re: Educate me on the AR-15

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One of my friends said (and I’m quoting her not me) that if you hunt with it it maims the animal so much you can’t eat it?

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I’m sure she thinks it is only available in .223/5.56, so that is a retarded statement.

I hunt with several different guns, but one is a 7 mag. At 1,000 yards my 7 mag carries almost the same energy as the 223 does at the muzzle. So being shot with it at 1,000 yards is nearly the same as being shot at say 1 yard by a .223, energy wise. It doesn’t main the animal enough to ruin all the meat, and it’s not even the most powerful hunting cartridge available.

I also hunt with a .223, and actually prefer it because it DOESN’T ruin meat. Plus it’s cheap to shoot.

This is a .223 bullet and a .22 bullet for comparison:



Now, the .223 has a lot more powder behind it. But this round is on the small end of rifle rounds.

This is the .223 vs. a 30-06 (common hunting rifle round)

That's a well made little slide show.....

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Any gun can be used to kill people.

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Right

But certainly some are much more effective

And in cases of self defense you would want them to be much more effective

So here’s a few different cartridges I had in my office. Tell me which one is scarier and then I’ll tell you which one is a .223.

Personally, I'd rather own the lower one, but I'm kinda old school that way...

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One of my friends said (and I’m quoting her not me) that if you hunt with it it maims the animal so much you can’t eat it? That cannot possibly be true, any more so than any other kind of rifle???

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Not at all, it has similar Feet Per Sec as many other hunting rifles with a smaller bullet. A subsonic bullet does more damage.

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Once they get our AR's they'll come for our AR Knives

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My new play:

AR TOWN

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I had a conversation this morning with 2 friends of mine who gave me the “nobody needs” this type of gun.

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MILLIONS of these rifles have been sold. At this point the AR platform is like the iphone of guns. There are so many accessories and modifications for this platform that one can customize their firearm however they like for their shooting style and needs. By default, they have become the modern day musket.

Only a minuscule percentage of them have been used for unlawful purposes.

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Is there some characteristic about this type of gun that makes it any more dangerous than any other type of rifle? If so. What is that specifically?

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Some good responses here. As pointed out, the AR-15 doesn't function any differently than any other semi-automatic rifle you can think of.

One possible difference people are somewhat glossing over is ease of reload. Take two popular semi-auto hunting rifles-The Remington 742 and the Browning BAR. Pretty sure the largest aftermarket mags you'll find are 10 round. ARs and some other military type rifles have multiple choices of mag size and are much easier to replace than the way the more traditional hunting rifles. If I were going to attack a large hear of pigs, for example, I'd rather have an AR-15 than either the Remington or the Browning. The Benelli R1 also seems to be limited to 10.