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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rayvt 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Cerro Fabricated Products
Date: 06/16/25 2:52 PM
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"Today, it is estimated that there are over 20 million AR-15 rifles in the U.S., most of which have been made domestically in the past two decades."

How do we all feel about this (if true)?


I doubt it is true. The correct number is probably 4 or 5 times that.

Personally, I am not a fan of the AR-15.
Ok. Don't buy one. Simple.

Yes, they are fun to shoot.

I find that an SKS is more fun to shoot than an AR-15. AK-47 is equally as fun. All three are magnificent examples of engineering.

Clearly, they add to the growing gun violence problem in the USA, Mexico and elsewhere.

Clearly? Criminals would not do crimes if one particular rifle was not in existence?
Mexican cartels would be back to bow & arrows?
Good to know.

I wonder what Mexican cartels and the Mafia used before Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 in 1957.

Residents of England don't have AR-15s. How is there crime problem doing? Oh, that's right, they don't have a gun problem, they have a knife problem.

Actual gun crime statistics are that almost all gun-related crimes are done with a pistol not a rifle.

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