What the hell is going on?

[knieft]

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Originally posted by PaulW
Were these assault rifles? No? Then your efforts to protect assault rifles is, at best, severely misguided.

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Originally posted by PaulW

"Do you mean automatic military weapons? Semi-automatic? Bump stocks?"

Sure, anything that makes it easy for nut jobs to kill a lot of people.

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Fertilizer too? Lots of Hawaiian farmers will be screwed if fertilizer is banned, but at least they won't be able to blow up any Fed buildings in the Midwest.

Thanks for the non-answer answer.

With a _very_ minimum amount of research you can see that assault rifles are already banned. Assault rifles mean _automatic_ "machine guns" as used by the military which can be "selective" between semi-automatic and full automatic. They are illegal. So is the act of hardware modifying a semi-automatic rifle (or handgun) to become automatic (and thus the talk of bumpstocks which is the low tech way to do so).

Bump stocks are problematic, especially with large capacity magazines (anything over 8 rounds is already banned in Hawaii I believe)--and you can apparently mimic a bumpstock with very little effort. Even evil Trump appears to leaning that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assault_rifles

At least some of the Florida students say assault-like rifles (though I have no idea what that means) in their statements. Shows me they have some understanding of what they are talking about...

Cheers,
Kirt