• 2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 months ago

    No, it’s like pushing for horse-drawn carriage control because people in cars are speeding, or like saying there’s a butter-knife loophole around sword bans.

    It’s fucking important to know about the things you’re trying to legislate, and knowing that an AR-15 isn’t an assault rifle is such a basic bit of information.

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      11 months ago

      It would be like banning hysterectomy as treatment for anyone who isn’t certifiably hysterical.

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      11 months ago

      The AR in AR-15 may stand for Armalite, but an AR-15 is still an assault rifle.

      The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.

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      …examples of intermediate cartridges are the 7.92×33mm Kurz, the 7.62×39mm and 5.56×45mm NATO.

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        11 months ago

        AR-15 is not selective fire. That means fully automatic, something that is already effectively banned in the USA.