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Originally Posted by FordGT90
And most of them are moving through the judicial system. States and cities pass dumb laws faster than judges can rule on them, you know.
Using the phase "assault-type" shows your knowledge on this subject is based on politicians which don't know jack !@#$ about the subject. There's really only four components that make a gun:
1) Trigger assembly. According to the National Firearms Act: only semi-auto are permitted to be sold to the public without special licensing. "Therefore, a pistol and an "assault-type" weapon have the same capacity to fire: one. at. a. time.
2) Barrel. This includes type and length. NFA requires barrels on shotguns and rifles to be above a specific length. The reason for this is to forbid them from being concealable. Long barrels tend to mean higher muzzle velocity because the gases coming from the shell have a longer period of time to act on the bullet. The barrel also often has rifling which imparts a spin on the bullet increasing accuracy. Larger diameter barrels usually result in higher kinetic force of the round fired but also adds to weight reducing the handling of the gun.
3) Magazine. How many rounds the firearm holds in a state ready to be fired in rapid succession. All guns have a standard magazine that's strongly tied to the overall effectiveness of a gun. Long rifles, for example, tend to have a small magazine because one shot is intended to kill the target. Short rifles tend to have 30 because there's a minor component of "spray and pray" when using it. Pistols are usually somewhere in between the two: simply because people are drawn to pistols that look nice so they design it to hold as many rounds as will fit in the look of it (usually handle). Belt fed weapons and drum magazines are used for suppression (firing in the general direction of an enemy to make them keep their heads down) which is why they can carry in excess of 100 rounds.
4) Stock. This used to not matter much but with the invention of bump stocks, they do. Since bump stocks are controlled now, there's not too much to be said here. Stocks in general increase accuracy of follow up shots by reducing recoil.
Put bluntly, NFA already forbids all "assault weapons" to the public. When SWAT or SEALs assault a building, they have full-auto or bursting MGs or SMGs. Those scary carbines are just oversized pistols. Their capacity to kill depends on the user.
Except 2nd amendment: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." As in government can't deprive people of that ability (unless they're a felon).
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Leaving the preface statement of purpose out of an abbreviated quote of the 2nd is disingenuous.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Given that authoritized well regulated present day state militias are issued standardized arms, it can be argued that the 2nd is an anachronistic obsolescent portion of the Constitution with no clear present day purpose, other than a justification for armed insurrection for any grievance against authority.