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Straw Man

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17. Right.

Reply to SQUEE (Reply #16)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 04:17 PM

Feb 2018

Has a magazine, rail, and a muzzle device..

Looks intimidating.

But it doesn't have the sine qua non of assault-weapon definitions: it isn't semi-automatic.

So here's the question: When assault weapons are gone, what's next on the list? Scary-looking bolt actions or non-scary semi-autos?

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