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Miami Police Missing Dozens Of Department's AR-15s
bearingarms.com
Certainly not weapons of warSo now they're just "semi-automatic rifles ", not "assault rifles"?
Well, to be fair, they *are* weapons. Especially the ones purchased by the police.Author needs to get his crap together...
"Now, the hype around the AR-15 is ridiculous, to be sure, but they’re still weapons."
And this gem...
"But hey, we can trust the police with AR-15s, even if we’re supposedly untrustworthy with such weapons"
They are firearms - not weapons. Stop feeding the beast.
Is a hatchet or a hammer a weapon?
Well, to be fair, they *are* weapons. Especially the ones purchased by the police.
You could argue that the guy building a race gun for competition isn't building a weapon, but the police specifically *are* using these as weapons.
Sure, they are also tools. All weapons are tools. A tool is just an object that allows you to do something better than you could by hand.
Most tools can be used as weapons too. If you stab someone with a screwdriver, it's a weapon. You could even be prosecuted for assault with a deadly weapon for doing so (I guess that makes that screwdriver an assault weapon TBH).