Gun Control & RKBA

I've said in the past that the AR-15 is essentially the same as any other gun and that an assault weapon ban is worthless because there is no way to describe what an AR-15 is without including many other guns.

That is why the AR-15 was back the last time it was banned because manufacturers removed the banned cosmetic features.

Now they have converted the gun from semi-automatic to pump, which has always been the substantial difference between an AR and every other gun.

Guess what, now the pump AR isn't semi-automatic so it can't be a semi-automatic assault weapon. However it still fires one shot per trigger pull but requires the action to be manually activated between shots. However that takes little time and that there are many guns that hold a lot of ammo and are just as quick.

The Henry rifle immediately comes to mind. As I recall, it is a lever action rifle invented 158 years ago and it hold 17 rounds. You might call it the assault weapon of the old west.