Your account is new to this site, and you seem to have a useful perspective and information that most people here do not. But your tone is unwelcome, and sugge

Your account is new to this site, and you seem to have a useful perspective and information that most people here do not. But your tone is unwelcome, and suggesting that my goal is to "scare uniformed people" is offensive. Stick around, but please be more considerate. The numbers are just numbers, but it's better that people start with accurate numbers rather than false ones. The "45 per minute" figure comes from a misleading Time Magazine graphic, and should be corrected regardless of the direction of the correction: http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/01/21/time-magazine-attempts-to-scare-with-ar-15-fact/ http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/01/21/time-magazine-at... Rate of fire and lethality have limited correlation, but perhaps more interesting for this discussion, legality and lethality have even less. I posted the article on the Slide Fire stock because I was not aware of it, because it's legal, and because it actually does turn an AR-15 into what is functionally a fully automatic rifle. But add a simple spring into it and suddenly it's illegal: http://www.slidefire.com/downloads/BATFE.pdf http://www.slidefire.com/downloads/BATFE.pdf The lethality is the same (and yes, arguably no different than an unmodified AR-15, although you should watch the videos if you haven't) but the functionally fully-automatic version with the spring is illegal, and the one without is currently legal (except for California). I find this an interesting point of discussion.