Posted by oldtanker on February 16, 2017 at 22:48:07 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Weapon for Equipment posted by JimS on February 15, 2017 at 09:38:38:
[quote="rockyridgefarm"](quoted from post at 09:49:27 02/16/17)
A weapon is any object that is designed for the purpose of inflicting harm to persons, objects, or systems. The AR-15 is designed for one purpose - to inflict damage to persons, so it is a weapon. A pocket knife is not designed to inflict damage to persons, objects, or systems. Therefore, it is not a weapon. It can be used as a weapon, but it is not defined as one. Please don't perpetuate the misinformation of the NRA.Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeActually the AR platform rifle was designed and sold as a sporting firearm starting in 1956. In 59 some AR15's were sold to another country as a military firearm. After it was modified to suit the US Army it was adopted in 1963 as the M16. So no, it wasn't designed to inflict "damage to persons". It was modified to do that from a sporting firearm.
Also as a side note, when the 2nd Amendment was written and ratified the Army was equipped with a French smooth bore musket with an accurate rage of 50-75 yards while a popular civilian firearm was the Pennsylvania Long Rifle with an accurate range of about 200 yards. Plus there was no bar to civilians owning cannons. Now I am not advocating allowing civilians owning modern cannons but our founding fathers clearly did not mind the civilian population having better weapons than the military. Fast forward to the civil war and the army was equipped with muzzle loading rifles but the lever action rifle had been in civilian hands more than 5 years. When Custer was defeated at the Little Big Horn he troops were armed with single shot breach loaders while the Indians had mostly level guns. The auto loading rifle was in civilian hands around 1905 yet the military did not adopt one until the late 1930s when they bought the M1 rifle.
Just because someone said the AR was designed as an assault rifle doesn't make it so. The AR15 of today lacks certain features like the ability to fire auto that defines an assault weapon.
Gee that means the US Military has been equipped with a sporting rifle modified to military standards sense 1963 through today.
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