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In reply to the discussion: The Pro gun arguments are compelling and absolutely correct. The AWB was riddled with loopholes [View all]Kennah
(14,256 posts)64. Those weren't loopholes. Those were the details of an assault weapon ban.
There are two ways to identify assault weapons under the law.
1) Name specific makers and models, but a company can make a small change and declare it a new model and thus not subject to the law. As such, this is a deeply flawed approach.
2) Identify cosmetic features, over and above semiautomatic and detachable magazines, to identify assault weapons.
In either case, it's simply a way to ban some semiautomatics while one tries to figure out how to ban other semiautomatics.
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The Pro gun arguments are compelling and absolutely correct. The AWB was riddled with loopholes [View all]
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
OP
Loopholes were written into the law by pro gun folk and gun corporations.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#1
True, but these laws are often amended in the process of going through the house and Senate.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#62
Well,, that really wasn't the argument at all. The point was you were wrong.
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#33
I can reload a six shot revolver in about the same time it takes to eject a magazine and shove
byeya
Dec 2012
#83
During the course of my career I've had three coworkers shot to death while they were
byeya
Dec 2012
#87
Nah, he's saying revolvers and pump action weapons should be the same as automatic weapons
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#6
Then we treat revolvers and pump action weapons the same as automatic weapons under the NFA
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#13
Quite simply, semi-auto's are NOT automatic. It defies reality to call them or treat them as such.
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#24
Hence why the pro-gun peole are right and we must treat them identically to automatic weapons. n/t
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#38
It could work , get rid of the tax stamp , make it shall issue , No LEO sign off
former-republican
Dec 2012
#20
I was only saying semiautomatic weapons, which clearly have the firepower to be included
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#36
You hope that, don't you? But your own arguments point clearly to this being the only way.
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#46
Not requiring licensing for the millions of existing guns is a deal breaker for me
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#93
If you repealed the Hughes amendment, you just might get a lot of pro-gun people to go along.
aikoaiko
Dec 2012
#47
If we could add semiautos to NFA, then we could build a middle ground limitation
Kennah
Dec 2012
#94
No no, the gun-huggers have made it clear since '94. You cannot eliminate the loopholes.
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#72
It's actually going to work the other way around , Thank you for supporting that
former-republican
Dec 2012
#75
That's the only way the NRA and gun enthusiasts will support reclassification of semi autos
former-republican
Dec 2012
#95