re: #8 dragonath

My apologies for any misunderstanding. No straw man intended. This phrase= “I’m against perpetuating this market at any age.” is pretty broad. Made me think you object to the publications at any age. I respect your actual meaning as corrected.

Do you see the shooting sports as an adults only sport? It’s a long held tradition of course is that it’s a family sport. The young hunt in most any culture that has hunting. Maybe not with guns of course.

A young teen can not own an AR or a handgun. But a parent can buy one for the kids safety training and use at the range or hunting. He might put it under the tree with an understanding registration / transfer and true legal ownership has to wait for the law. That’s how it works. TP has the outrage dialed up a bit here. I have taught lot of people how to shoot, some kids as young as 13 or so. I don’t get the outrage at bringing a young responsible kid into the shooting sports.

I went looking around about the .223 and hunting. The states are literally & figuratively all over the map. (yes pun intended) It’s a small game cartridge IMO, from the specs, though I don’t hunt. It’s not hard to find people that make a good argument to allow it for deer at reasonable range. There is lot’s of hunting besides deer. I think you had just said hunting. So I was not thinking about deer and larger. I was thinking from small game up to whatever upper size limit might be appropriate.

.223 is significantly less powerful than the real military round for the AR-15/M4 series, the 5.56mm of the same shape and caliber but more pressure, enough to possibly burst a .223 gun.

So what is your argument about .223 hunting, or target shooting? The rifle range where I serve on the BOD allows shooting from 25 to 800 yards. Some choose to target shoot way the heck out there and that means we see some really powerful stuff being used for a sport. Long range rifle target shooting. Unless you dislike guns, it’s a lot of fun.