In what may be the most tone-death fundraiser in recent memory, a youth baseball league in Illinois is auctioning off an AR-15 assault rifle and a 30-round magazine as a fundraiser, and they’re openly admitting that an assault rifle was chosen to help get more attention for the league...
Some gun freak told me the AR-15, which James Holmes used in the recent Aurora Batman shooting, is functionally identical to a regular hunting rifle. But the Wikipedia says they're used in the military! Which is true?
History has proven that hunters and sportsmen are using rifles for hunting that were once used by the militaries of the past. I have seen people hunting deer with a scoped Mauser 98k, surplus Lee-Enfield .303, 1903 Springfields, Mosin Nagants, and even scoped SKS rifles. Most bolt actions of...