'Assault rifle'... That sounds a bit like something the army would have. Why would a private citizen have one of those? Aren't they banned?
Nope, not banned though some US States are way more heavily regulated while others are a bit more lenient of everything related of buying, owning, storing, transporting, usage, number of cartridge/magazines that hold the ammunition, reasonings of ownership, etc..
The higher number of bigger mass shootings over the somewhat seemingly recent years are not helping things out any enough that now politics and news outlets are seemingly making good people seemingly bad to where it’s a continual battle of one’s side of view of another and what to do with them (AR) and becoming just guns in general too.
(My view) Either way one judges a view of justifying owning these types for reasonings of personal preferences of usage, at least for now they (guns) are all generally protected under the second amendment of which as time goes by sometime seems the Constitution of the United States is slowly eroding away from within regarding certain aspects… Time may tell… I believe Australia went away from owning any guns and I believe as of possibly today Canada also went away from owning them too in certain aspects.
The AR spanner tool reference above was something I had just recently learned myself only after reading the topic posted so figured I’d share the findings especially since the cost seems somewhat reasonably priced vs others or some may already own one which is the subject at hand that even we’ll have to get back on track here ourselves because after all it’s iboats boating forums of no politics.