Posted: 12/27/2012 7:24:22 PM EDT
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Wouldn't it seem that with all the new calibers available in the AR platform, 6.8, 6.5, .300 blackout and the number of people hunting with it compared to 1994 that its going to be harder to say it doesn't have a sporting purpose? In 94 I can't remember any that were not .223 or 5.56 today there are a large number. Seems like this should be a bigger problem for "them" this time around.
the legislative history suggests that the term "sporting purposes" refers to the traditional sports of target shooting, trap and skeet shooting, and hunting, the statute itself provides no criteria beyond the "generally recognized" language of section 925(d)(3). S. Rep. No. 1097, 90th Cong. 2d Sess. 80, 1968 U.S. Code Cong. and Admin. News 2167. It's pretty easy to show that the ar15 meets 2 of these requirements today. Constitutional arguments aside. |