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[quote=Anonymous][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, what did the Paris attackers use?  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]

So you want to ban semi-auto rifles? What do you want people to use? Old-fashioned bolt-action like the winchester repeater from the 1850s? Blunderbusts? People who drone on about "semi-auto assault weapons!" don't realize that almost all guns are semi auto. Virtually every pistol is semi-auto (e.g., glocks, barretas, double action revolvers, etc.).  Do you want people to be forced to use old-fashioned single-action revolvers that you have the cock the hammer each time you want to take a shot?[/quote]

I don't want to ban semi-autos, I am just more sensible than the folks who are fixated on "military look" weapons, like AR-15s and AKs.  Though I've used ARs, AKs, and the real deal, full auto M-16s I grew up on bolt-action hunting and military rifles and between hunting and military marksmanship training can probably do a lot better than the typical yokel Rambo wannabe with an AR, in particular bigger grain weight/caliber, higher velocities, et cetera.[/quote]

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