If your going to make an argument, get your facts straight, The gun used in Orlando was NOT an AR-15. It was a Sig Sauer MCX. (http://www.youngcons.com/liberal-media-r...-sauer-mcx). Two totally different guns. An AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16 differing only in capability that the M-16 has automating firing capabilties and the AR-15 you need to pull the trigger for each round. There are PLENTY of other legal semi-automatics out there that do the same thing, but the "advantage" of the AR-15 is that you can buy magazines that hold 30-100 rounds that shouldn't be sold. Kits go for as little as $15 to convert an AR-15 to an M-16 and give it auto fire capabilities (I actually own an AR-15 and have the kit, tho it's not installed in the rifle because that's a quick ticket to meet bubba in the penitentiary). I do not hunt with the AR-15. I use it for target shooting only and it's kept under lock and key at the gun club I belong to. Again. Three teen stepsons and the firm belief that if you don't put yourself in certain situations, nothing happens.
I feel the kits to make the guns automatic should be strictly regulated, but the piece is a strip of metal, not a gun, plans are on the internet and you can make it at home with minor tools.
Once again. It doesn't matter what gun is used. It doesn't matter if I own a gun. What matters is this shooter, already on federal watch lists, walked into a gun store owned by a former law enforcement official a week after he was refused to even buy body armor and still passed the security checks and was sold the gun. He should have been locked up right there.
And my feeling is just one more person in that bar with a carry permit would have limited the damage in THIS CASE more than any prohibition. People who are gonna kill are gonna kill, Period. YOu can take everything away and people will still find a way.