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Something private citizens should have? If it was designed for combat operations, why do they belong on the streets?Not only was is watered down by teh gun lobby, they also saw to it that statistical evidence of gun violence was suppressed. Data collected by the DoJ, the BATF, the CDC and the NIH was forbidden to be released tot eh public by locking up any funding for their release.
And I negged you for the ignorance crack. If assault weapons were designed to throw as much lead as quickly as possible, why were they designed with semi-automatic firing systems and large capacity magazines? Calling me ignorant and ignoring these facts is more than ironic. It demonstrates a lack of capacity to reason on your part.
You're the one repeating statements that are not true.
The M-16 was designed to be lightweight, field serviceable, and suitable for combat operations in medium range environments. Plenty of other weapons fire more deadly bullets at higher rates of speed.
If you don't want to be called ignorant, do some research before you post on a topic of which you are not educated.
Where did you get the idea that the M-16 was designed "to kill as many people as possible?" Since you object to being called ignorant, where did you receive your education on the M-16 and firearms in general?
And the fully automatic function is rarely used and troops are discouraged from engaging it. The weapon, like most fully automatic weapons, tends to drift upward when the fully automatic function is engaged, wasting ammunition and making the weapon far less accurate..
Because they are excellent for personal defense.
Where did you receive your education on firearms?