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In reply to the discussion: The actual reason that we lost on gun control. [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)And you don't have to tell me about advertising and marketing. Let's face it, pretty much all of it is bullshit. I have an 8-year-old, so you don't have to tell me about the stupid bullshit that permeates our modern living. Especially in the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The "spirit" of the law? Yeah, it was to make Clinton look tough on crime. Any attempt to explain away the AWB as a crime-fighting measure fails on a massive level.
Your goal, and correct me if I'm wrong, seems to be to limit available guns for purchase and ownership by private citizens to those only suitable for traditional hunting and sport shooting. Since any gun optimized for self-defense can also be used effectively for spree shootings, you simply want to declare self-defense an illegitimate reason to own a gun, and then outlaw any gun optimized for that illegitimate reason.
And I'll correct you... a Bushmaster MAY be an assault weapon, depending on the definition used. A Bushmaster IS sold either as a tactical rifle or a hunting rifle. And what concerns you, I think, is that there is very little difference between a tactical AR-15 and a hunting AR-15.