{"id":468,"date":"2013-03-05T19:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-03-05T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:21:50","slug":"ar-versus-sporting-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/ar-versus-sporting-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"AR Versus Sporting Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em>This is guest post by <a title=\"John Doe Investigations\" href=\"https:\/\/johndoeinvestigations.com\/Services.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Doe Investigations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FACT<\/strong> or <strong>FICTION<\/strong>?\u00a0 With all the recent talk of new gun laws and more gun control there is a lot of information circulating: some of it is accurate, some of it is not.\u00a0 Here are some points of FACT and FICTION&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FACT<\/strong>:\u00a0 President Clinton enacted the Federal Assault Weapons Ban &amp; the Brady Act in late 1993 in response to the attempted assignation of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\u00a0 This ban limited the purchase of Sporting Rifles erroneously known as Assault Rifles, &#8220;ARs&#8221;.\u00a0 This type of weapon was not used in the assassination attempt.\u00a0 Note, neither type of weapon was used in the assignation attempt: the firearm used in the attempted assassination was a .22 revolver.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-469\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gun-300x85.jpg\" alt=\"gun\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FICTION<\/strong>:\u00a0 A Sporting Rifle is an Assault Rifle, &#8220;AR&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FACT<\/strong>:\u00a0 An Assault Rifle or &#8220;AR&#8221; by definition is a Select Fire Machine Gun such as an M-16.\u00a0 Weapons of this type are already regulated under the National Firearms Act or NFA.\u00a0 NFA laws prohibit the ownership of modern day (Post May 1986) AR&#8217;s by civilians.\u00a0 Sporting rifles are Semi-Automatic only; while they look very similar to their military counterparts they function as a single fire or one round at a time.\u00a0 Consumers are able to own fully automatic weapons that are registered with NFA made prior to May of 1986.\u00a0 Due to the limited supply and availability of these weapons they typically average well over $3,500 for pistol calibers and $10,000 for rifle calibers.\u00a0 In addition to the high cost of NFA weapons a consumer has to file paperwork with NFA and wait for approval (roughly 6 months currently) before they can take ownership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FACT<\/strong>:\u00a0 When the Assault Weapons Ban and Brady Act were originally written, they had a 10 year expiration.\u00a0 In 2003, George W. Bush was in office and elected not to renew it.\u00a0 Numerous studies have shown that Ban had no measurable impact on reducing gun violence.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is guest post by John Doe Investigations FACT or FICTION?\u00a0 With all the recent talk of new gun laws and more gun control there is a lot of information&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,5],"tags":[140,142,143],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AR Versus Sporting Rifle - The Gents Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/ar-versus-sporting-rifle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AR Versus Sporting Rifle - 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