Gun-Maker Slammed for 'Children's Assault Rifles' Based on AR-15
"At first glance, this comes across as a grotesque joke," said one gun control advocate. "On second look, it's just grotesque."
Jessica Corbett
January 26, 2022
Gun control advocates on Wednesday sharply condemned an Illinois-based company for recently unveiling the JR-15, a long rifle inspired by the AR-15 but marketed for children.
Although it is under 2.5 pounds and 20% smaller than the standard version, the JR-15 "operates just like Mom and Dad's gun," WEE1 Tactical said in a statement. The weapon "functions like a modern sporting rifle," but its "lightweight and rugged polymer construction and ergonomics are geared towards children."
WEE1 Tactical launched the JR-15 earlier this month at an annual trade show sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which is based in Newtown, Connecticutwhere a gunman with an AR-15 murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
"The callousness of the National Shooting Sports Foundation to promote a children's version of the same type of assault rifle that was used in a horrific mass shooting of 20 first graders and six educators in our shared community is just the latest proof that the organization, and the gun manufacturers it represents, will do anything in pursuit of continued profits," Po Murray, chairwoman of the Newtown Action Alliance, said Wednesday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/26/gun-maker-slammed-childrens-assault-rifles-based-ar-15
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Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)mistake his parent's rifle for his.
I used a 22 semi-automatic long-rifle when I was a kid in Scouts. I sucked at it since a number of my peers in my troop had used a 22 caliber before, often often.
Seldom used any gun since then----that's what, 46 or 47 years?--and none for the last 33 years.
The rest is "oh, it looks scary." And perhaps magazine size.
Book. Cover.
ornotna
(10,800 posts)It's still grotesque. Marketing a military assault style rifle for children. Children.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)The second amendment is a virus.
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)AndyS
(14,559 posts)Other critics of the new rifle took aim at the gun-maker, which is also selling "swag" featuring cartoon skulls with baby pacifiersone with bows and pigtails, and another with a mohawk.
As Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC), put it: "At first glance, this comes across as a grotesque joke. On second look, it's just grotesque."
"That a gun-maker has embraced imagery of dead children to promote gun ownership by youth surreally illustrates how detached this industry is from the death and injury that result from its products, especially among the young," he added.
There is no limit to the depravity of the gun industry or the gunners who support it.
It doesn't have to be this way: resources.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)Children and teenagers kill each other enough without a real kid size AR-15.
70sEraVet
(3,495 posts)MN2theMax
(1,415 posts)This is disgusting. Training and equipping future mass murderers.
spanone
(135,830 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)niyad
(113,284 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Gee, wonder who these guys are targeting...
kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)VGNonly
(7,488 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)AndyS
(14,559 posts)I will be the first K&R and do my utmost to keep it visable.
This mentality is REAL for God's sake.
If not let me? Don't want to steal your brilliant find.
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)How do they even appear in public?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)NickB79
(19,236 posts)They also made .22 versions of the AK-47.
And like another person noted, the AR in the OP is a single shot unless you buy extra magazines. The Jagers used 10-rd magazines.