then it is an assault weapon.

between automatic and semi auto esp because it seems to be not widely known on this site. It is the semi automatic they are calling assault weapons and they are one shot one bullet weapons not full automatic. I am not an expert but
We have lots of really good knowledgeable people on the site who can explain it and very well if they are given a chance.
I am extra sleepy so please forgive if this is jumbled up. Night.

Sorry...

And yes, I know the technical differences. Before that is, you try to lecture me.

...if society lawfully changes enough to ban guns. Ipso facto, such gun owners can not claim to be law abiding. Their argument is that they will abide with the laws that they like and thus can't be trusted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117294735

Have the rate of fire of a tommy, which is tightly regulated by the National Firearms Gun Control Act of 1934

http://law.jrank.org/pages/8725/National-Firearms-Act-1934.html

We have done this in the past...enough of this bullshit. (Not you, our fun nutters)

Very heavy gun. Virtually no recoil. Climbs like crazy.

But the point is...there are tight controls. We need to think of that. St Valentine Day Massacre led to that Act...it's in the books.

The tommy is legal to own. It's just a pain in the rear to do so.

With very extensive background checks. When was the last time one was used in a criminal act in the US?

Even with the much slower rate of fire and the Cutts Compensator, they too climb skyward

they serve no useful purpose ban them and try to recover as many as possible that are already out there.

Definitions are going to be massively important. That is why the last Fed AWB failed.

Why'd they stick a rant about grapes in there?

It's my position that "assault" is a verb, lots of people seem to think it's an adjective.

It isn't semantics, it's the heart of the disagreement.

also remind him

If only the shooter's first victim, a teacher, had a gun, this would have taken care of the problem.

Of course the NRA disciple don't get irony and satire (and even some on our side don't get it either).

But tell him that.
(btw-it always is HIM isn't it? not her, but him. That is always interesting.

This is the NRA way of "baffling with bullshit." Throw out a bunch of definitions and statistics about guns until people give up and shut up.

As long as we allow the agenda-driven gun obsessives to define what an "assault rifle" is, as long as we allow them to go into drooling hysterics over the negligible difference between a "magazine" and a "clip," as long as we allow them to deflect attention from what the important issues are, they will manage to prevent meaningful gun control from being put in place. Don't be fooled by all this, they've been using this tactic for years and years.