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In reply to the discussion: Guess what, liberals? We will NEVER know enough about guns to be "qualified" to write gun laws! [View all]TxRider
(2,183 posts)In this case "works" means you can kill just as many people, exactly as quickly, as you could before the law.
I bought my first "assault weapon" under the old assault weapons ban. It didn't in practice actually accomplish anything. Sure I can't attach a bayonette to it, it doesn't have the scary looking flash suppressor on the end of the barrel, but it is every bit as capable as it was before those cosmetics were changed.
Reality is that there is no technical difference between an assault weapon as they are called and any other semi auto weapon built in the last 100 years. So the only way to differentiate and not have to ban the majority of guns made in the last 100 years is to use the only difference that exists, which is cosmetics.. how it looks.. which is useless in accomplishing the stated goal of the law as looks are so simply changed.
You really do need at least some knowledge of the weapons to make any informed law that could stand up in court, knowledge I could teach anyone in under ten minutes would suffice.