Its basically a civilian version of a M16/M4. It is the platform of gun used by the US military for the past 30 plus years. It is the only gun i own that is for sporting purposes. It has absolutley zero practicality. I guess i can shoot small game like foxes with it but i dont. I have a shotgun and a pistol that I would call their primary use self defence. I inhereted a pistol when my grandfather passed away, but i would never use it. Everything else i would use for hunting. I dont do as much as i used to when we moved to Jersey. But yeah i grew up around guns just used for different purposes.