Gun Control & RKBA

An assault weapon ban can never work. That is because so called assault weapons are only cosmetically different than any other semi-auto gun as they are all functionally the same. There is no way to describe an assault weapon that would not include plain old guns used for hunting, thus there will always be a loophole in the law that allows cosmetic changes which would unban any targeted assault weapons.

Look at all of the state level AW laws and even the last Federal AWB, nothing was really banned. Instead guns were divided into pre and post ban.

The only way to really ban your so called assault weapons is ban all semi auto guns. Of course those same guns could be made in semi auto versions and that is already happening... so much for your ban. I know it may come as a shock but non-semi-auto guns can be fired at nearly the same rate at semi-auto guns.

As for handguns, you already made it clear that you want to ban those too, so basically you do in deed want to take away all the guns but are willing to do it a little bit at a time.

Even a complete ban won't work either as guns are not difficult to make. Semi-auto guns have been made for over a hundred years using manual equipment and hand tools. It would be foolish to think that they couldn't be made with today's table top computer controlled milling machines and 3D printers.

You mention Australia... a complete ban has been in place there for 22 years, yet they recently had an amnesty where 57,000 illegal guns were turned in, including thousands of machine guns. Yes, actual assault weapons, not your so called semi auto assault weapons. That is because it is actually easier to make a home made machine gun than a home made semi-auto gun and additional parts are needed to stop the gun from firing between shots. As for the repeated lie that Australia has had no mass shootings since the ban, well that isn't true as there have actually been 3 mass shootings.