 But he didn't think a lot about the larger implications of weapons design. We spoke with one of the people who worked closely with him, Jim Sullivan, a guy who helped him draft the design for the AR-15, and we asked him, you know, what did you think about when you were building these guns for the military? And he said, well, I think about mechanisms, and I usually assume the U.S. is on the right side of whatever conflict is going on.