AG Maura Healey bans sale of 'copycat' assault rifles in Massachusetts

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4. From the link

"But, according to Healey, some gun manufacturers made guns that are very similar to assault weapons but with small changes. For example, they do not have a collapsible stock or a flash suppressor. That does not change the lethality of the weapon, but it does let the gun manufacturers claim it is not a copy of an assault weapon, so it is "state compliant.""

This is kind of funny. Gun control proponents advocate for an AWB based on cosmetic characteristics like collapsible stocks and flash suppressors, and then they complain when gun manufacturers delete those features in order to keep selling the same weapons. What did they think would happen?

The AG just admitted that the AWB classifies weapons based on characteristics that do not affect their lethality. Why not just re-write the law to cover weapon characteristics that actually can cause more deaths?