Feinstein will introduce assault weapons ban in Senate

[Atypical Liberal]

40. I doubt it will succeed.

There's only one way to ban "assault weapons".

And that is to ban all semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines.

The problem with the AWB is it was all about cosmetics. It banned nothing based on functionality.

You could have any two: detachable magazine, pistol grip, threaded muzzle, or bayonet lug.

So all the manufacturers/importers did was grind off the threads and bayonet lug.

In places like California where you still can't have the pistol grip people have made funky stocks that make it awkward to hold the gun but make it comply with the letter of the law and do not change the functionality of the firearm at all:



Nothing about the furniture changes the fact that an AR rifle is still an AR rifle.

The only effective, real assault weapons ban will have to ban all semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines.

That is going to be an awful long row to hoe. You are talking about firearms that have been in circulation for over 100 years.