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[QUOTE=FordGT90;388485]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.
Ah, yes. The right-winger feint so that they don't have to discuss gun sanity laws in a serious manner. Make it an arcane discussion of "what assaulter weapons" are. Forget about the FACT, as previously stated, that mass murderers have made assault type weapons their primary choice because they can be fired relatively rapidly (up to 60 rounds a minute) and have large magazines such that the murderer will not have to reload. Makes it awfully easy for the murderers to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible.
Not to mention that the assault type weapons serve no useful purpose in either self-defense or hunting.
The number and casualty list of mass murders has increased greatly since the Repubs in Congress repealed the Clinton ban on them and Junior Bush signed it. They have the blood of literally hundreds of victims since that time on their hands.
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