The "need" from the article refers to why the AR-15 standard is the right one to own, compared to all of the other guns available. He meant that, assuming you a

The "need" from the article refers to why the AR-15 standard is the right one to own, compared to all of the other guns available. He meant that, assuming you are going to own a gun, you "need" to get something AR-15 compliant because it's the best engineered option. It's analogous to someone saying that they "need" the right cocktail of drugs to execute a prisoner on death row, because assuming you're going to execute a prisoner you should do it with the best tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection#Conventional_lethal_injection_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection#Conventional_...