"Assault weapons bans do not work"

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94. Why the need for loopholes?

Why the need for loopholes when the original legislation as proposed does not ban the manufacture of weapons that are compatible with existing magazines? Again, the first gun in that picture would continue to be manufactured and could be purchased by anyone who wants one, it's exempted from the proposed ban, as are M-1 carbines, another semi-automatic weapon that uses detachable magazines. The M-1, which was originally designed for the US army and was in service for over 40 years, has been manufactured since WWII, there are about a gazillion 15 & 30 round mags available for the M-1 on the open market, none of which would be banned under the proposed legislation. An M-1 was one of the weapons that was possessed by Charles Whitman, the infamous Texas Bell tower shooter, who killed 14 people and wounded 32 others in one of our country's worst public shooting incidents. Specifically exempted from Di-Fi's proposed AWB, except for the paratrooper version that has a folding stock.