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BBC looks at how the AR-15 went from 'banished' to 'America's national gun'

If President Joe Biden had his way, every American would surrender their AR-15 to the government ad buy a shotgun instead. As vice president, he often touted the shotgun, saying it was way easier to aim than an AR-15, and he told Field & Stream, “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” This is the same guy who says police officers should be trained to shoot a suspect in the leg.

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The shotgun is not “America’s national gun,” sadly. The BBC says that honor belongs to the AR-15, which “used to be banished to the back of gun shows.” Ryan Busse, senior advisor to Giffords Courage, says this is a great and important article.

Government-funded media outlet BBC News reports:

It wasn’t long ago that the idea of millions of civilians owning a military-style rifle was unthinkable even to industry insiders.

Ryan Busse was a top executive at a firearms company in the early 2000s. Back then, he said, AR-15s and other “tactical” military-style weapons were banished to the back halls of industry shows and only accessible to law enforcement and former military members.

“The rest of the industry wouldn’t let those things be displayed in the main, tasteful and respectable part of the show,” he said.

Rather than any one law, Mr Busse said that the industry’s decision to eschew tactical weapons was because there was a “social stigma” around them and leaders agreed that firearms should belong in the hands of the military and trained police officers.

“I’ve never owned one. To me, the guns have a very clear purpose. They are tactical weapons of war, and I wasn’t planning on embarking on a planned military offensive action,” he said.

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He was a top executive at a firearms company but never owned an AR-15 because of the social stigma, apparently.

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That’s sarcasm, by the way.

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A senior advisor to a gun control organization thinks the BBC’s take on the AR-15 is “great and important.” So we’ll take that as an admission that it’s completely biased.

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