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lol. I hope you are trying to say something else, because of what I understand, your post is pretty stupid, sorry for the harsh direct statement. So, you are telling me that Assault Rifles are as deadly as pistols? I do want to see your logic in saying that a automatic weapon that can kill 10-20 people in a couple of seconds is as bad as a revolver or pistol which takes many seconds to fire one after an other and with a smaller clip then an AR.
This is an AK-47.
Scary, right? It was made in WW-II. It can fire 600 rounds a minute, if it had the ammo to, and has clips of 10, 20, 30, 40, 75, or 100, and an effective range of 400 meters and is semi-automatic. Scary, right?
This is a Calico M95.
This is a semi-automatic machine pistol. It has a rate of fire of 740 rounds a minute, an effective range of 300+ yards, and a clip of 50 or 100. Not scary? After all, it is just a pistol.
He is right. It is really stupid to ban assault rifles when you have no clue what an assault rifle is.
26 years ago. And how many weapons have been made, acquired, and used since then?
Of the weapons made since then? All of them are illegal, every last one of them. The ban says it's legal for weapons with a pre-1986 receiver to be transferred for a relatively modest fee of $200, as it's classified as a destructive device. What the law doesn't mention is that most of these weapons cost tens of thousands of dollars, hence why they aren't used in crime. A criminal can buy an entire arsenal for that price. Any automatic weapon with a receiver made after 1986 is completely banned, and there is almost no way of actually getting one. The only options for people are convert a semi-automatic weapon (a very, very serious felony) or start mass producing such weapons. The only ones in private hands are in Class II FFL holders, who I'm pretty sure aren't going to use those weapons for crime seeing as they're the manufacturers of them.
If most crimes commited are by people who obtain handguns illegaly, then we should at least figure out how people are illegally obtaining these handguns and stop them.
Most acquire them from drug dealers or steal them. The drug dealers typically get them from arms dealers who usually deal in stolen or imported weaponry. There is nothing you can do about that, unless you propose we ban guns because they might get stolen, and if you do that, well...
Why should civilians possess them?
Why shouldn't they? Just because they're associated with a certain usage, doesn't make them any more likely to be used in crime. Gun laws, as with all laws, and meant to protect the population. Banning a weapon that is not a danger to the population is just a pathetic waste of money and clamps down on potential markets.
A pistol at home is enough for self-defence in case of a break-in.
Who cares what people NEED? If people want something, they deserve to have it. This is the land of freedom, not the land of restriction. If something isn't a danger to everyone else, who cares if people have it? You're not going to end up staring down the barrel of a legally acquired automatic weapon or semi-automatic assault rifle any time soon, at least if statistics are anything to go on.