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Doubledee

(137 posts)
1. One annoying little fact
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 12:20 PM
Dec 2015

While we certainly need controls on purchases ( background checks and waiting periods seem reasonable) and on magazine capacities as well, one continuing fiction actually harms the case for those reasonable restrictions.

An assault rifle, by definition a military grade weapon designed for and used by our military forces and our police depts. ( not so certain I favor the increasing militarization of our police depts., frankly), has one specific characteristic that makes these definitions of weapons used by these mass murderers false and gives ammunition ( yeah I know) to the NRA and its allies; all such have either a three position selector switch, single shot, three round burst, fully auto, or are fully automatic period.

The use of the term is simply incorrect when speaking of a rifle with only semiautomatic capabilities. These are made to look like military grade weaponry but are no such thing. Trivial you say? I think that gun supporters ridicule every false use of the term and thus the real message is lost among the very folks we must convince.

AW bans OK with US supreme court [View all] jimmy the one Dec 2015 OP
One annoying little fact Doubledee Dec 2015 #1
term is not a definition tho jimmy the one Dec 2015 #2
Groucho was a funny and wise fellow Doubledee Dec 2015 #3
quickly recognized acronym jimmy the one Dec 2015 #5
Loretta Lynch is right mwrguy Dec 2015 #4
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