FPrice said:Add to all this that the Assault Weapons Ban did not, I repeat not ban any assault weapons, but rather re-defined semi-automatic lookalikes in an effort to convince the Great American Public that these were automatic weapons of war.
So to argue over semantics and models is a bit of mental masturbation at best.
Agreed, but that goes in both directions. There are a bunch of NRA whiner
types who go around panting that "Assault Rifle" = must be select fire, eg,
full auto. I say... who cares. The same people whining about this definition
are likely the same ones who probably encouraged the NRA
to throw the machinegun baby out with the bathwater in 1986. There
seems to be this crew of people that like demonizing machineguns, as if
they were ever a real problem in this country. so called "Gun Crimes" are
rarely committed with NFA-class weapons, even the illegal, unregistered
ones.
-Mike