Fuck me, that's intense and I hadn't even gotten to the video. What gun is that? It looks like what I'd use in a Call of Duty game, a SCAR or something like that. We had some reform in NZ after the Aramoana Shooting (14 dead, our country's worst I believe?) - some firearms were reclassified to minimize the chance of them being used in that manner. A surprisingly good movie came from it too. I guess I just don't grasp the culture around firearms that appears to be in the States. I know people who own firearms for hunting and pest control, but never for personal defence - they're always locked up and dismantled to some degree until they need to be used. Is it where people are thinking "Well someone could use their weapon against me, so I should be armed to negate that if possible"? It both fascinates and terrifies me.
That would be a Smith & Wesson M&P 15. It is very much like what you'd use in Call of Duty, where you'd probably be using an M4 Carbine, which is basically the evolution of the M16, which is the select-fire version of the semi-automatic version of the AR-15, of which the M&P 15 is Smith & Wesson's version (for "military & police"). US gun culture is insane. Going over previous discussions on Hubski, it's a killing field of user-inactivated's and shouting matches. Much like the United States.