Rifles have none of the legitimate uses that gun advocates go on about so its a low reward but 0 loss situation to ban them.
Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.
Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.
A big fraction of serious marksmanship is done with rifles, including multiple formats that depend upon semi-automatic rifles.
There are many collectors of curios & relics of military and sporting history, which are overwhelmingly rifles.
My brother kills trapped raccoons on his property with a rifle instead of drowning them because he feels it is more humane.
There's a ton of legitimate sporting use, some defense use, and they are used much, much less in crime than handguns.