Gun lovers are just going to have to give up assault rifles.

[Scruffy1]

158. Unfortunately, you are right.

A lifetime time of screen and television have created the glamour of the gun. The population is so inundated with this bullshit that it has become an act of faith that a guns fix things. From John Wayne, the draft dodger, to Dirty Harry to Rambo and lately Django. I am so glad I came from a military family. My grandfather had three Silver stars and never owned a gun in his life. My father served in two wars and liked to hunt birds. The good news is that the number of the households having guns has declined steadily over the years. The truth is that even for hunting, anything more than a single shot is unnecessary. With a shotgun by the time you get the barrel down and back on lead it's too late and in most deer hunting you really get one shot.. Even in open country, it's rare to get a second shot and if you do it's at a running target, which maybe one in a hundred could hit and they would have hit it the first time. The bolt action repeating rifle was just a hand me down from the military for when you are shooting at stuff that can shoot back. The repeating shotgun was aimed at market hunters not sportsmen. At the best it's just a convenient way to carry ammo. Some trap shooter like auto shotguns because of less recoil, but there are a lot of ways to reduce recoil.