Not all rifles that look like the plinger are exactly the same weapon. One holds 5 or 6 rounds while the other holds clips with up to approx. 30 rounds. Both can fire as quickly as you can pull the trigger.
The one in the picture that I posted is precisely the same weapon: a Ruger 10-22 Sporter; semi-automatic, ten round capacity. All they did was take the barrel, receiver, and trigger assembly out of the wooden stock and drop them into the polymer stock with some minor adjustment for the mag and the groovy little add-ons. (shrug) Won't fire any faster than it did the other way. As for 30-round magazines (
NOT clips---check your nomenclature, clips are a totally different animal) see below.
I think there is also a psychological component to using an AR or AK because of the way it looks, not for everyone but for many. What do militia members, prefer and why? Is it because they look like a military-style weapon?
Any militia I've ever had any contact with, the members usually bring whatever weapons they have and are confident with. Are there a lot of ARs? Sure there are. An AR is the same basic framework as an M-16, and most militia members are military veterans who have trained with and are familiar with M-16s.
The people who wrote the Second Amendment lived in the time when single-shot flintlocks were the most prevalent weapon. They had no conception of modern weaponry, including AR and AK weapons.
The First Amendment was written at the same time as the Second. They had no concept of electronic media such as computers and the internet, so why are you communicating on this forum? Shouldn't you be writing on parchment with a quill pen, sealing the envelope with candle wax, and sending the letter by horse-drawn delivery?
Besides, by the time the Second Amendment was ratified, a rotary machine gun that could throw out 63 rounds in seven minutes was already in use, and had been for upwards of 70 years:
Puckle gun - Wikipedia
BTW, have you read the first part of the 2nd Amendment? "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." People running around taking the law into their own hands violates this clause: 1) they're not a well-regulated militia and 2) they don't have the security of the country as their goal.
Yes, I have. Have
you reviewed the court cases relating to the amendment? The courts have consistently ruled that the term "well-regulated militia" refers to the general population, i.e., the entire American People. And what gives you the idea that civilian militia doesn't have the security of this country as their goal? You think that if the Chinese parachuted
en masse into the American heartland tomorrow, that everyone holding a weapon would just sit down and say, "Golly, I can't kill any Communist Chinese invaders, because it's not my job to keep the country secure. I'll just wait here for the police and the army to do the job"? Stop swallowing the media line that militias are gangs of criminals who want to overthrow the government. If anything, militias want to restrict the government from overstepping its bounds, which is exactly why the Second Amendment was put into place to begin with.
On the evening of October 1, 2017,
Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from
Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the
Route 91 Harvest music festival on the
Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m.
PDT, he fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his 32nd floor suites in the
Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 60 people
[a] and wounding 411, with the ensuing panic bringing the injury total to 867. About an hour later, Paddock was found dead in his room from a
self-inflicted gunshot wound. His
motive remains officially undetermined.
His arsenal of weapons, associated equipment and ammunition included fourteen
AR-15 rifles (all of which were equipped with
bump stocks and twelve of which had 100-round
magazines), eight
AR-10-type rifles, a
bolt-action rifle, and a
revolver.
[20] A bump stock modifies a semi-automatic weapon so that it can shoot in rapid succession, mimicking automatic fire.
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I don't think we're commenting on "cosmetics". Even the NRA supported the ban of bump stocks.
Non sequitur. The weapons in question can't throw out lead any faster than any other semi-automatic weapon, but if you have 24 fully-loaded weapons, of
course you're going to be able to discharge more rounds. We're not talking about the capacity or the capability of the weapon, but
how many weapons the perp had on hand. How many people are going to walk into a sports arena with 24 weapons? The guy wouldn't even be able to move.
