My AR 15 IS NOT AN ASSAULT RIFLE

in JMM articles / by Jan Morgan / on December 19, 2012 at 11:35 am

News Anchors, Reporters, and Commentators, over the past few days have spread the epidemic of stupid with their language and gun talk that clearly demonstrates most of them have scant knowledge on the subject of firearms.
I have listened to news people, who are PAID TO DELIVER FACTUAL INFORMATION TO THEIR VIEWERS, consistently refer to the AR 15 as a “HEAVY WEAPON… AN ASSAULT RIFLE”… An AUTOMATIC RIFLE… A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.. Bill O’Reilly even questioned how Nancy Lanza could have legally acquired such a heavy weapon in a state with such strict gun control laws.

It is one thing to not have knowledge on a given subject yet earnestly seek it. That is commendable.
It is another to act and speak on that subject as if you are knowledgable, using wrong terminology with the intent to sensationalize or push a personal agenda.

My AR is not an assault rifle.
It is not an assault weapon.
It will never be used to criminally assault anyone.
My AR will only be used for defensive and sporting purposes.
It is simply a modern musket.

In addition, the fact that I go to the gun range on a regular basis, does not make me an American of questionable character. The fact that I am a gun enthusiast and may legally own multiple guns/rifles does not make me a criminal or someone who should be closely watched by the government.

90 million gun owners with over 300 million guns KILLED NO ONE LAST YEAR.

Owning an AR 15 is a legal right. Owning an AR 15 does not make me a dangerous gun fanatic any more than owning a Corvette over the usual less expensive average sports car makes someone a car dangerous car fanatic.

I am not ashamed… I am proud to say I own a Bushmaster AR 15.
To all the businesses who are pulling them from their shelves, I say, SHAME ON YOU for buckling to public pressure. The Founders would be so proud that you bravely stood your ground for the 2nd Amendment. You will never get my business again.

To all the Americans who are rushing to the stores to buy the AR and ammo before both are no longer available, I say, smart move. The public hysteria will most certainly lead to a ban on these amazing rifles… at least until the next mass shooting with a revolver, knife, or some other weapon. Then there will be a ban on those. (sigh)

Back to the irresponsible news anchors:
If these news commentators are going to talk about firearms and expect their positions to be taken seriously, they should at least become semi-educated about rifles or keep their mouths shut.

Words like “assault”, “heavy weapon”, “military style”, in describing semi-automatic guns and rifles in relation to the recent mass shooting, are either used intentionally by news anchors to sensationalize or it is a clear display of ignorance on their part.

About the author: Jan Morgan

Jan is an Associated Press Award Winning Veteran investigative television journalist and nationally recognized 2nd Amendment Advocate/ Media personality. Her Conservative voice has generated a following of over 350 thousand friends and subscribers on her Facebook blog pages. Read more ...

Read more articles by Jan Morgan.

Posting Policy

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity, all caps, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain a courteous and useful public environment where we can engage in reasonable discourse. Read more.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001095390648 Dustin Shadle

Bill o’rielly should know, at very least, that an AR 15 is not a “heavy weapon”. Didn’t he claim to be a marine? I feel that bill has gone to the left completely. May he get a warm welcome when the horns sound.
- Woods Dweller
  
  I never liked Bill Ever….
Cynyster

My Thoughts…
I reject the notion that most Americans are either to stupid or to irresponsible to own a firearm.

I reject the notion that our government is more responsible than I am.

I reject the notion that I must “Compromise” my safety due to the negligence or malfeasance of others.

I reject the notion that the police or government employees deserve better than I.

I reject the notion that restricting or banning any firearm makes me safer.

Up is not down.
Wrong is not right.

“Shall not infringe” means you will not hedge, limit, restrict, regulate, or discourage my God given right to

KEEP (store in my home in my car on or in my property) &
BEAR (Carry, hold, transport)

ARMS (pistols, Rifles, Shotguns, Lever action, single action, double
action, pump action, Semi automatic, Fully automatic, Belt fed)

The Government is NOT better than me, and should not have privileges that I do not enjoy.

Those that want to ban guns.. Look at what happened to other countries that
banned guns and looks at the millions of lives lost that it cost!
- http://twitter.com/bigal64 bigal64
  
  I think they are starting to go after the words “Well Regulated” … Our government needs a commission to understand the 2nd Amendment (45 words) but not to pass a 2200 page Obamacare….
James

I own a Remington 742 semi-auto 0.30-06. It holds 4 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber (5 total). Back when Columbine happened, there were some ignorant politicians that were calling my hunting rifle a watered down assault rifle. All I could do was watch the tv with utter amazment as these so called “educated” men and women spouted such ignorance. I was 22 when I bought that rifle, and I still own it. Will iter shoot up a school, theater, or mall? Never! Will it continue to help me put food on my table during deer season? Oh hell yes!

My question still remains is when are the mental hospitals going to open back up so that the mentally ill can be placed there under strict supervision instead of getting into their parents gun cabinets and shooting up the whole town?
- http://janmorganmedia.com/ Jan Morgan
  
  thanks for sharing that story with us James
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=554877352 Steve Huber
  
  I’m very familiar with your rifle as several of my friends own them. Your rifle is a popular hunting rifle and after market companies made 10 round magazines for the 742 and the updated 7400.
  What I want to know is this? Why is it that your rifle is considered a hunting rifle but my AR-15 that I use for coyotes and deer is considered an “assault rifle?”
  I’m not slamming you James, but I know for a fact that your .30-06 is far more powerful than my .223, yet my rifle is going to possibly be banned and yours will be fine to own!
  This sucks…
  - Mathchopper
    
    Wierder things than this happen when you hafta deal with Democrap political insanity.
sanity

Yes it is, it was designed for the military…there is no other purpose then shoot people, whether you choose to only shoot them when they are coming after you, or when you are going after them is your call, but the gun is an assault rifle in every sense of the word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR_15
- mort_f
  
  Yes, every gun was originally ‘designed for the military’. Add the blunderbus to your list. But so was the turbojet engine, the 707, the intgrated solid state circuit as well. One can get even more in depth, think of the aluminum alloy used for your pots and pans. Note that an AR-15, as sold in the civilian market, is incapable of automatic fire which the military requires because the majority of soldiers cannot hit the side of a barn with aimed fire.
- tim
  
  Moron prog, EVERY gun type made and sold today to civilians has at one time been used by the military, but NONE of them including the AR-15 are assault rifles. Assault rifles are full auto capable, which means they can fire a full magazine of bullets with one pull of the trigger in a few seconds. Assault rifles have been banned in the USA for general sale since 1934. Wikipedia “assault rifle” before illustrating your extreme ignorance.
- tetons9
  
  sanity, you have not chosen the correct name. It should be insanity! You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. i think the name for that is ignorance.
- http://www.facebook.com/dick.baugh.3 Dick Baugh
  
  No, not really. “Assault” is an action work, ascribed to human beings. You wouldn’t use the word to describe what one animal might to to another. Assault requires intelligence. A gun, of any sort, is an inanimate object and has no brain or intelligence, and is incapable of “assault”. It’s a logical fallacy. . . look it up! It’s not about the AR 15. . . it’s about the lack of respect for the lives of others that is being fostered in America.
- Rcorley38
  
  So is a 12 guage shotgun, or a 22 long rifle if you choose to use them as such.
- Scott Worne
  
  Moron.
AR15 owner

Oh, sanity. You’re quoting Wikipedia? Genius. It must be the truth…
Neil Tarasoff

I enjoy this publication, Jan!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Barber/100001402321271 Michael Barber

Most of those running their mouths are so scared of guns they wouldn’t touch one much less know the difference from one to another Jan you’re right as usual and I know this some sites are saying that they no longer offer clips for them any more.
USAF04

Well said. I’ve just about given up on O’Reilly after his latest comments. Just read that Cheaper Than Dirt is no longer selling/shipping bulk ammo. As for “assault weapons”: My GreatX2 Grandfather’s .45X70; My Great Grandfather’s .30X40 Krag; My Grandfather’s .30 Enfield; My Father’s M1A1 were all considered to be “assault” weapons. Any item used to attack a single person or large group by definition is an “assault” weapon. Thanks Jan for spreading the truth.
mwarmack

When is the news media going to be held accountable for there errors in reporting ? They should not be allowed to hide behind ” the rush to get the story out”. If you do not know the facts do not report on it. I for one have had enough of this style of reporting.
tim

Nothing new here, the media lies about most everything, another good example is illegal aliens, the media doesn’t even use the term illegal alien, instead they are now “immigrants”. All these media lies are how Traitor in Chief Obama got re-elected.
http://www.facebook.com/lee.dutra Lee Dutra

I couldn’t have said it better Jan. I am sick of all this misreporting and ignorant news people.
http://www.facebook.com/paul.porter.7739 Paul Porter

You go Girl I am backing you up all the way and the same goes to my AR (Armalite Arms)
I think I got the last Lower AR in Ct today. All Dealers were out and I mean OUT. I did know of one that was close until this morning and was having a sale do I called 15 min before the opened and to my surprise had one lower AR receiver in stock so I snagged it. YES!
You rock girl and if you are ever in CT … Lets go to the range.
tim

I own an M-25 with G2 stock and several other weapons but not an AR-15. All this talk about wanting to ban them has me looking to buy one.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gillar/1204195673 Mark Gillar
  
  Good luck. Most of the gun stores have sold out thanks to our president. Even the ammunition for them is now harder to find.
  - tim
    
    Sort of my point, Obama is the best gun salesman ever!
tenndoug911

Unfortunately a madman that uses a gun to kill several people gets the national spotlight for weeks and the attention of every imbecilic politician trying to look like a champion of the people. The citizen who uses his gun to stop a violent criminal in a situation that may have escalated into a mass shooting is never recognized for his valor . No victims to see, no story to sensationalize . The lack of a high body count does not hold the media or the public’s interest and besides it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative anyway. England took action several years ago banning most firearms. now they have bombings by radicals instead. nice trade, huh.
dupper89

heres the problem though. iam not trying to piss in your wheaties and i own a couple guns myself but the ar 15 ALMOST fits the discription of an assult rifle. it must be a shoulder fired weapon, it must have an intermediate-power cartridge (ie 5.56mm/.223 remington), ammo must be supplied by a detachable magazine, it should have a firing range of at least 1000 feet, and it should be selective fire. you can modify an ar 15 to be selective fire.now this is the general term for an assault rifle not our governments.theres is more strict. ar15′s are bad ass but the question is do we really need them? would i own one hell yea! but iam more of a lever action man myself.
- tim
  
  You can illegally modify lots of guns to be “select fire”, such as an auto loading shotgun, are they assault rifles also? Select fire is a waste of ammo unless someone with a machine gun is shooting at you.
- Rcorley38
  
  Great that you are a lever man, however do not try to take away my right for an AR which is what I am.
- Scott Worne
  
  Once they take away semi-auto’s they will be coming for your lever actions. Get your head out of the sand.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gillar/1204195673 Mark Gillar

Obama planned to take away our guns during his second term all along. If it hadn’t been this tragedy, it would have been another one.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the killer was brainwashed by liberals looking for a way to give the anti-gun movement momentum.

For those who might laugh at this, consider the Rosa Parks “back of the bus” incident. While I’m glad such poor treatment of blacks is no longer allowed,

the Parks incident was a staged event. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rosa_parks_naacp_pawn/
Birdman53

This was a very good article, Jan. But sadly, as Ron White would say,”you can’t fix stupid”. These people will never try to understand the difference in weapons, because they don’t want to. To them, guns are evil. It was amazing that on the same day as the massacre in CT, a man in China went onto a school and stabbed 22 children. Guns are banned in China, yet mass murder still happens. And the only place I saw this news was on Facebook. I didn’t even see it on Fox. It’s just so sad.
- USAFVET
  
  I heard it on Fox, and saw it on several internet reports. In Fact the one about the stabbings in China was in a couple of my newsletters the day following the shooting in CT.
ImListening

Spot On
Walker

To me, an owner of several guns, we need to look at clips capacity, not the gun. Nobody needs 30 rounds in a clip, except law enforcement and the military.
- Steve j
  
  It’s not a bill of “needs”, and this type of aquiescing to mob hysteria woul be pointless. 3 10 rounders add about 1 second of pause between volleys.
  Especially in an ar type, straight pull mag release. Have you ever shot one? Have you ever seen anything so ergonomically easy?
  Besides, that would be the tip of the slippery slope.
  For confirmation of that one needs look no further than California. They fell for this and were promptly “bait and switched”. And on that matter you can just forget about anything being “grandfathered” if they know you have it they will be taking it.
- tim
  
  The Second Amendment was written so civilians can protect themselves from the military, which means we should have the same small arms capability they have.
- Rcorley38
  
  Why not?
- Scott Worne
  
  Walker, someone with your ignorant way of thinking neither deserves to own a gun and should not own a gun. First, they are called magazines, not clips. Who are you to say that no one needs to own anything to do with guns? You are obviously clueless about the Second Amendment and firearms in general. It is morons like you that are destroying this country.
Chinner08

It’s refreshing to hear common sense from a media personality. Thanks for your courage to speak out on this!
CyclingFoodmanPA

Wow, nothing better than a beautiful lady with a weapon and knows how to use it. Finally got my wife shooting last year at 53 years old. I also got my 10 year old daughter shooting. Gotta take care of my ladies!
donttreadonme

sooo sexy

assault weapon ? what assault weapon?
chris

The power of the sword, say the minority…, is in the hands of
Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the
sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to
sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed
to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous
and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it
feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own
bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and
every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.
The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the
federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always
remain, in the hands of the people.

Tench Coxe

The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

The second amendment necessitates that the people be armed equal to the military to; overthrow tyranny in government and deter invasion. They will shout and they will pout and yes some of your beloved GOP and Dem lawmakers will back stab you and vote for disarmament. Disarming us of our semi automatic military clone (modern musket) rifles IS disarming us and there may come a time when people are forced to make the hard decision to stand up to the legislators and their goon squads who would seek to render you defenseless.

Make all the quips you want about tanks, drones, missiles, and machine guns they all require operators. I would even say that Obama doesn’t command the moral authority among the enforcers to order them to turn their weapons on us. I actually hope obama tries to go all out with confiscation by executive order, maybe then it would light the lazy tinders of protest and disobedience (peaceful and otherwise) that we so desperately need. If they could have taken the guns from us don’t you think they would have already, I mean when has something as paltry as the law stopped any of our so called “leaders”? You don’t have to gear up to fight but standing up and say, “I will not comply, period” will do more than lobbing rounds at some jackbooted thug, but then again it may come to that if we become totally disenfranchised.

Weapons owners as a group might not agree on everything, but always remember that we are the majority in this country no matter what talking heads on the “mainstream” might have you believe.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a
day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and
pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove
a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery
Thomas Jefferson.
http://www.facebook.com/benny.bennett1 Benny Bennett

I’m not a fan of AR, but that doesn’t make them ‘bad’. It means they’re a machine, built and activated by the human hand and mind, which was itself created by the hand of God.. It’s a conglomeration of metal, plastic, whatever else is to be found. The goal of the LIberal on this is to demonize both people, and machines. Even though that little machine is ‘fearsome’ because of the way LIberals brand them as evil, I’ve never seen a gun kill anything. At all, period.I HAVE seen people killed by the projectile which issues forth from the muzzle. I have seen things happen because a HUMAN finger pressed the trigger of said weapon. What the Liberals of America are trying to do, is disarm the citizens, so they people of their choice, like Hugo Chavez, Mexicos’s President, Hamas, Al-Queda,, Muslim Brotherhood, all these guys that want to rule the world by killing, beheading anybody who doesn’t look or think like them. In short, all sane people everywhere. Barry-get your head on right, or it might get removed when you’re Camel Jockies come through. Maybe you could get a machine gun issued to you? For you own personal use. But if you use it for just target shoots, watch out for some of your overzealous ‘ites’. When they say no guns, they are, stupidly, say ALL guns. Of course, we all know that when the guns are ripped from our dead hands, that will be the last freedom left to the United States of America. Remember, save one for yourself! Liberals are worse at torture, but can still do some damage. Oh, yeah-Viva WinRemSavSmiWestT/V, and all our gun makers-MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY, BLESSED NEW YEARS!!!
Joe

Jan I agree with you 110%. Only the weak minded zombies can.t see this. Thanks for an awesome article.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Wasdin/1070356490 Mike Wasdin

I can’t think of any reason I need to own my AR-15 (1) assault rifle. I
don’t pretend to need it for self defense. I also own several handguns.
Any of my handguns would be adequate to allow me an opportunity to
defend myself or another person from virtually any aggression by another
person. Indeed, I could have easily halted any of the recent gun based
rampages by any of those deranged lunatics with just one of my handguns.
I wish I had been there.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/victor7.1.1.html
JimR

I am a new follower of your articles. I have looked up several and have found all of them very informative and well written. Thanks for the great work

« Previous Article

My AR 15 IS NOT AN ASSAULT RIFLE

About the author: Jan Morgan

Be An Insider!

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Liberty Alliance Headlines

Like us on Facebook

About Jan

Contributors

Popular Posts

Search This Site

Support The Cause

Socialize With Jan