Assault rifles are back! Big time!

[X_Digger]

5. It's.. it's.. it's full of memes! (In my best 2000 a space odyssey voice)

Let's count..

[div class='excerpt']It’s safe to say that assault rifles - 1 — semi-automatic military-style rifles with magazine clips - 2 that typically hold 30 rounds — have come full circle in America.

1. No, assault rifles aren't semi-auto.
2. Can't decide on which term is accurate? Use both!

[div class='excerpt']Assault Weapons Ban back in 1994, which made it illegal to sell - 3 19 types of semi-automatic rifles

3. Nope, it just meant that stocks and muzzle brakes had to be pinned. See the DOJ study on AR-15 sales *during* the ban for confirmation.

[div class='excerpt']The legislation expired in 2004, and since then, assault rifles have come storming back.

AR-15's never left. (Not counting this one since it's a repeat of 3.)

[div class='excerpt']On the one hand, I can’t see why anybody really needs - 4 one of these blasters. They’re not practical for hunting - 5

4. There is no Department of 'Need'. In order to justify restricting a right, the government has to provide the justification. The people don't have to demonstrate why it shouldn't be restricted.

5. Tell that to all the hunters using the R15 and R25 to hunt game.

5.5 -- Where does the second amendment mention hunting, again?

[div class='excerpt']smaller shops have been selling the heck out of them since the ban expired in 2004.

Repeating 3.

[div class='excerpt']to get them in into these military style guns - 6 — they’re trying to normalize them

6. All guns, save for a few specialized ones- owe their heritage to 'military' arms.

[div class='excerpt']that somehow these are legitimate hunting weapons, and they love to find instances where hunters use them.”

Repeating 5, 5.5.

[div class='excerpt']championing sensible solutions - 7

7. Whatever they want, slap the label 'sensible' on it, and therefore anyone who opposes it is not sensible.

[div class='excerpt']crimes involving high-clip capacity guns declined - 8 during the ban.

8. The DOJ's study on the issue begs to differ. google 'aw_final2004.pdf' to find it.

[div class='excerpt']“It’s just a matter of time - 9 before we have another one of these mass shootings involving an assault rifle,” Henigan said.

9. Bluud weel ruun on da streeetz! FBI's UCR begs to differ.