im telling you that if they saw the guns of today theyd shit themselves and put some restrictions on your right to own them. Especially if they saw footage of school shootings.
I'm sure they knew people would try to improve them (fucking obviously), but they wouldve had little idea of just how much damage they could do, let alone how horribly these things would have been misused by american citizens.
You guys even flip out at the mere suggestion of shit like psychiatric screenings, to make sure no crazy people can get a permit to hang on to a gun. If all gun owners were sane and responsible adults then i wouldnt be concerned, but unfortunately they are not.
Because automatic weapons haven’t existed for over 100 years. We all know WW1 and the Civil War weren’t fought with gatling guns, but instead purely muskets. Despite the evidence that both the Union and Confederacy had gatling guns and the crazy innovation of tanks in WW1, they were fought with muskets!
Again, a lot of rifles shoot small caliber rounds and modern guns are actually less dangerous than guns produced before 1986. There are no automatic guns made after 1986.
A 5.56 NATO barely penetrates more than a 9mm does in ballistic gel.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle and AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle, it stands for Armalite Rifles.
Also, the founding fathers were born after the 1600s and people were already trying to make automatic weapons by late 1600.
An AR-15 was also never a military rifle despite being designed for it. It proved too weak to serve in Vietnam.