AR-15s

[Beest]

I read the article, I just see wants and not needs.
In any picture of hunting I have seen, they are not shooting assault rifles.
I understand they are a bad choice for home defense because of over penetration, you miss the target and my shoot someone through the walls in the next room or outside.
Also any gun owner I know does not own one gun they reconfigure for different purposes, they own several, each suited for it's task.

I came to a realization recently after many years of playing paintball, that what a lot of people like about it is the shooting, pulling the trigger , feeling the action, seeing the splat, actually shooting people in a game was only an excuse to do that, many are happy to blast away on a range.

If you want to own an AR15 because it's fun to shoot and you like buying matching accessories for it (they call it tacticool in paintball, fairly useless accessories that just look cool) don't try and justify it as a need, people play Golf, but they don't need to.