Guns, assault weapons or otherwise. [View all]

Guns are seeing a fair amount of controversy just now. Judge Roger of San Diego decided his state's AWB is unconstitutional. The folks at ATF have stepped up with some proposed regulations for a few reasons having to do with things like 3D printers and 80% receivers but also because some guns today, for instance ARs and Glocks don't exactly fit the classic regulation definition of a gun.

IMO an assault weapon ban is rather meaningless and waste of political effort. This is a mini14, a ranch rifle:
https://www.ruger.com/products/mini14RanchRifle/specSheets/5816.html < link to manufactures site >

IMO this isn't an assault weapon nor an assault rifle. It fires the same ammo as an AR-15 at the same speed an AR can fire it.
Functional differences escape me. But then I don't think about modern rifles in the same way the Amish think about cars.