How Reddit Became a Gun Market—and Authorized Its Logo on Assault Rifles

Was there any actual point to all of that ranting? So a lot of Redditors (myself included) are pro-gun and like to exercise our 2A rights by owning and occasionally gasp shooting /gasp guns! Oh noes! FSM forbid that a civilian might own a "powerful" gun like an AR-15.

Never mind that, like all of the other articles written by paranoid anti-gun kooks, this article is sadly misinformed about the nature, capacity, and capabilities of various guns. An AR-15 is a civilian weapon, not capable of select-fire or fully-automatic fire, and is no more "powerful" than most popular semi-automatic hunting rifle. And in terms of ballistic power, the 5.56 NATO rounds are relative lightweights, being nearly equivalent to .223 Remington rounds, and with less ballistic power than a .308 Winchester, .30-06, .375 Ruger and a whole laundry-list of other rifle cartridges. There's no more reason to get all panicky and freaked-out over an AR-15 than any other gun. As far as that goes, you can kill someone with a single-shot lever-action .22LR. Sheesh.

Many, many redditors calling it clickbait. http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/1upfw8/mother_jones_at...

I understand the desire for an individual to purchase a firearm in the interest of protecting your family. However this still available comment on twitter seems like it is more about making a profit and circumventing what little regulation we have on the books;

"Listen, I'm not saying I want to see Sandy Hook Part II but another 20 or 30 dead kids would really dress out my balance sheet."

https://twitter.com/FirearmConcierg/status/41086858090578329...

Please someone who loves the 2nd amendment come up with a way to justify this disgusting comment.