Is the time right for a repeal of the 2nd amendment?

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I know I’m late to the party, but in what universe is a smoothbore musket more accurate than an AR-15?
 
Actually I’d have you give up your M14 and any other semi automatic weapons.
 
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I know I’m late to the party, but in what universe is a smoothbore musket more accurate than an AR-15?
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I did not intend to make it sound as if I thought a smoothbore musket is more accurate than an AR-15. But I will suggest that a rifled, long barreled rifle like a Civil War era Enfield Rife is, if both shooters are using iron sights. Now, an Enfield of that era was a cap-fired rifle, not a flintlock. But there wasn’t much difference in accuracy even so, just in the likelihood of the rifle firing.

I don’t claim to any great expertise with a Ky long rifle, but I know people who shoot them a lot, and they’ll favorably compare them to any modern rifle if the sights are the same and the distances are not too great.

A lot of it is what you’re used to. I can still hit much more accurately with the iron-sight .22 rifle I grew up with than any rifle even with a scope at 100 yards or less.
 
Ehh…I’m skeptical even of that, but even if so, the very marginal difference in accuracy doesn’t balance the vast difference in rate of fire.
 
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Yeah,

You could build a Quad AR-15 for anti-aircraft.

REALLY tick off the lefties.

Mags sticking out all over the place.
 
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