They cannot identify most of the dead from last night's slaughter

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128. The assault rifle is not your granddad's hunting rifle.

ARs have magazines to hold multiple rounds of ammunition, to allow sustained, uninterrupted firing--something mass shooters need, but hunters don't. And ARs have barrels designed with heat dissipator fins to handle the heat caused by such sustained firing. Hunting rifles aren't designed for sustained firing. Few hunting rifles use ammo magazines, each bullet being loaded into a built-in chamber with limited capacity, and there are no heat dissipating fins on a traditional hunting rifle.

The AR-15 is, by design, easier to shoot accurately and rapidly than a typical hunting rifle because it mitigates recoil. The standard AR-15 bullet carries kinetic energy of 1300 foot pounds. A typical hunting rifle bullet has between 2600 and 4000 foot pounds, meaning it has greater recoil. The excessive recoil of a hunting rifle precludes rapid firing on target, because of the obligatory motion of the gun and its impact on the shooter. But the moderate energy of the AR-15 allows shooting on target literally as rapidly as the trigger can be pulled, while providing ample bullet speed to inflict massive lethal wounds. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/parkland-shooter-s-ar-15-was-designed-kill-efficiently-possible-ncna848346

You can cherry pick various modern rifles (which are being built more and more like ARs, because gun nuts love them some ARs) and say they have certain features like an assault rifle, but that doesn’t mean assault rifles are hunting rifles or vice versa.

If you are hunting and your goal is to "blow massive holes" in the animal, then you are not really hunting, not for meat anyway. But you do you, hack89.