This is referring to all the people who say I own this gun to protect against a tyrannical government. While I agree fighting a tyrannical government is noble Most of those people aren't serious about it and are just LARPing. If you are serious about fighting for your freedom then you'd know that fighting alone will get you nowhere. No revolution or civil war has ever been won by scattered armed individuals with no organization, you need to join a group to be effective.
But all the militias are full of right wing psychos
Yeah, but you won't be able to change their mind from the outside. Join one and try to educate them on true freedom from the billionaire capitalist class. Worst case scenario even if they don't respond you'll still be training and learning how to work in a group, and you can be a spy and learn their tactics and how to defeat them in the case of a civil war.
I'll just buy the gun now and join a group once shit starts going down
That's the wrong order, get organized and then buy weapons. Left wing organizations will be banned and forced underground long before guns are. There's a very high probability trump will ban armed left wing groups in the next couple years, him restricting gun purchases is far less likely. It's best to get in an organization and build trust before it goes underground because after they are banned they are rightfully more picky on who they let in for fear of informants.
I was in the US military for 20 years. The Air Force, specifically. We trained with the M16A2 rifle for years, then later upgraded to the M4 rifle. The AR-15 is the civilian variant of those rifles, so I bought one to train in my own personal time. Pretty much the only difference is the AR-15 doesn't have a burst mode, which shoots 3 rapid-fire rounds per trigger pull. That's illegal to own in the civilian sector.
The military had us train on the weapon only once every couple years, and then later, they decided to save money on ammo by only training us if/when we deployed. And training was a day-long course of breaking apart the weapon, reassembling it, then firing on the range and qualifying with targets. Hardly enough time to practice.
My wife also served, but she had very little experience with guns in general and was barely passing her qualifications. She's a small lady and had trouble holding up the large weapon. So I bought the AR-15 so we could practice at home. I even added a bull barrel to it, which adds 5lbs to the rifle, to help train her arm strength for the M4 qualifications.
We're both recently retired now, but we're living in Minnesota near the Twin Cities, so I'm glad to have my AR-15 readily available. I pray I never have to use it in defense, but it's an option if things go sideways in my home state. There are already civilians here defending their street corners with AR-15s on display, to deter ICE from patrolling the neighborhoods.
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