BS? You're obviously the expert, so.....
I'll freely admit that I am wrong and you are right when you can successfully justify to me why any "civilian" would have to:
1) "conceal a rifle"
2) "sound suppress one"
3) "humped it and several hundred rounds"
4) "quietly remove a guard dog or a sentry"
5) carry "(several hundreds of rounds) in mags, 20 miles a day, for a week or more, in rough terrain"
You can't! There will never be a situation in which you, John Q. Public will ever need to do any of these activities. As a matter of fact, just about every single one of these "tactical actions" is blatantly illegal and you know it.
The military only has the option of carrying a M-16? Really? I guess the dozen other weapons that I’ve used and qualified with are figments of my overactive military imagination! Wow, think of all of that time and money the government must have wasted on training me!
I'll give you the one-handed shoot argument, but that would apply to any firearm. It is a skill that must be learned, practiced, and developed in order to build proficiency. If you carry *legally* you had better know how to operate and fire your weapon with one hand.
I'm not going to start a pissing match with you, but make sure that your arguments are valid, factual, informed, and necessary before posting them in a public forum....Just my .02