Assault Weapons Anyone? Sales are Booming!

by Jack

They are flying off the shelf as fast as dealers can stock them! I suppose this is over the fear of a return to the assault weapons ban that didn’t help anything, except to drive up the cost of used [assault] weapons aka semi-auto rifles.

If I were not a gun person, and I’m not interested in hunting, yet I still wanted one a great looking assault rifle of the kind that drives liberals wild… I would consider owning a genuine Colt brand AR15 or M4 version in .22 cal.

This is the kind you can buy at Big 5 for about $400-450 on sale. They hold their value too, the ammo is dirt cheap and they are a lot of fun for just plinking at the range.

They look exactly like their larger cal. counterpart, only they will never be banned because they’re a .22 cal long rifle. Decent shooting, easy to care for and won’t bust the budget. You can also put a scope on them. They look really scary too! Freaks out the liberals. lol

I’ve built several so-called assault rifle’s (legal in CA) and it was not a job for the amateur gun builder – so I don’t recommend this for everyone. It requires some very precise bending of the lower receiver. A mistake here and it’s all over, same goes for the head space clearance (between the bolt and the chambered round).

If one has the tools and the skill, well, then its fun and it’s cheap…otherwise it’s a pain in the pah-too-too!

In .223 as a straight up, off the shelf assault rifle, Colt, Armalite, Springfield are all top brands and will hold their value. There’s many models to choose from, and a nice place to browse is…

http://www.gunbroker.com/Springfield-Armory-Firearms/Browse.aspx?Keywords=Springfield

I also like browsing at Model One.

A popular new/used firearms site is GunsAmerica.

These sites will give you a pretty good idea of what’s out there and pricing.

The following might be helpful to our non-gun readers curious about “assault weapons”, it’s from Outdoor Life: “The debate is moot. Regardless of what you think or how you feel about using semi-automatic guns for hunting, autoloaders and AR-style rifles are becoming more common in camps and virtually every major manufacturer is producing these guns in calibers heavy enough to drop deer, hogs and bears. Not to mention the fact that they’re a blast on the range.

But what’s the real difference between an AR and a semi-automatic rifle? It’s seminal, and aesthetic. ARs were initially designed by ArmaLite Inc. — hence the AR designation — as civilian versions of military rifles, while the other semi-autos in this review were developed first and foremost as hunting or competitive shooting firearms. However, as ARs continue to grow in popularity as hunting rifles and semi-auto hunting rifle makers continue to borrow features from the AR world (synthetic stocks, detachable magazines) trying to separate the types of guns on a philosophical level is an exercise in futility. Both rifles fire a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled and they both automatically eject the spent cartridge and chamber in a new one. But from a technical standpoint, the two types of guns work off of a different platform and generally look different.”