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[Lurks Often]

60. Your insults aside

My comments stand, as written, none of them would have prevented Orlando.

As for the AWB it was based strictly on cosmetic features and guns manufactured before the ban were still perfectly legal. Removing a bayonet lug or flash suppressor did nothing to affect how the firearm functioned.

It's not 1994 anymore, there is no chance of another AWB passing and even if, for the purposes of discussion another AWB passed, you would see massive non-compliance by owners, law enforcement refusing to enforce the law and probably state level non-compliance. Just look at NY and CT, estimates on CT is that there is 80% non-compliance and NY County Sheriff departments have publicly said they would not enforce the NY SAFE Act.

You may also want to remember that the 1994 AWB ban cost the Democrats the control of the House, which they had controlled since 1952; it cost Tom Foley his seat, the first sitting Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign; it cost Jack Brooks his seat, Brooks was the most senior Representative ever to have lost a general election for the U.S. House. Gun control cost Ann Richards the governorship of Texas and started George W. Bush on the path to be President. Gun control = getting Republicans elected.

You knew that, right? Oh wait.