Second Amendment Foundation and Brady Campaign files Amicus Curiae in Embody v Ward 11-5963 6th Cir

[SteveW]

5. You're wrong. "AK-47 IS an arm in common use for...lawful purposes"...

The AK-47 and also the AR-15 platforms are indeed in common use today for traditional lawful purposes.

Sales of this class of weapon are approaching 20,000,000, making it the most popular center-fire rifle type in the U.S. in terms of sales. The AK has been and is in use as a hunting weapon; using a .30 caliber cartridge, with appropriate expansion characteristics, it makes a good short-range deer rifle on a par with the old .30-30. The AR-15, once only configured in the small .223 caliber, are now chambered in .308, .260, and other deer-sized cartridges. (Dan, you can purchase a Remington AR-15 platformed rifle at Academy.)
This, to say nothing of its utility as a target rifle (cheap ammunition in the original chamberings, and low recoil), and as a suitable home defense weapon.

Thugs and HyperPunks don't have much use for them, however: Less than 3% of gun-homicides in the U.S. are committed using a rifle, of which the ARs and AKs, are but one type.

This information is well-known, and I am surprised you did not catch it some years ago.