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Originally posted by Rick Lee
BTW, these types of guns are used in less than 1% of all gun-related crimes. A cop literally has a better chance of being attacked by an escaped animal from the local zoo than coming across one of these. The so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" only banned some guns based on they way they look, not how they fire. Last time I checked, no one in had been killed by a bayonet, folding stock or flasg suppressor, which this law banned.
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Yep.
The recently expired Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) only affected certain features of semiautomatic rifles. Specifically, a rifle could only have TWO of the following features to be legal:
Detachable magazine
Pistol grip
Collapsing/folding buttstock
Flash suppressor
Bayonet lug
So AR15s and AK clones kept selling, sans the buttstock, flash suppressor and bayonet lug. The information I've found stated about 1,000,000 of these types of limited feature rifles were sold during the duration of the ban.
That's ONE MILLION.
In spite of that, studies by the CDC and DOJ found that the AWB had no measureable affect in either direction (decreasing or increasing crime with 'assault rifles').
Further yet, gun grabbers like Fienstien and Schumer, etc, still want to enact another ban. We have independant GOVERNMENT agencies flat out saying the AWB didn't do anything, yet they think it's a good thing. We don't need laws that don't do anything..
Anyway... go out and buy an AK... take it 'off the streets' so the gun grabbers will be happy! hehehe