As a gun owner and a former member of the NRA I have arrived at the opinion that there should be

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95. It banned the manufacture of these, yes.

You are playing games with semantics. I never claimed that it tried to go out and confiscate existing weapons or magazines.


How are the old ones and the new ones different? In the number available. By allowing more to be made and sold you put more out there and increase the odds of some nut job getting his hands on one. Older weapons will eventually have their number decline. Some will either need repair or be confiscated by law enforcement. Keeping the flow of new weapons available reverses this inevitability.


The fact is that this guy went out and bought brand new weapons. He would not have been able to get his hands on the AR-15 or the magazine as easily if they had still been banned. If he had walked out of that store with a hunting rifle that only held 6 rounds then far fewer people would have been killed.

I'm not saying there is any perfect solution. Arguing that because we can't eliminate the threat means that we can't mitigate the threat or reduce the damage done is not rational.