My little baby. When I go to bed at night my AR-15 is always in the room and ready to go just in case. Luckily I've never needed to use her.

@freemo
what situation will that enormous gun improve?

@dantheclamman Quite a few. It would be far safer than a handgun for example due to improved accuracy (and relatively weak bullets for a rifle). There is a reason it is the most common gun, it performs very well.

@freemo
you need a scope for home defense?

@freemo
I really am not attacking you and its your call but this looks like a weapon for long distance offensive combat.

@dantheclamman combat? no one uses weapons for combat. Its for participating in a sport (shooting is a sport at ranges). In all liklihood it will never be used against a person, just like most guns.

Moreover if the scope was ever used outside of a shooting range most AR-15 are used for hunting (mostly small game) due to its excellent design and small caliber bullet.

@freemo
I mean you said you keep it with magazine ready where you sleep. Sounds like not for sport.

@dantheclamman It has a great many useful purposes, sport, decoration, defense, hunting, science experiments (of which i did a few with it). Defence is certainly one aspect where it can play a role, and i am prepared should it need to play that role. But in the end that is truely the least likely role the gun will ever actually play. All the others are far more applicable .

@freemo
I understand non emergency uses you mention, but it doesn't seem like having it avail for action helps for those uses. Meanwhile accessibility of a gun is directly associated with dramatically increased odds ratio of death by homicide. http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/1814426/accessibility-firearms-risk-suicide-homicide-victimization-among-household-members-systematic

@freemo
Again, it's your choice and right, I am just speaking from genuine concern and curiosity, not telling you what to do. You seem like a statistically minded person though and so I am surprised, just like I would be if you told me you were a chain smoker of unfiltered cigarettes.

@dantheclamman I take no offense to respectable discourse no matter what your intentions.

I am also a scuba diver, specifically a deep ocean/tech diver. The odds of a random person picked from the population of surving a dive to 400 feet is probably extremely low, they have no idea what to do. The odds of me, someone with a great deal of training and understanding has a pretty low chance of dying. So similarly it would be pretty absurd for me to base my decision on the population average rather than considering the risks for me as an individual given my understanding and practices.

@js290
Nothing i could disagree wit there.

@dantheclamman