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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a slippery slope argument from the NRA with no real basis in historical fact, for example the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban which expired after 10 years.[/quote]
The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was indeed a slippery slope.  The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban targeted semi-automatic weapons that cosmetically look like true military assault rifles.  These so called assault weapons are no more powerful than your typical wood stock semi-automatic hunting rifle.  A true assault weapon (aka machine gun) can fire multiple shots with a single pull of a trigger.  True assault weapons are already banned at the federal level.  So functionally speaking the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban signaled that semi-automatic weapons are dangerous and should be banned which would include many hunting rifles.  The only feature keeping semi-automatic hunting rifles from being banned was cosmetics.

Part of the problem is the loose definition that politics have created to define an assault rifle.[/quote]

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