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Originally Posted by General Tsao
um no. they are very different rifles. notably the m-16 is capable of fully automatic fire.
standard ar-15 is illegal in Connecticut.
"no federal law" means precisely what it says; Connecticut's laws are not federal laws, obviously
Also wrong re: M16, the AR-15 was designated M16 by the military when introduced. If the commercial model used here - no idea how we know which iteration was used - was only semi-automatic, you're technically right because this would have been a semi-automatic rather than fully-automatic design, but if we want to split hairs the receiver is identical - in fact most of the weapon is identical - and can easily be converted to fully automatic for minimal expense. For that matter you can convert caliber, etc., with the same receiver very easily.
EDIT: Point being, this is an M16 that in its commercial
legal availability is not fully automatic. Better now? Pretty irrelevant point.