Come and take 'em, bro.
There is no such thing as "assault weapons." There is no such thing as "military-style."
These were the cutting edge of "military style" in 1776:
I can only assume that the point of the word salad is to hide the real goal of the bill. One might infer that said goal is to totally disarm the American people.
Freshman Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other Democrats on Wednesday to reintroduce the assault weapons ban, a proposal to prohibit the purchase and possession of high-powered semi-auto firearms such as the popular AR-15 rifle.
The bill has virtually no chance of becoming law since Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, but Democrats see it as an important marker in the gun control debate in Washington, which has seen little movement since the 1994 assault weapons ban expired more than 20 years ago.
The 1994 ban didn't stop the bad guys from getting guns. Dems love to say it reduced shootings, which were already on the decline due to tough-on-crime trends in big cities like New York. After the ban expired in 2004, there was no spike in crime involving aSsauLt wEaPonS.
In fact, semi-auto rifles like the AR-15 platform are involved in a tiny fraction of violent crime (three times as many people are stabbed to death annually). If Schiff wanted to stop gun violence, he'd focus on the inner city kids shooting each other using full-auto Glock switches that they get from China via the cartels.
He might also want to ban hands while he is at it.
But stopping violence doesn't seem to be the point. Banning modern (read: useful) gun technology means Americans have to defend themselves with tech invented prior to the late 1800s. That would make it a lot easier for weak government men like Adam Schiff to force people to do his bidding.
The Founding Fathers would have laughed in his face.
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