Your guide to semi-automatic rifles

[JoePhilly]

4. I'd drop the names altogether in this discussion ...

... and instead look to quantify a weapon's ability to kill a certain number of people from a specific distance, within a specific time period.

The time frames would be something like under 0-10 seconds, 10-20 seconds, 20-30 seconds, and so on.

As for the number of people, let's say 100 people in a restaurant.

So ... with a knife, you can kill maybe 2 people in 10 seconds, but as more time passes, more and more people escape. And so, in 30 seconds, maybe you could kill 5 or 6.

Specific Hand gun with 9 bullets before reload ... do the same math.

Specific Hand gun with 15 rounds .... do the same math.

And then do it for the same weapons you show ... and others.

Then you start drawling lines.

The more deadly the weapon, the more hoops required to obtain it. Licenses, registration, periodic retesting. Mandatory classes.

In this model, you can own a rocket launcher if you want ... you just have to pass the tests.

Standard hand guns, relatively little restrictions. Same for standard hunting rifles.

The more people a weapon can kill in a short time period, the harder it should be to obtain.