Feinstein will introduce assault weapons ban in Senate

[pasto76]

98. yes you are missing the name. Assault Weapon. For assaulting military targets

a lot of you seem hung up on this. They are in fact, assault weapons. designed for use by soldiers like me in assaulting military objectives.

While a good assault weapon has many features that make it useful for this compared to "your daddy's shotgun" or your deer rifle, the semi auto ability combined with a high capacity magazine is the core of what makes it useful. It is still US doctrine that we have more bullets loaded into magazines than the russians or chinese, and that we also carry more magazines.

Look at WWII there were myriad of weapons issued to our troops. M1 garand. Semi auto with a moderate capacity clip, good range. Tommy gun. Automatic pistol round, shitty range. That goofy small 30 caliber automatic. BAR, 30-06 automatic with a 20 round clip. all of them are at least automatic. All of them require only pulling the trigger as opposed to lever action or bolt actions. In the 60s we moved to a smaller caliber, less recoil to improve accuracy but higher magazine capacity, and an auto option for when you need lead downrange...primarily for suppressive fire.

Now I can go to the store and buy a .223 caliber semi auto weapon _without_ a pistol grip or bayonet lug, and it is, frankly, still as lethal in my hands as my issue M4.

we need to focus on the semi auto and round capacity. If it is semi auto, there should'nt be more than 4 rounds (including one in the chamber). bayonet lugs and collapsible stocks are red herrings.

And isnt is illegal to hunt big game with a 223 caliber in most states anyway?