<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Partially.  It&amp;#x27;s allowed in some places where the AR-15 is  banned.  People tend to react to the tactical appearance. There&amp;#x27;s almost no functional difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People like to bring up the Mini-14 in gun arguments, and I never quite understand what they mean to prove. The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps). It&amp;#x27;s not a black rifle, but neither is a classic AK-47, which also features a wooden stock.  The fact that it doesn&amp;#x27;t look like an AR-15 (or its successor, the M16) was a &lt;i&gt;feature&lt;/i&gt; of the weapon, not because people in the 1970s were afraid of mass shooters, but because the M16 had acquired a reputation for unreliability.&lt;p&gt;Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15? Of course, you&amp;#x27;re right. Obviously, Mini-14 regulation isn&amp;#x27;t that much of a problem today, since the AR-15 platform became the default sporting rifle platform.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s funny is that a Mini14 ranch rifle would be more acceptable to anti-assault rifle people.  Even though it&amp;#x27;s roughly the same thing.</text></item><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>Correct. There is no one brand of AR-15. It’s an interoperable platform (for the most part). You can buy a bare lower receiver from any manufacture (basically just a part with no moving parts milled from a single block of AL). Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs. It’s what makes them so popular. You can customize them infinitely and they’re extremely affordable and very reliable, safe and accurate.&lt;p&gt;People who own them don’t think of them as the crazy “military style” weapons you hear them described as. Most who own then just think of them as “the most standard and obvious rifle you can possibly buy”. Like you go into most gun store and it’s just the platform that is &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;. It’s “gun” in the dictionaries in heads of gun wonders. It’s nothing “crazy” to them.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>No lack of demand.  People are just buying less expensive clones of the AR15, like the Springfield Saint.  $650 vs the $1k real AR15.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colt is ending production of AR-15s</title><url>https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/colt-is-ending-production-of-ar-15s/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>28226</author><text>People bring up the Mini-14 because the Mini-14 Ranch (5801) is specifically, by name, exempt from &amp;quot;Assault Weapon Ban&amp;quot; laws while the Mini-14 Tactical (5846) is banned because of its ergonomic features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People like to bring up the Mini-14 in gun arguments, and I never quite understand what they mean to prove. The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps). It&amp;#x27;s not a black rifle, but neither is a classic AK-47, which also features a wooden stock.  The fact that it doesn&amp;#x27;t look like an AR-15 (or its successor, the M16) was a &lt;i&gt;feature&lt;/i&gt; of the weapon, not because people in the 1970s were afraid of mass shooters, but because the M16 had acquired a reputation for unreliability.&lt;p&gt;Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15? Of course, you&amp;#x27;re right. Obviously, Mini-14 regulation isn&amp;#x27;t that much of a problem today, since the AR-15 platform became the default sporting rifle platform.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s funny is that a Mini14 ranch rifle would be more acceptable to anti-assault rifle people.  Even though it&amp;#x27;s roughly the same thing.</text></item><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>Correct. There is no one brand of AR-15. It’s an interoperable platform (for the most part). You can buy a bare lower receiver from any manufacture (basically just a part with no moving parts milled from a single block of AL). Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs. It’s what makes them so popular. You can customize them infinitely and they’re extremely affordable and very reliable, safe and accurate.&lt;p&gt;People who own them don’t think of them as the crazy “military style” weapons you hear them described as. Most who own then just think of them as “the most standard and obvious rifle you can possibly buy”. Like you go into most gun store and it’s just the platform that is &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;. It’s “gun” in the dictionaries in heads of gun wonders. It’s nothing “crazy” to them.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>No lack of demand.  People are just buying less expensive clones of the AR15, like the Springfield Saint.  $650 vs the $1k real AR15.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colt is ending production of AR-15s</title><url>https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/09/colt-is-ending-production-of-ar-15s/</url></story>