> -=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to DAN CLOUGH <=-
> 
>  >  er> (No one really needs an AR-15 unless you're in a war trying to
>  >  er> kill lots of people.)
> 
>  > Well, that's your opinion, anyway.  Pretty hard to define "need"
>  > sometimes.  Quite easy to define a Constitutional right, though.
>  >
>  > By the way, AR-15's are not used in war.  By anybody.
> 
>  BA> Ah, but they were.  I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was
>  BA> at Da Nang in 1965
> 
> No, you didn't.  Your memory is getting fuzzy.
> 
> You carried either an M-14 or an M-16.

I was in the Air Force, Dan, and I carried an AR-15.  I don't think the
M-14 or M-16 was in the Army's inventory in 1965, although I'm sure they
were being tested.

> An AR-15 is *NOT* a military weapon, and never has been.  It also 
> is *NOT* the same thing as an M14/M16.  I would hope that you know 
> the differences, and I'm wondering why you apparently do not.

I don't know the differences, as far as I know I've never seen an M-16 or
an M-14.