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Blackvegetable » 16 Oct 2020, 9:30 am » wrote: ↑

16 Oct 2020, 9:30 am

Dwarf,

I've made the point..

Repeatedly..

You've been diverting and dissembling.

AR15 rifles are sold to civilians ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY because they look like a military weapon (not entirely coincidentally, as it was designed and developed as such). They were NOT designed or developed for any civilian application...they were modified to conform with existing laws, so Colt could sell more units from their fixed capacity investment in the military orders for AR 15s.

Because the modifications only limit the original functionality at the margin, they can be "overridden", and its limitations from such modification overcome.

This is more than a modification.  It is a whole new internal design: 

To prevent a civilian semi-automatic AR-15 from being readily converted for use with the select fire components, several features were changed. Parts changed include the lower receiver, bolt carrier, hammer, trigger, disconnector, and safety/mode selector. The semi-automatic bolt carrier has a longer lightening slot to prevent the bolt's engagement with an automatic sear. Due to a decrease in mass, the buffer spring is heavier. On the select-fire version, the hammer has an extra spur which interacts with the additional auto-sear that holds it back until the bolt carrier group is fully in battery, when the automatic fire is selected.[54] Using a portion of the select fire parts in a semi-automatic rifle will not enable a select fire option (this requires a registered part with the ATF). Lower receivers that are select-fire are identified by a pinhole above the safety/mode selection switch.[55][56][57][58] As designed by Colt the pins supporting the semi-auto trigger and hammer in the lower receiver are larger than those used in the military rifle to prevent interchangeability between semi-automatic and select-fire components.[59]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle#:~:text=As%20of%20September%2019%2C%202019,rifle%20across%20the%20firearms%20industry.

That applies to the Colt Sporter.  Notice all the parts that had to be changed and redesigned? So no, the Sporter was not designed for the battlefield.