Let's pretend... (cliff notes at end)
You're a 16 year old GIRL with uncommonly good taste in rifles and you are looking to purchase (with your own money) your first deer rifle. The rifle of your choosing happens to be a 6.8 SPC AR15. Of course the laws being what they are forbid you to do this so your parents would have to buy it for you from the FFL.
You don't want a boring bolt gun which brings you no joy and spending several hundred dollars on a rifle to use for one week of the year seems even more silly. The AR on the other hand is always a good time as it is alot of fun to plink with economically while keeping your shoulder bruise free. A 5.56 upper is on your want list. You've decided you'll have AR or no rifle at all.
You have a friend that has a 5.56 AR15 with "a bunch of crap" attached to it including an EOTECH. Your mother and step-dad inspect this rifle and your mother is particularly impressed with the the lightweight, pointy carbine. She loves the EOTECH. The collapsible stock is a great idea. It feels good in her hands. Your step-dad isn't so sure. He raises no objections initially but is put off by the fact you need a permit to purchase to buy such a gun. Why? It's a "military style assault weapon" according to state law. Of course it's not actually an assault rifle because it lacks select-fire capability your friend explains. Up until this point he doesn't have a problem with it. When the 'A' word is brough up everything changes. This man is also a gun owner, though all of them are plain jane, cheaply scoped beat up rusted hunting rifles which he stores in the uninsulated (no heat or A/C) garage during the off season.
You are proficient in the operation of an AR15 and can shoot it with reasonable skill as well as being able to field strip and clean it.
A couple of days later you are asking if you can get the rifle but suddenly it's become an object of evil. Yeah, that 'A' word rifle. The step-dad is dead set against it. "...it leads to violent activities, like school shootings". (Guns kill people!!
) She says she has never heard of that and won't be shooting anybody. "If a cop sees it, it has a bad reputation and they would think badly of it".
Personally if I was a cop and discovered a 6.8 AR in a young girls trunk I would be extremely impressed, but that's just me. Apparently the step-dad thinks a cop would find a small blonde high school age girl a threat. Maybe Barney Fife would.
Now mom takes step-dad's side. "He knows alot about guns". Anybody who knows a damn thing about guns doesn't keep 'e, out in a garage with no climate control! They know that EBR's don't make level-headed polite girls into baby killers. Anybody who knows alot about guns knows what a flash supressor looks like and what it does. Not this guy. What a crock.
She was told to wait until she's old enough to purchase it for herself unless she can convince them otherwise. She needs help with the convincing part. $200 complete lower and a ~$500 upper.
Cliff Notes: High school girl wants 6.8 AR for a deer rifle and fun gun but vile gun abusing step-dad thinks evil black rifles turn people into school shooters and scare cops.
Thank You For Reading and Sorry it Got So Long
You're a 16 year old GIRL with uncommonly good taste in rifles and you are looking to purchase (with your own money) your first deer rifle. The rifle of your choosing happens to be a 6.8 SPC AR15. Of course the laws being what they are forbid you to do this so your parents would have to buy it for you from the FFL.
You don't want a boring bolt gun which brings you no joy and spending several hundred dollars on a rifle to use for one week of the year seems even more silly. The AR on the other hand is always a good time as it is alot of fun to plink with economically while keeping your shoulder bruise free. A 5.56 upper is on your want list. You've decided you'll have AR or no rifle at all.
You have a friend that has a 5.56 AR15 with "a bunch of crap" attached to it including an EOTECH. Your mother and step-dad inspect this rifle and your mother is particularly impressed with the the lightweight, pointy carbine. She loves the EOTECH. The collapsible stock is a great idea. It feels good in her hands. Your step-dad isn't so sure. He raises no objections initially but is put off by the fact you need a permit to purchase to buy such a gun. Why? It's a "military style assault weapon" according to state law. Of course it's not actually an assault rifle because it lacks select-fire capability your friend explains. Up until this point he doesn't have a problem with it. When the 'A' word is brough up everything changes. This man is also a gun owner, though all of them are plain jane, cheaply scoped beat up rusted hunting rifles which he stores in the uninsulated (no heat or A/C) garage during the off season.
You are proficient in the operation of an AR15 and can shoot it with reasonable skill as well as being able to field strip and clean it.
A couple of days later you are asking if you can get the rifle but suddenly it's become an object of evil. Yeah, that 'A' word rifle. The step-dad is dead set against it. "...it leads to violent activities, like school shootings". (Guns kill people!!
) She says she has never heard of that and won't be shooting anybody. "If a cop sees it, it has a bad reputation and they would think badly of it". Personally if I was a cop and discovered a 6.8 AR in a young girls trunk I would be extremely impressed, but that's just me. Apparently the step-dad thinks a cop would find a small blonde high school age girl a threat. Maybe Barney Fife would.
Now mom takes step-dad's side. "He knows alot about guns". Anybody who knows a damn thing about guns doesn't keep 'e, out in a garage with no climate control! They know that EBR's don't make level-headed polite girls into baby killers. Anybody who knows alot about guns knows what a flash supressor looks like and what it does. Not this guy. What a crock.
She was told to wait until she's old enough to purchase it for herself unless she can convince them otherwise. She needs help with the convincing part. $200 complete lower and a ~$500 upper.
Cliff Notes: High school girl wants 6.8 AR for a deer rifle and fun gun but vile gun abusing step-dad thinks evil black rifles turn people into school shooters and scare cops.
Thank You For Reading and Sorry it Got So Long
