Gun Control & RKBA

icon: You made the original assertion, you prove it. And your opinion of their suitability is irrelevant

Observe readers the sleight of hand employed by icon, ducking the question by making it seem I had reneged.
I was not contending you icon had to prove my assertion, I was contending you prove YOUR OWN ASSERTION, duh.
Which was when you wrote this:

icon: .. numerous writers and sources have nearly unanimously proclaimed the very opposite to be true.

Prove this by citing 'numerous writers & sources' who proclaim that ar15s are in common use. They are not. They are not used frequently in defensive gun uses, they are not used in any positive manner daily to outweigh their illegal or illicit shootings or potential at mass shootings. They may be used in an innocuous fashion to target shoot, but that is by a tiny fraction of gun owners (less than 5%, likely less than 1% imo).
Cars are in common use. Handguns are in common use. Bicycles are in common use. AR15s are NOT in common use. Stop with the hocus pocus icon.

icon: You made the original assertion, you prove it

I previously presented the argument below, you miss it?:
... Only ~5% of gun owners own one (if that due multiple ownership), only about 1% of americans own one. You call that 'popular'? popular amongst far rightwing gun owners. 4 million ar15s out of 300 million guns in America.
What are they 'commonly' used for? target shooting seems to be the common theme, surely infrequently by a tiny portion of gun owners; you rarely hear of them being used for righteous purpose or dgu, moreso for mass shootings or prancing around town exercising the open carry rkba. They are not in common use, they are upper class white man's toys & status symbols.