i keep thinking

i might like to get an AR for Target/Varmint work.

with the new 'bullet button' stuff going on here in the "golden" state, one can get an AR now, reasonably.

the AWB spells out clear characteristics that constitute being an "Assault Weapon" to be applied. most of the stone age legislators of the California state legislature, don't have the knowledge to know first hand what an "assault weapon" is; they react to THEIR emotions...NOT facts and statistics.

two of those characteristics are: no bayonet lug and no flash hider.

now, i ask you, how many folks out there use a bayonet? I'd dare say, not many at all. yet i was shocked and astonished to see a Mossberg shotgun on a display rack, for sale, in a Big 5 sporting goods store recently, with a bayonet "fixed"! the bayonet itself was an additional $100.00 if you wanted it.

it's also common to see SKS rifles with the permanently attached bayonets for sale here in sporting goods stores. yet it's illegal to have a bayonet lug on an AR?

i trained with an M1 garand in bayonet fighting and if given a choice of using it or an AR to bayonet fight with, I'd choose the M1.

flash hiders? i believe the average 'legislator' doesn't know what the function and intent of a flash hider is...

my personal opinion is that the paranoids in the state legislature need to come into the 21st century; THE AR IS HERE TO STAY...LIKE IT OR NOT.

they need to "get real". the AR is no more of a threat than any other firearm out there in the REAL world, NOT the la-la world of a California legislator...