Reply #74: No problem

[Nyati13]

There is no practical difference between a semi-auto versus manual operated firearm as far as acts of crime go. Most crimes are committed with 1 or 2 shots being fired (or to be more generic, less than the 10 rounds stipulated in the AWB), at short distance.

Semi-automatic rifles are a great deal of fun to target shoot. It is a very challenging, and entertaining sport. Just remember, there are 80 million + firearms in America, and 99.9% of them will never harm another human being. I have 16 firearms myself, and the only damage any of them have done is to square sheets of paper, with little target rings printed on them. All but two of them are semi-automatic. I have 2 rifles, one semi-auto, and one bolt-action (manual-operated), the bolt action rifle is far more powerful, far more accurate, and with far,far greater useful range, so what exactly makes the semi-auto so terrible, and the other rifle somehow less so?

The real point of gun laws should be to restrict the access of criminals and mentally unstable persons to firearms, and having a law that only bans a few cosmetic features is not going to achieve anything like that.

Jeremy