As you are obviously aware, the Second Amendment was created not to protect us from a burglar or hunt deer. The Founding Fathers gave us the Second Amendment as a last resort to tyranny. As you well know, all societies that became tyrannical, the lawful citizens had to be disarmed first.
All lawful American citizens should be fully armed to the best of their capability and wallet. Limits of what we can keep and bear are only there to ensure the government has more armament than the citizens. BTW, an 'assault rifle' is a select-fire weapon, capable of automatic operation.
The AR rifles we are granted permission to keep and bear without a tax stamp issued by the IRS, are merely replicas of the real thing. We've been conditioned to believe that any black gun is an assault rifle, based on appearance alone. An AR you build or buy in the store is nothing more than any other semi-automatic.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to guarantee that the people can own arms and bear them in service of the militia if needed. A citizen militia today would need a basic infantry semi-automatic rifle along the lines of an AR-15, AK-47. Anything less would simply be a slaughter.
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