What type of gun was used in the Chicago area shooting on July 4th?

I love how idiots (especially those who never served) like to use the term "military grade" as if it implies nefarious intent or something... 🙄

a good portion of modern technology & medical science was born out of military necessity, should be therefore ban them?

There are few (if any) rifle actions or cartridges in modern circulation that were specifically designed for & use by only military's, The 5.56 is just a higher pressure version of .223 Remington, itself based on .222 Remington which is a civilian designed bench rest round.

All actions, optics, accessories are rooted in civilian market; firearm & ammo manufacturers simply couldn't survive without civilian ownership as they constitute the majority of their business...

what "military grade" really means is that it's something designed and built with the cheapest parts available that can be mass produced and be idiot proof to even the most stubborn marine; In absolutely no way does it imply superior quality or "extra deadliness"...

we were lucky to get 1 moa groups out of our military issue m16's/m4's; My AR15 is much better than that, and capable of sub moa grouping (3/4" inch or less is the industry standard these days); the military doesn't care about precision as long as it goes bang and flies in the general direction of the enemy...

many of us were accessorizing our rifles with civilian market scopes & attachments long before the military ever adopted them; The first vertical foregrip (that the democrats are so scared of and somehow think makes a rifle more deadly) literally started out as the end of a wooden broom handle duct taped to forward grip. The military issue slings were complete garbage & only improved after civilian market slings crept into military usage. The overpriced & overhyped ACOG sight literally started out as a pair of binoculars split in half and attached to a hunting rifle...

I am firmly in favor of gun laws and controls but still support the right to bear arms.

But long before Kamala Harris, at least one news article described a .308 rifle as a "military rifle."

Back in my long-ago deer hunting days, I carried a very pretty .308 I got for my 29th birthday built by my late father-in-law, who was a gunsmith. It was more or less considered a "girl's gun," and held six shells.

Yes, it could and did kill deer and could certainly have killed people.

The trick has to be keeping guns out of the hands of the arguably insane and out of the hands of youngsters whose brains have not fully developed.

I never pointed my .308 at a human.

Assault weapon is a funny phrase.
What else do you do with weapons?

I beat the shit out of a pensioner on the 7th hole with my 7-iron..

… now it’s an assault 7-iron… 🤔🤷‍♂️

The AR-15 is not an assault rifle per the US army definition, and there is no agreed upon definition for "military grade." These are catch phrases used by gun grabbing hoplophobes to scare the public. The technology behind a semi-automatic firearms is more than 130 years old and dates back to at least 1891. If the problem with mass shootings was the gun, the epidemic would have manifested itself long before Columbine (1999).

Blue Cities will call the police if a kid eats his peanut butter sandwich into the shape of a gun, but won't prosecute a murder .

Assault peeler. Aka AR15

The ultimate agenda is to disarm the people, so tyranny can come blazing in. And they have MILLIONS of useful idiots just clamoring to do their dirtiest work.

Zero respect for them

Leftist drug INDUCED, trans demon , murders six with an AR......crickets! IT, was the victim! 🙄

“Mostly peaceful”?

You can't even buy a cap gun in the uk

It was just revealed that it was a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle.