR-15 is leftie speak for “scary looking gun I know nothing about”

It is, actually, and for damn good reasons. Do you think your average school shooter went with the AR-15 because of the ejection system or the 5.56 round?  Nope, not a chance. And when they get a MCX Spear in .277 Fury or 6.5 Creedmoor it won't be owing to their own determination that one action or cartridge is the better, it'll be because too many gun nuts who should know better have mythologized the damn thing in popular gun magazines. 

[brenthutch 444]

8 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

It is, actually, and for damn good reasons. Do you think your average school shooter went with the AR-15 because of the ejection system or the 5.56 round?  

School shooters? Perhaps, as for the other several million of us, it is because they are accurate, lightweight, modular, ergonomic, inexpensive (can be) easy to shoot and enjoy huge aftermarket support. 

[JoeWeber 2,936]

Just now, brenthutch said:

School shooters? Perhaps, as for the other several million of us, it is because they are accurate, lightweight, modular, ergonomic, inexpensive (can be) easy to shoot and enjoy huge aftermarket support. 

Whoosh.

[kleggo 145]

interesting article in Sundays NYT (from an avid hunter) who postulates that some / many AR15 owners do so for "lifestyle" reasons and might take the place of other hobbies like darkroom photography or wrenching on cars.

I fired m16's a few times in USMC decades ago. I don't need to relive that lifestyle.

[billvon 3,108]

2 hours ago, normiss said:

We should start naming them after schools.

I have a simple solution.  Allow any new/cool military weapon to be sold to civilians - but require a picture of Dylan Mulvaney to be engraved on the barrel.

Problem solved.

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

9 minutes ago, billvon said:

I have a simple solution.  Allow any new/cool military weapon to be sold to civilians - but require a picture of Dylan Mulvaney to be engraved on the barrel.

Problem solved.

You can DuraCoat right over it.

[billvon 3,108]

4 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

You can DuraCoat right over it.

Yeah, but then your buddies will know that you have a trannie on your barrel, and the shame will be crushing.

[lippy 918]

2 hours ago, Slim King said:

Russia has a new 4 gauge shotgun out for short range protection although the long range sniper capabilities of the XM5 might be worth it unless you want to kick in another 2 grand and get a 50.

Thanks for keeping us up to date on the goings on in the motherland, Comrade.