Article snippet: This is an important point for many reasons, not the least of which is the decades long contention that AR-15s and other commonly owned semiautomatic firearms are excluded from Second Amendment protections because the left has labeled them “weapons of war.” Suffice it to say, they are not “weapons of war.” Rather, they are semiautomatic rifles that fire one round with each pull of the trigger. On the hand, an M-16 and M4 are designed for warfare and each is equipped with a select fire switch that allows the gun to shoot in full-auto mode. This means the M-16 and M4 can shoot as many bullets as are in a magazine with one pull of the trigger. Regardless of these stark differences between AR-15s and M-16s/M4s, news commentators like Joe Scarborough and leftist politicians like Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke continue to describe AR-15s as “weapons of war.” And Scarborough–and others of his ilk–then go on to say the Second Amendment does not protect “weapons of war.” Hmm. The left has a problem. Namely, that “weapons of war” were civilian firearms when the Second Amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791. Keep in mind–another long-running leftist diatribe is that the Second Amendment only protects muskets because muskets were the firearms in common use when the Second Amendment was ratified. Well, guess what? Muskets were in common use for civilians and military alike. And when James Madison wrote Federalist 46, celebrating the fact the Americans possessed arms with... Link to the full article to read more