@oralloy,
So far as I know nobody has ever blamed pistol grips for mass murders but assault weapons have been responsible for many mass murders.
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A pistol grip does not make a long gun an assault weapon.
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You need the right tool to do the right job and that applies to mass murders also. Assault weapons are the right tool for mass murders.
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The long bow is long obsolete as a weapon of war it made clubs obsolete as a weapon of war obsolete.
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Time and technology march on and many state of the art weapons are long obsolete. Six hundred years is an eternity in technological time.
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It does not have to be a new invention to get a patent it only has to be a significant modification of a current invention.
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A pistol grip may not make a difference but making a gun that can shoot 900 rounds a minute does make a difference.
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The assault weapon ban was the best thing that ever happened in America and it saved thousands of lives.
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The NRA officers will end up in jail for money laundering the Russian political contributions. The NRA never overturned the last assault weapon ban it expired.
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And still other weapons are designed for mass murder.
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All guns do not accept magazines.
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The manufacturer disputes that, they designed the assault weapons to fire 900 rounds a minute according to the manufacture.
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All inventions have lifetime and become obsolete, weapons of war are no exception.