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47. There is no "proliferation" of "assault rifles, machine guns." These weapons are strictly regulated

and have been for years. I know of no intentional homicides using these weapons over last several years, and only a very few deaths-by-accident.

I don't know what you mean by "rapid fire guns." Semi-autos weapons (where a round is fired, spent casing ejected, fresh cartridge chambered, gun cocked with EACH pull of the trigger are indeed prolific. This action is the most popular type for self-defense, shooting sports, shotgun sports and increasingly for hunting non-fowl game.

"Assault rifle"' is a recognized term describing a rifle or carbine (short-rifled barrel) capable of Full Auto fire, and are issued to nearly all standing armies and most guerilla and insurrectionist forces. They do all of the above actions using medium power cartridges, but require only that you squeeze the trigger and hold it back to fire continuously. In this country, obtaining one is as difficult as acquiring a machine gun. You may be thinking of " assault weapon," a term of art to describe a Semi-Auto rifle which Looks like full-auto assault rifles. As such, they are essentially obsolete as military weapons. The semi-auto rifle accounts for significantly less than 3% of all gun-homicides, and in any case have proven impossible to ban as past legislation has focused on how the weapon "looks." Local bans against Any weapons can of course include these semi-auto rifles, but Chicago and D.C. bans have been overturned as unconstitutional.

Current BG check laws affect only FFL dealers and not individual intrastate sales; i.e., selling a gun to a neighbor. The only difference is instead of conducting business over the kitchen table, some folks may sell small numbers of arms at a big meeting hall. But the main sellers at a convention center are dealers, and they must do a b.g. check like any other brick & mortar gun or pawn shop.

I favor making the b.g. checks universal, but for now I can't use the NICS system even if I wanted to. It's only for dealers.

Incidentally, the ill-fated BATF gun deal which "lost track" of guns that were to be traced to Mexican drug/gun buyers, involved a FFL dealer who twice informed the BATF that someone was buying large numbers of guns. Of course, the dealer didn't know of the ruse.