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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (705563)3/24/2013 12:58:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1587144
 
High capacity is an issue of the magazine, not the firearm, at least assuming a detachable magazine (or a modification of the gun to use one).

Archaic weapons can kill unarmed people very effectively. Modern weapons are more effective for militia type purposes, to support the government in extreme situations, or deter and oppose it in even more extreme situations should they occur.

But since the archaic weapons (and definitely all sorts of modern weapons that no one calls "assault weapons") can be highly effective at killing unarmed victims, and since so few people are killed by military looking semi-auto weapons, there is little reason to ban them as a category. There would be essentially no benefit in doing so. At very close ranges a shotgun is more effective, at long ranges a hunting rifle is more effective. If the criminal wants to hide the fact that he's armed as long as possible a pistol works better for him than a rifle. There really isn't any uniquely deadly ability about semi-auto low caliber rifles (weather they have a wooden finish or black plastic, whether they have bayonet lugs or flash suppressors, none of that matters very much). They are slightly better for sustained operations at short to moderately long ranges then many other weapons, so they fit better for militia purposes, but even if they didn't that wouldn't be a reason to ban them,. You don't need some special utility to not ban something, you need justification to ban it. There isn't any reason to ban semi-auto low caliber rifles of any appearance.
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