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11. I'd be fine with keeping fixed-magazine semi-autos

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #10)

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 04:34 AM

Jun 2016

But I think you're exactly on point there: futzing around with anything less than a full ban of semi-autos with detachable magazines is frankly window-dressing.

We even have a great legal instrument for doing this, the 1934 National Firearms Act, under which firearms are scheduled according to fitness for civilian use. It's actually administratively a fairly small matter to move semi-autos (either all of them, or just those that accept detachable magazines) from where they are to the same schedule as automatics. (Politically, of course, is a different story...)

And, yes: anything we do must include handguns. Frankly if I faced a choice I'd go after them before I went after rifles.

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