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Originally Posted by Brujah
The police officer in the video says "Terms like assault rifle are hard to define. I don't know what an assault rifle is." Before making a video, maybe he should be clear on the terms first. Example:
Assault weapon refers to firearms that had been developed from earlier fully-automatic firearms into semi-automatic civilian-legal versions.
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This would be banned, its just a shotgun but it looks scary!
This Ruger semi-auto rifle is perhaps the most popular .22 made and all three of my kids got one when they were young:
This is the exact same gun with a few add-on modifications that make it
look like a military weapon:
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Both guns function the same way...they are semi-autos, not machine guns. Under the new "assault" weapons ban proposals, the latter would be banned, and it's not unreasonable to assume the former would be also.
They did that in Australia, and the did it in the UK. (and violent crime skyrocketed in both countries).
glad to see that Pelosi has come against this bill as has Reid