re: #294 Feline Fearless Leader

I did not know that someone needed a semi-automatic AR-15 clone to deal with varmits.

My brother-in-law living in Colorado had a rifle for dealing with coyotes, etc. Was a simple bolt action rifle that fires the same .223 (5.56mm) round as that rifle. Has a scope and it is perfectly functional for the necessary role. Odds are that if you miss with the first round the target is running very rapidly away from you and you are not going to hit it by tossing more lead downrange at it.

Sure. Now bolt action rifles are the best and most versatile hunting rifles out there. But they didn’t become popular till army exposure in WWI. Yet semiautomatic rifles did not have the same surge after WWII because bolt actions were cheaper and better.

Now the manufacturers push “modern sporting rifles ” based on the AR pattern as the replacement for the bolt actions that cost more to make and don’t wear out as fast. They need the market, lots of young porple are primed to think an AR is appropriate for hunting from video games movies and even endless tours in the military.

Banning any rifle with a removable magazine and that holds more than 10 rounds would be a great place to start.