re: #156 Dark_Falcon

I must respectfully disagree on the bolded portion. The AR-15is a far more adaptable and versatile platform than the M1 carbine. Short barrel rifles are a felony unless registered, it is true, but it is also a fact that an AR can take barrels short enough to hide the gun under a winter coat, whereas the M1 cannot accept different barrel lengths without major modification. Nor can the carbine accept adaptation to fire many different calibers, which the AR-15 certainly can. .45 ACP from an M1 Carbine? No way! From an AR-15? Yes, way.

DF, from the perspective of both being small lightweight firearms that were designed to fill similar niches, I would say there is little difference. Both can be made in full auto versions and both can have similar sized magazine capacities. The AR is more flexible in it’s configuration but the majority of those bits fall under what I was refering to as cosmetic.

Both still remain similar sized rifles with one that looks bad to modern folks and one that does not - but only because of how they look not because of any qualitative difference in the two firearms.

I firmly believe that modifying the NFA is a far better way of controlling the abuse of these firearms than an AWB based on cosmetics.