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[AtheistCrusader]

179. You are confused.

You keep saying 'more deadly' and 'lethality' as if that has anything to do with range/cyclic rate. When you say 'lethality', that corresponds to the energy delivered. Firearms capable of delivering enough energy to disrupt and kill a mammal many times larger than a human have existed for 200+ years. Please be specific in your use of terminology.

An elephant gun that can accurately reach 100 yards further than an older design isn't 'more lethal' than its predecessor. They both deliver lethal energy within supported ranges. One can simply reach a bit further. A dove load isn't 'more lethal' than regular bird shot, in fact, it can be less lethal, but it will fly farther and flatter than your standard bird load. An AR-15 is LESS lethal than its predecessor, the .30 caliber battle rifle. But it shoots faster, flatter, and further more accurately. But it delivers less energy, and is less likely to kill.

Trust me, if you have the option to choose between being shot with 7.62x51mm, and 5.56x45mm, go with the AR. It is not more lethal, even though it is more likely to hit you at 600 yards. If you have the option to choose between an adversary with a single standard mag equipped FAL, and a AR-15 with a single Beta-C mag, maybe go with the FAL and hope he runs out of ammo before he hits you, because the guy with the AR can shoot further/more accurately, and gets ~80 more shots at you before he runs dry.

Anyway, this is mostly nomenclature/semantics. You don't apparently know much about how firearms actually work. Please don't use weird terms in bad ways and pretend amusement when I try to point out problems with what you claimed. Stop mixing terms and pretending you know what you're talking about.

And since the problem is widespread absurdly easy availability of these weapons due to the saturation of the population with them, your suggested course of action which allows even greater access to more weapons would make matters worse. Yeah, at the very beginning they start out in the hands of legal gun owners... then some of them get resold, probably not all legally. some get stolen. More and more and more they filter into the criminal market because they're freaking EVERYWHERE and it can't be helped...

NFA weapons are not 'widespread absurdly easy availability'. They weren't even in 1986 when the registry was closed and new ones were made unavailable to civilians/non LEO. Adding semi-auto to NFA will choke unlawful transfers, because all levels of law enforcement will have immediate access to the last lawful owner of the weapon. A shithead straw purchaser might get away with ONE 'oh it was stolen' traceback, but that excuse wears thin quick. NOW, without NFA law enforcement has to work forward from the date of manufacture, find the point of sale's copy of the 4473, find the owner, find out how/when it was then transferred beyond his or her hands. That could be private, that could be paperwork, but it's legwork and it sucks, and at any time that person could say 'lost/stolen/sold it to some guy' and that's the end of the trail and nothing can be done. Straw purchasers move HUNDREDS of guns before they are caught even when they actually are caught at all, even after they attract attention/surveillance of the BATFE.

Under my suggestion, Unreported lost/stolen? Crime. Private transfer to 'some guy'? Crime.

Extending NFA to all semi-auto weapons solves all these problems you just complained about, except the NUMBER of weapons in circulation. Since there's enough for one for every man woman and child in the nation, it hardly matters on that score, right?

Making semi-autos NFA is a HUGE win for law enforcement. The President has already attempted to propose changes to NFA around Trusts, and received extreme outrage from the NRA/friends, so you can bet this is a course of action that will actually help.