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You're thinking like a European serf.

All you had to do was post a link to your "statistics." I don't doubt you, I would merely like to see the original graph. Or at least the name of your source so I could look it up.

These weapons can go for less than $1,000, though they can be customized and cost in the thousands of dollars.

Bill Tracker: A ban on large capacity ammunition magazines

Each legislative session thousands of bills and amendments are introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Only a fraction become law, and an even smaller portion receive wide media coverage.

About the bill

The United States is in the midst of another round of debates about possible gun control legislation following a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February.

Pennsylvania is not immune from this debate.

Several bills have been introduced in the state Legislature aimed at addressing gun violence through things like background checks and bans on certain types of firearms or accessories.

Rep. Kevin Boyle, D-Montgomery County, has introduced a bill that doesn’t focus on the gun per se, but rather how much ammunition it can hold.

These bills impact the lives of people living in Pennsylvania every day.

Each week The Sentinel will highlight one bill that has not received widespread attention.

What does that have to do with the fact that handguns are used way more often than rifles in mass shootings?

I'm guessing that the increased firepower of the AR15 and other similar assault-style weapons represents a perceived risk greater than that inherent in a pistol or revolver.

Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week
Carl Icahn has impeccable timing.

To be certain we'd have to see more extensive statistics

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt refuses to accept the theory of anthropogenic global warming, so it probably does not come as an enormous shock that Pruitt also refuses to accept the theory of evolution by natural selection. “There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution,” Pruitt told a radio host in 2005, in tapes obtained by Politico.

Pruitt also expressed a number of other orthodox theocratic right-wing views, many of which he framed as part of his religious worldview. An EPA spokesman, asked about whether Pruitt’s skepticism of scientific conclusions conflicts with his mandate to follow science at the EPA, tells Politico, “If you’re insinuating that a Christian should not serve in capacity as EPA administrator, that is offensive and a question that does not warrant any further attention."

Adding a pistol grip to a rifle does not give it any increase in firepower.

Why don't you provide that?

Yes, that fact has been established.