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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Everyone keeps saying that it's just cosmetics and correctly pointing out that they are functionally equivalent to a Remington semi auto hunting rifle, but again, [b]what did the Paris attackers use?[/b]  What did the Colorado Planned Parenthood attacker use?  A Remington?  No, they used AK style semi auto assault rifles, and why?  Because of the mindset, acting like Rambo.  They aren't the same.[/quote]
The Paris attackers used true military grade assault rifles capable of firing multiple rounds with a single trigger pull.
They had Chinese Model 56 variants of the AK47 Kalashnikov assault rifle and Zastava M70 assault rifles.  Both types of guns are Federally banned in the US and banned throughout Europe.
They also had semi-automatic pistols.

I'm not so sure you can blame mass shootings on Hollywood Rambo movies.

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