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I'd like to drop kick her hag face.
She may not have known what a barrel shroud was but its logical legislation. Barrel shrouds allow legally bought semi auto weapons which have been converted to full auto to be held more steadily while spraying a room full of people. If you need a weapon like this for legitimate self defence you've obviously insulted far too many people in your life.
Wells ... as far as I know the law only stipulates that a semi automatic with a barrel shroud AND another of the following:
-Magazine that attaches outside the pistol grip
-Threaded barrel to attach barrel extender, flash suppressor, handgrip, or silencer
-Unloaded weight of 50 oz or more
-A semi-automatic version of an automatic firearm
For example a semi automatic version of an Uzi with a barrel shroud would be illegal but a semi auto version of a micro Uzi as long as it doesn't weigh more then 50oz and only uses magazines that don't reach outside the grip would still be legal.
Barrel shrouds on rifles or shotguns are still perfectly legal and in fact revolvers are not included AT ALL in this ban as one of the primary conditions is a detachable magazine.
Sure you can re-aim your weapon quickly but there are plenty of things that can stop massacres and pretty much all of them are suggested by gun control legislation in the USA:
Reduced mags don't hurt law abiding citizens but hurt people going on rampages.
Reduced rates of fire dramatically reduce the lethality of even individual attempted murders (see Australian statistics).
Regulated calibres save lives as lighter shots are likely to disable or incapacitate but not kill leaving the law to sort out the mess rather then decomposition.
IMO all that should be legal are:
All regular shotgun cartridges
.22
.303
.308
Only manual loading (bolt / break / pump action)
Max of 5 round mag's (including a 6th in the chamber)
Of course this will never work in the USA as the culture of violence and weapons is far too embedded in not only the culture but law. There are far too many weapons in private hands now that will turn said private hands into criminal hands. Sure many of these gun owners will respond as Australians did to the legislation in the late 1990's but many won't and violence will rise to a point where it could threaten the stability of the government ... a prospect which involves 15,000 nuclear warheads with an uncertain future. I mean we're talking about a country that loses more per year to firearms then a lot of countries lost per year to civil war.
I personally enjoy living in a country where if I'm attacked by a guy wielding a knife one day and a guy wielding a gun the next I'm more likely to survive the guy shooting at me and I've got the statistics to back me up.
In the meantime all you guys have got is personal attacks and flawed logic.
I mean you still haven't noticed that the legislation on barrel shrouds only applies to semi automatic mag loading handguns and are still basing your criticism of this legislation of the idea that it will outlaw shotguns and rifles. Do some research outside your closeted little NRA centric worlds and realise that less guns = less people dying from bullets = good.