Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Pistol grips on long guns, and rifle crime in general. [View all]TheWraith
(24,331 posts)That's like saying that a Hummer H3 is a military vehicle, because it looks a little like a HUMMVW. No military on Earth issues it's troops semi-auto rifles as standard equipment. The similarity is more superficial than anything.
Yes, they derive some parts of their designs from military weapons, because said military weapons are well engineered and designed to be highly reliable. There's little reason to reinvent the wheel--and there never has been, since those "non-threatening" wooden stock and bolt-action rifles are ALSO derived from military weapons. Virtually every civilian bolt-action rifle these days is a knockoff to a greater or lesser extent of the Mauser 98K, which was in it's day as much a cutting-edge killing machine as any rifle manufactured today. Civilian guns have always been derived from military weapons, going back to the origin of the firearm.