Newsflash the AR-15 style rifles are NOT military firearms. A military rifle in use by the United States is the M16. It can be switched from semi-automatic to fire in short bursts. The AR-15 rifles cannot do this. They remain semi-automatic rifles firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled. Law-abiding owners of these "civilian rifles," do use these rifles for hunting and they have been used successfully against home-invasions done by multiple individuals at once.
The ignorant layperson needs to understand why the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment, and it wasn't for hunting. They saw the value of private citizens forming militias to defend their states, which aided in our winning the war against the strongest military in the 1700's.
Thus, they said that the right of the people to "keep and bear arms" was paramount to aiding in the defense of their states from a tyrannical government, whether tyrannical government is foreign or domestic.
The current feeble-minded president said that the civilian couldn't win a war against our government, as the government has rockets, missiles, tanks, artillery, fighter jets and bombers, if the government were to go up against the populace, apparently he is unaware that we were involved in a war for 20 years against a determined population armed only with AK-47's, AK-74's, RPG's and Improvised Explosive Devices, while dressed in the equivalent of pajamas, sandals and cloth headwear......and...... they won. They just wore the US military with all of its fancy military might, down.