Look twinkle toes.
Per your referenced article.

I did not write this answer to it
but agree 100%. Other than it's mis-knowmer
of the M-16 being a Machine Gun.
Now , pay attention please.

This article is a bunch of garbage. First of all, Stoner's original design was trash and a failure. He was bought out by a larger gun company who then came in and redesigned it. That version was a piece of junk too but was a full on machine gun (M16) used in Vietnam. The AR-15 was not Stoner's design and he never once said that he would be horrified at it being the nation's most popular sporting rifle. Also, the AR-15 by legal definition is NOT an assault rifle. An assault rifle by legal definition has a selector that allows it to go fully automatic. An AR-15 does not do full auto. Also the AR-15 is a weak round (5.56) compared to the AK-47 (7.62) not sure what advantage having a weaker round with less stopping power is. It is slightly easier to handle but not by a large amount.

You got this ding dong.
Stick you what you know.

By the way. What do you Know ?

Rightwingnuts and gun nuts post page after page of utter nonsense about what is an "assault rifle" and an "assault gun", and how this are simply "sporting rifles" that are completely innocent in the hands of those with"god given rights" to own them.

So here is what the family of the inventor of the AR 15 has to say about the weapon in question.

Never intended for civilian use, only for the military to give American troops an advantage over commie weapons.

Thanks to the idiots of the nra, the gun nut lobby, and the never ending greed of the manufacturers, the AR 15 is the favorite tool of the mass shooters.

Truth will set you free, but the truth hurts like a bitch when gun nuts get caught in their lies.



http://www.yahoo.com/news/ar-15-inventor-never-intended-000000114.html

M-16 original design was a selective fire weapon capable of fully automatic fire- forget the round count per minute. subsequent generations the full auto was removed in favor of a 3 shot burst ( more controll less wasted ammo). which also is not available in the civilian version. The Ar 15 is civilian version not capable of either full auto or 3 shot bursts ( without extensive modification) . the original design was not a failure but a combination of very tight tolerances and the type of propellant used early on and the lack of a forward assist on the bolt led to difficulties in the field as well as some poor maintenance practices. The problems could have been solved very quickly but politics/politicians got in the way. I not going into that fiasco. To say the AR platform was a failure is incorrect - in no way does it compare to the ak series which have very different design parameters other than being designed for miltiary use and that they go bang. If I remember correctly the 223 version is an off shoot of the original 308 Stoner design (aka AR 10) as the miltary was looking for something lighter and less costly to produce and a higher round count magazine- detachable, than the venerable M-1 on which the m14 is based. Any way the M16 is effective to 300 yards the 7.62x39 isn't any better ( actually less) and generally less accurate as well. the Ak's are dang cheap to produce though.