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In reply to the discussion: I'm being honest here. What's the thing with [View all]MineralMan
(146,262 posts)It seemed to be a good sort of military firearm, although I have to admit that I liked the M-14 better. I never saw any combat, so I never used it in the field. I ended up being a Russian linguist, instead.
In civilian life, I have no use for such a firearm. I have a .30-06 deer rifle that is based on WWI technology, and a shotgun that is patterned after one with a patent date of 1912. Both work very well as civilian firearms. I bagged a number of deer with the first and some ducks and other birds with the other. The shotgun does home security duty now, and I've stopped hunting deer, so the deer rifle just stays in storage and is cleaned and serviced annually. I also have a 1911 Colt .45 semi-auto handgun, or at least a copy of that venerable pistol. It's in storage, too, most of the time, although I do have a CCW permit. I just don't have any reason to carry, really.
The AR15 isn't a firearm that I'd want to own, since I can't think of any use for it. Others' opinions differ about that, but I don't see that they're using theirs for its design purpose, either. Different strokes.