The Rude Pundit: Adam Lanza Fired Over 150 of These in Less Than Five Minutes

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125. People own "machine guns, mortars, bazookas".

Flamethrowers are not regulated as firearms, they're classified as agricultural implements, actually.

And yes, people DO actually own howitzers, tanks, jet fighters, and in some case, with a complete and functioning armament set.

"Could be wrong, but my recollection is the 30- and 50-caliber U.S. machine guns in WWII had a rate of fire in the 600-rounds per minute range whereas a German machine-gun could fire in the 1,500-rounds per minute range."

Yeah, that's probably somewhat close to the truth, however...

What you said, was that "the Congress has decided it's aok for the citizenry to tote and brandish an assault weapon which can fire more rounds per minute than American machine guns could during WWII."

First, "brandish" is a legal term, and congress has not legislated that "brandishing" is legal.

So, its factually incorrect and misleading at best.


Second, you're claiming that a so called "assault weapon" - a semi-automatic weapon, which fires one single shot per one single trigger pull and requires a separate trigger pull for each separate shot fired - has a higher rate of fire than a ww2 machinegun which begins firing when the trigger is pulled, and continues to fire as long as the trigger is held down.

Again, fatually incorrect, and misleading.

FWIW, yes, ar-15s are protected, I'm quite sure. They are after all, the most popular rifle platform in the US, and well beyond the threshold of being in "common use".