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In reply to the discussion: Patton Oswalt: What gun owners think they look like... [View all]aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)But all fetishistic objects are imbued with special powers.
There are anti-RKBA persons who support the Assault Weapons Ban who think a different grip will magically make an AR15 designed rifle somehow less lethal.
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This AR, from what I can tell, would be legal under the proposed AWB (maybe the hand guard would have to be different, too), but the essential difference between the rifle above and the one used in the Newtown shooting (itself compliant with the CT AWB and former national AWB) is the grip. There is nothing magical about that grip that makes the rifle less lethal in the hands of a malicious shooter. But its like a fetish to anti-RKBA folks who claim to be interested in reducing gun violence.