AR-15 inventor's family: "Meant to be a military weapon." "He'd have been horrified and sickened."
the family of the inventor of the AR-15 rifle says that the gun was not intended for civilian use but for military purposes.
“Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47,” the Stoner family told NBC News. “He died long before any mass shootings occurred. But, we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events.”
https://time.com/4371452/orlando-shooting-ar-15-military-civilian-family/
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Same thing, except no happy switch on receiver. They are out there, but not as plentiful as the AR. Probably too heavy for the perps to carry comfortably. 
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There has never been any real doubt about the AR being an assault rifle. It has been marketed as such from the beginning. It was only after the general public began to recognize it for the threat it is that the NRA launched a major marketing campaign to change the name from Assault Weapon to Popular Sporting Rifle.
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103. Do tell.
"Since the NRA discovered that after years of marketing the AR as an assault weapon it was getting a bad reputation among the general public they started a concentrated effort to re-badge the gun as a "popular sporting rifle". This is a totally and completely new and fictional kind of gun."
How long had they been "marketing the AR as an assault weapon" before 1963, when this ad appeared?
And why was the NRA doing Colt's marketing for them? Do they actually create advertising campaigns for manufacturers, or do they just run the ads for free in the American Rifleman?
Here's the weapon that was used in the deadliest mass killing to date in the United States:
...a pot laughs at a supposed kettle. YMMV 
If you were referring to David Koreash and Branch Davidians, they used assault weapons to kill and injure federal LEO - before they burned themselves down.
Lawn Darts were banned after one death.
The AR-15 death toll is in the thousands and counting....
Have a wonderful night!
Unfortunately for any discussion purposes, the Sandy Hook parents are just as ignorant about guns and their laws as you are. That makes having any real discussion rather difficult.
If you believe there is something special about AR-15 style rifles that causes them to need extra restrictions that other rifles do not need, please let us know what it is.