Gun Control & RKBA

Branford: .. I fail to understand why you are arguing about the definition of "assault rifle," as they are usually readily recognized, full-automatic, military combat arms that are already heavily restricted under the NFA. I assume you've either made a mistake or are attempting to conflate the term with "assault weapons,"..

No mistake on my part, the several mistakes in your post are all entirely yours. You operate from 4 false premises; first, I did not provide any definition of 'assault rifle' - I clearly, in CAPITAL LETTERS, described what the TERM assault rifle has become:

I had written, +emph: The TERM assault rifle has come to mean & imply a rifle previously designed for a battlefield, which had automatic capabilities, & which generally can be converted back to full automatic.

Branford: Your claim that these popular, widely-owned guns can be easily converted to fully automatic is ludicrous, and belied by the statistics that show virtually none of these weapons are used in crime, converted or otherwise.

See readers? false premise #2 from Branford, since I did not say these rifles could be EASILY converted to full automatic, I just said that they generally could be - sometimes indeed done with difficulty. 98%+ of 'assault rifle' owners would not even want to convert them to full auto, it's just that the capability is there & it is inter alia what defines the TERM assault rifle.
Go ahead Branford, point out exactly where I said or implied that they could be EASILY converted.

branford: Your further attempt to define "assault weapons" and/or "assault rifle" as just "previously designed for the battlefield" as a basis for regulation is similarly absurd. Virtually all weapons have some military "pedigree

Branford misrepresents me again, creating another false premise #3; read again what I had written Branford: The TERM assault rifle has come to mean & imply a rifle previously designed for a battlefield, which had automatic capabilities, & which generally can be converted back to full automatic.

Not all 'military pedigree' weapons (re small arms) have automatic capabilities, mainly those which are termed 'assault rifles'.

Branford: Under your standard, everything from Revolutionary War muskets and your cited bolt-action rifles would be restricted.

No Branford, that would only be under your perversion of what I had written, since the musket & conventional rifles are not automatics/capable. Another of Branford's famous false premises #4.
I will ask you to stop twisting about what I write & putting your insulting words in my mouth, or sd&su. It actually makes you a liar several times over in your one post, you need to at least retract, tho I doubt a warranted apology will be forthcoming.

Branford: .. the proposed federal "assault weapons ban" after Sandy Hook couldn't even muster 50 votes when the Democrats controlled the Senate.

Despite being wanted by ~55% of the American people, accd'g to several reputable polls.