There's always a fine line to walk between exercising your freedom and jeopardizing it. Remember that even the 2nd amendment can be repealed with enough public support. There is nothing "permanent".
Meat recovery laws work this way. Once an elk is dead, it doesn't matter to the elk, it doesn't matter to the herd, and it doesn't matter to the biologists if you haul that meat off the mountain. It matters because general opinion frowns on wasting the meat of an animal you killed. It matters because anti-hunting groups could make serious gains in public support if they showed hunters wasting animals.
This is a similar situation. I don't actually care about ARs and hunting. Not for them, not against them... But I can see both sides of the issue. It would make us all look bad if some wanna-be rambo was out there ripping off his 30 rd clip at a herd of running deer. That's a fact. On the other hand, in a treestand, good shot placement, responsible hunters wouldn't notice a difference between a AR and a 700. One shot is all that's needed.
Just remember that what you do reflects on all of us, and behave appropriately. Your "rights" are not as permanent as you think, and I sure don't want to lose any more.