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The AR-15 Rifle Is Not A Machine Gun – Critical Mas

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Massad Ayoob delves into the ongoing debate about the Second Amendment and the AR-15 platform. Mas addresses the “weapon of war” vs. “modern sporting rifle” argument. He highlights the AR-15’s semi-automatic nature. Mas stresses the need for clear language to reach the 80% of open-minded individuals in the middle of this debate. He also discusses the historical context of the Second Amendment, emphasizing individual self-defense as a fundamental human right. Join us in this ongoing discussion on the Wilson Combat Channel as we work to preserve our rights to bear arms.

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Critical Mas(s) with Massad Ayoob is a show that provides expert analysis over a wide range of contemporaneous topics related to civilian and law enforcement self-defense, the use of force, and second amendment issues, provided by a renowned and established author with a career spanning decades in training law enforcement officers and the public at large, who is frequently called upon to provide expert witness testimony.

ABOUT MASSAD AYOOB:
Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement columnist for AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. He is the author of some twenty books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including “In the Gravest Extreme” and “Deadly Force,” widely considered to be authoritative texts on the topic of the use of lethal force.

The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob was the first person to earn the title of Five Gun Master in the International Defensive Pistol Association. He is the current President of the Second Amendment Foundation. He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught
for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.

Mas has received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979, and served as a fully sworn and empowered, part-time police officer for 43 years, mostly at supervisor rank. Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981 and served as its director until 2009, and now trains through Massad Ayoob Group. He has
appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. Ayoob served for two
years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appeared in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).

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41 COMMENTS

  1. when the 2nd amendment was penned, the weapons held in the hands of private citizens were far superior to the small arms of the military. most were hand made by craftsmen. accuracy at any distance was far superior. as they utilized rifling and caliber size for their intended purposes. hunting and self defense.
    military were mass produced in larger caliber solely for the purpose of causing as much damage to whatever it hit. smothered in larger calibers. they didn't need accuracy as armies stood shoulder to shoulder in battle formation.
    now we're supposed to only be allowed something far more inferior.

  2. we are quibbling about the definitions. They do not care about the words they use…. they purposely use bombastic verbiage to distract us in their argument.
    You can explain how they are wrong until you are blue in the face.

    These people want you helpless… and they will do or say anything to convince you to give up your rights.
    The want you helpless and fearful…
    Helpless and fearful people are easy to control.
    The Government has no business telling me what weapons I may use. The Government can only punish me if I use those weapons to purposely harm other citizens…. UNJUSTLY.

  3. It drives me crazy when gun rights advocates fall into the stupid trap of arguing that an AR 15 isn’t a “weapon of war”… All guns are weapons of war!! It’s a meaningless phrase lol

  4. Thank you, Mr. Ayoob.
    Any weapon is a "military" weapon. Especially in the realm of weapons bearable by an individual, there is no logical distinction between a military weapon and a non- military weapon. At need, a soldier will use a bow and arrow, a spear, a rock, hands, feet, elbows, and teeth. All are military weapons. They are also mighty fine weapons for people who are not soldiers, and it is absurd to argue that they (or semi-automatic firearms) should be banned because they are "weapons of war."

  5. The fact that its semi auto makes it more dangerous in the hands of someone who wants to do harm. If accuracy isn't a concern you can quickly learn to bump the trigger without the use of any aftermarket parts, and if accuracy is of concern, the shooter would be better off in semi.

  6. When your referring to your fellow Americans as "the other side" it's pretty clear that you've lost sight of what makes us such a great nation . They're not the other side , they are our fellow Americans , the uninformed weirdos ? Maybe so but no less our fellow Americans. We would all do well to remember there are no "other sides " there's only "we the people "

  7. I bought binary triggers, but any semi-auto can be bumped, with or without a bump stock. The 2nd Amendment protects machine guns, they didn't studder like Biden, they said shall not infring. A child just learning the word, can understand it well enough.

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