I will deal with only one of the misconceptions.

Actual assault weapons have been tightly regulated (in many States,
civilians can not legally own them at all) by the Nation Firearms Act (NFA)
for the past about 70 years. Very, very few crimes have been committed with
such weapons.

The law that just expired contained a definition that was equivalent to
defining the number pi as 3. It defined rifles with certain cosmetic
features as being what they could not be - "assault weapons." The law used
emotive words to make it appear that common rifles were the same as what had
been dealt with by the very old NFA. Even the media showed police owned
machine guns (regulated by the NFA) firing and then left the impression that
those were the rifles covered by the just expired law.

In short: the law that just expired was a fraud - assault weapons continue,
as they have for 70 or so years, to be very tightly regulated.

Mac N8TT

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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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