ARs are sporting guns.

Sport is somethign people do.

Guns don't know and don't care.
They are objects not beings. They are tools and can be used for sporting purposes as much as any firearm ever made

ARs are no less "sporting" than Mausers, Krags, Mannlichers, Springfields and most muzzleloaders. Same with 9mm and 45 cal auto pistols, revolvers and cap and ball revolvers.

The lack of wood stocks is just an evolution of arms design. I note that MOST bolt actions sold today have plastic stocks on them. So an AR is just as much a sporting arm as this is.
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Cultivating a mindset that somehow ARs and "black guns" are not "sporting arms" is to give leverage to the whole anti-gun crowd. Military arms of yesterday are used for sporting purposes today. The weapon is not the rifle, it's the brain and will of the person carrying it. Firearms are just tools. Look here:
http://www.news.com.au/world/europe...s-story/c58ff8230506c3ab532c0621d279d983

Like trucks they can be used for evil, but unlike trucks they can be used actively against evil too.