Feb
27
2010
BusinessWeek on the Modern Sporting Rifle (AR-15)
Posted by Admin (Mike) in Guns, tags: 15, AR, ar-15, AR15, article, business, BusinessWeek, hunting, rifle, soldiers, sporting, week
For generations, rifle models first used by soldiers have become profitable sellers in the domestic market. The 1903 bolt-action Springfield adopted by the U.S. Army in World War I begat the wooden-stock rifle carried by generations of deer hunters. The higher-capacity Garand issued to troops in World War II also spawned versions used to hunt big game.
Full Article at BusinessWeek – HERE
Hat Tip: SnowflakesInHell
It’s always good to see the AR-15 get some coverage that isn’t negative!
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‘The main difference between the military weapon and its civilian counterpart is that the Pentagon’s version has the capacity to fire bursts of bullets with a single pull of the trigger. The cosmetically similar MSR fires only one round with each trigger pull.
Some of the confusion over these rifles stems from the tendency of gun-control advocates to refer to all of them —fully automatic and semiautomatic—as “assault weapons.” ‘
He got it right! Perhaps there were two or three snowflakes in Hell!
Yea! It’s refreshing to see a journalist actually getting gun some related facts correct.