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In reply to the discussion: Latest right-wing meme- "No assault rifle used at Sandy Hook" [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)Edit: this was brusque as first written.
I'm upset too. Obviously I'm upset about the shootings that happen, but I'm also upset that our party has, I'm going to be blunt here, lied to the base and so we're winding up pushing very hard for laws that don't do what we think they do.
There's a class of weapons that can fire once every time you pull the trigger, and that fire from boxes of bullets that you can replace.
These can fire a lot of rounds in a short period of time. That's a bad thing.
But no matter how angry it makes people when I point this out, the fact remains that the various Federal and State Assault Weapons Ban do not ban that kind of weapon. They regulate what that kind of weapon can look like.
So Lanza's rifle wasn't an assault weapon because it didn't have a bayonet lug. Under the proposed Feinstein ban, it will have to have a differently shaped grip.
If you advocate a renewal of the 94 assault weapons ban, you're advocating keeping Lanza's rifle legal.