Anti-Gun Article Outlines Why AR-15 Isn’t For Defense…And Gets It Wrong

By Tom Knighton

Earlier this week, I came across an article all about why the AR-15 wasn’t for home defense. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t written by someone who understands firearms. It was written by someone who is apparently terrified by the idea of private citizens having an effective, lightweight means of defense, and her arguments proved it.

So, I thought I’d take a minute and show you just how wrong this whole mess is. It’s an older article, but I have little doubt it’s fueling more than a few discussions, even today.

1. The AR-15 Was Designed For Military Use

In 1957, the United States Army asked Armalite to produce a lighter-weight rifle capable of piercing “both sides of a standard Army helmet at 500 meters,” according to the AR-15 website. After extensive research on the effectiveness of weapons in war and how those weapons injured soldiers, the AR-15 was created to be an efficient rifle that could cause mass amounts of damage quickly. In the 1960s, the AR-15 became known as the M-16.

First, the fact that the weapon was developed for military use is irrelevant. GPS was developed for military use too, but no one …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms