Natural Disasters and the AR-15
American Greatness,
by
Erik Root
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
9/8/2019 8:59:31 AM
As I was traveling from Jacksonville, Florida back home up the I-95, hundreds of electric power service vehicles from several companies were making their way south. Among those service vehicles were the ubiquitous Asplundh tree clearing trucks meshed in between the convoys. For people living on the East Coast, these were anxious days because as we traveled north, Hurricane Dorian was predicted to turn the direction we were headed, missing landfall in Florida, where all the emergency vehicles were headed.
While there may be power outages and other wind-caused damage from the storm, unpredictable storms like Dorian stretch the ability of government entities, including public utilities,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 9/8/2019 10:07:57 AM (No. 174504)
Excellent commentary on why we really do need AR type modern sporting rifles.
Violent thugs are a universal in the world, and the AR type modern sporting rifles (MSRs), so much more accurate than the pejorative 'assault rifles ', are thug repellents of the finest type.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 9/8/2019 10:15:20 AM (No. 174513)
The AR-15(actually the whole family of arms stemming from Gene Stoner) are an amazing advance in personal protection. Easy to shoot well, compact and light, and due to the standardization of the core parts, so inexpensive that ownership of one is well within the reach of most all citizens. it is the exact weapon that the founders had in mind when they spoke of the militia. A civilian with familiarity with an AR15 shares not only parts and ammunition compatibility with the military weaponry, but also familiarity with it's use, makes them a potent ally or enemy, depending on the actions of the government.
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bigfatslob 9/8/2019 10:36:53 AM (No. 174534)
Not a fan of the AR-15 style rifle. I fired one once in the Army for demonstration purposes and don't care for the cartridge in .223 caliber this was in 1968 it was the last time I ever touched one. I like .30 caliber weapons and Ruger makes fine rifle called the mini thirty which uses the AK-47 round not many people have heard of this that being said the left skips over many sporting arms that they would love to hate. It won't be long before my squirrel rifle will be classified 'an assault weapon' on squirrels you see it will never end. Don't give an inch because the socialist left wants everything from you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
saguni 9/8/2019 1:44:58 PM (No. 174715)
What the gun-grabbers can't admit or acknowledge: at the time of the War for Independence, and the Second Amendment was conceived, the colonist's flint lock "hunting rifle" was more accurate and reliable than the British Army's weapons.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 9/8/2019 2:27:28 PM (No. 174756)
#5, not exactly. Rifled hunting weapons WERE more FAR accurate, no question, than the smooth bored muskets, which was the "assault weapon" of the day. Muskets were optimized for rapid reloading and carried a fearsome, very effective weapon...the bayonet, especially effective in close quarters because of the slowness of reloading. Yes, they were relatively inaccurate, but great masses of musketry were deadly,
with quantity of fire more important than precision, when it was either/or, both could not be had until the
Civil War era.
All weapons in the Revolutionary War used black powder, which leaves a hard residue inside the barrel at each firing. A musket with it's loosely fitted ball, can be loaded 100 times in a row without cleaning. The rifle, with a tight cloth patch fitting between the ball and the rifling grooves which spun the ball for accuracy, could not be reloaded as fast due to the patch, AND you MIGHT get two shots (usually only one) before you needed to wipe the bore with two wet patches and one dry patch to clean the hard residue. Without cleaning, it was impossible to ram the tightly fitted patched ball down the dirty barrel. So, when we fought with our hunting weapons (rifles), we shot once, and ran away 100 or 200 yds to hide while we swabbed the barrel wet and dry, then reloaded with a tightly patched ball, and then re-entered the battle stealthily, and fired another single accurate shot. Also, if charged by British troops with fixed bayonets...since rifles had no bayonets and were too lightly built to survive a bayonet fight if a bayonet was somehow lashed on, our militia broke and ran. The British soon learned this, and a bayonet charge was quickly forthcoming if they saw that they faced militiamen with rifles.
As soon as we could get muskets, rapid firing and with bayonets, all our regular troops used them, as they were the best weapons overall.
We did keep a small percentage of riflemen on the periphery of a battle, and we shot at their officers, with great results because of our accuracy, IF the riflemen were protected by a company of musket men. They considered killing officers intentionally to be unfair. We considered it great tactics.
Rifles had a small place, but the real battlefield weapon was still the musket, rapid loading, shoot all day,
and extremely robustly constructed to work as a bayonet fighting weapon, too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/8/2019 2:43:09 PM (No. 174765)
The same liberals that think the 2nd amendment didn't anticipate AR style weapons and therefore, should be banned, have no complaints about the 1st amendment and pornography. Something tells me. the founding fathers NEVER thought about that when they wrote the 1st.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 9/8/2019 4:19:34 PM (No. 174832)
Great post #6!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 9/8/2019 5:01:41 PM (No. 174849)
Thank you, #8. As a child, I learned of our smart Minutemen hiding behind fences and shooting the stupid British marching in lines. As a child, I never understood why the Brits could be so dumb. Later I learned of the weapons technology.
How we fought was largely due to the weapons in use, not because one side was smart and the other
was stupid. I never considered this smart/dumb to be particularly propaganda as much as just a lack of understanding of the technology of the weapons of that long ago time.
Friends have told me that this is interesting new knowledge, so I share it when it seems appropriate to the conversation.
There were a number of Revolutionary War battles where a few American riflemen killed British generals and turned the tide of that battle, and perhaps others due to the loss of skilled leaders.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Videodrone 9/8/2019 6:46:38 PM (No. 174909)
#3 - a Mini-30 on squirrels? You must have some big squirrels!
Unfortunately my matched set of scoped & bi-podded Mini-14 & Mini-30 in Cabellas "evil looking" black pistol gripped aftermarket stocks along with several "standard capacity" magazines were tragically lost in a boating accident off Point Area a few years ago...
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