NOTICE

MANUAL OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNTERTERRORIST 145
ASSAULT rifles
When the assault weapons ban expired in
2004 an entire new cottage industry flourished
and we Americans can thank our lucky stars that
we live within this great nation of ours and can
finally access the best technology in which to
protect ourselves against our adversaries. Fullauto
rifles can be found, but herein is really no
need to pay such exorbitant prices.
With our adversaries consistently turning
towards the AK-47 (Author’s note: the vast
majority of AK’s that you see on the news or in the
papers are, in fact, much newer AKMs. The AKM
has a pronounced dimple in the receiver near
where the magazine is loaded. The AK-47
doesn’t 83 ), you’re going to need something
comparable. Enter the AR-15 clones that have
swarmed the market in recent years.
First let’s describe the ‘assault rifle’, a rather
ambiguous term that terrifies some and confuses
the rest. Assault rifles are not inherently more
dangerous than, say, hunting rifles and are quite
more durable than hunting rifles when used for
that sport. The Clinton-era gun ban rested on two
hallmark features – the multi-round magazines
and such things as bayonet mounts. The reduction
of a thirty round clip to a five round clip was
purely cosmetic; any determined criminal could do
as much damage with the five-round as with the
thirty-round. It would only mean that they would
have to spend an extra few seconds by changing