AR-15: What This Iconic Gun Would Say if it Could Speak

By Jenn Jacques

Poor little AR-15. Such a hated and misunderstood tool.

American Thinker published a glorious monologue from the gun in black.

A raw, first person, er – first gun account of what it’s like to be the most vilified and misunderstood firearm in the world:

“Hi, my name is AR-15. Some of you know me, but many more of you know of me — through the media. But you may not know the real me.

I’m that cool, sleek-looking black gun you’ve seen profiled by the press. They put me in newspapers and on TV, showing my picture as if it’s a mug shot, even though I’ve never committed a crime.

The public knows my appearance well; people have seen my cousin and dead ringer, M-16, fired machine-gun style in war movies for decades. But, alas, I, AR-15 — the weapon available to the public — can only be fired semi-automatic. This means that every time you pull my trigger, one shot, and only one shot, is released.

So even if we accept the term “assault weapon,” that’s not me. To qualify, a gun must be capable of fully automatic fire (machine-gun style), and no such weapons are readily available to the public. So …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms