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Wow. I'm glad I looked up the list of companies who hate my civil rights.
I've picked a range of locations across the country in the path of the 2024 eclipse to reserve hotels in.
I'm going to have to make some changes.

Then why do you keep referring to assault-style or military-style as if they were a different class of guns?

For decades, the federal government, with the support of the National Rifle Association, has made it very difficult to answer a question at the heart of American public health and safety: Does gun control work?

The answer is hugely important given that guns killed nearly 39,000 Americans in 2016 alone. But after research on gun violence in the 1990s found that firearms do not — contrary to NRA talking points — make people safer, the group backed a federal funding freeze on gun policy research.

But studies have gone on — just without federal funding. And on Friday, a nonpartisan think tank, the RAND Corporation, released the results so far of its Gun Policy in America initiative, a two-year dive into the research on gun violence and the laws trying to curtail it.

What does it take for Fox News stars to turn on Trump? We are finding out.

Because in the past few years, a lot of attention has been drawn to their use in mass shootings.

a classic hunting rifle, you know, a single shot, lever action, or bolt action with a blind magazine.

The assault styled weapons are lighter in weight, easier to stow, and can have extra-capacity magazines, all features which make them better suited for carrying out an effective massacre. I think you know this.

I don't believe anyone would think it a significant event if every single person in Annapolis was dead by gunfire tomorrow morning.

The population of Annapolis is equal to the number of deaths from guns in 2016. And we ought to note that this does not address those who have been crippled, who've had part of their face blown off but survived, who've lost kidney function, etc.

Not a big thing. Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, England, etc etc could only dream of being as free as America.

That's no justification for pretending that they are different from other rifles.

Hold on here. Rifle cosmetics have nothing to do with whether they are semi-auto or some other action.

Having a pistol grip does not make a rifle lighter in weight.

Having a pistol grip also does not increase the capacity of magazines.

A collapsible stock might make it easier to stow, although minimum size requirements for rifles when they have the stock collapsed can address any concerns on that front.

Rifles that are designed to be easily disassembled into separate halves (and be easily reassembled again) are also easily stowed, even if they don't have a pistol grip.

People often wonder whether the United States is a particularly violent society. Several years ago, the same question led me to take a look at some comparative data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the rates of death due to assault across different countries. The OECD now has this data for almost all its members from 1960 up to 2014 or 2015. Here is what it looks like.

The short answer is that the United States is a society where an unusual number of people die violently, at least in comparison to other rich, capitalist democracies. That has been true for a long time, and it remains true even though far fewer people now die in the United States as the result of assault than at any time in the past 50 years.

Why this decline has happened is a matter of debate, with potential causes ranging from the demographic (a shift in the age structure of the population) to the organizational (better trauma care for those shot and wounded). As an officially recorded cause of death, “assault” does not pick out the exact mechanism of death, such as a gunshot vs. a stabbing, and so on. It does exclude intentional self-harm and accidents. But there is little doubt that the tendency for assault to be lethal in the United States has a great deal to do with the easy availability of guns.

The United States is not the most violent country in the world, or even the most violent in the OECD by this measure. Mexico has a much higher assault death rate, one that has spiked in the past decade. Estonia experienced a huge wave of (possibly alcohol-related) homicides shortly after its independence in 1991 but has since receded to near-average levels. But when it comes to questions of living standards, public safety, and social policy, Americans do not typically rush to compare themselves with these countries, nor with more violent non-OECD nations such as Honduras or Kyrgyzstan. The countries in the blue zone in the graph include the likes of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Britain.

Even as overall rates of violent death decline, the horrific, high-visibility mass shooting appears to have become more common in the United States in recent years. It is by now well institutionalized as a mode of violence. When one happens, everybody knows what to do. The past decade has seen innovations in terrorist violence elsewhere in the OECD, too, such as random knife and acid attacks, or driving vehicles into crowds. These are similarly horrifying events and — at least the first few times they are tried — may lead to many fatalities. Do not look for them in the United States, though. Their lethality is intrinsically limited. Using a truck as a weapon is just less efficient than using a weapon as a weapon. For as long as powerful firearms remain easily available to private citizens, the United States is likely to remain well above the OECD average when it comes to violent death.

If that's what people are talking about it's justified to use the corrected term, "assault-style". Firearms aficionados can use whatever terminology they wish, Joe Public understands what is meant by the term.

I said that I don't remember the last time one of these was used and that people currently seem to prefer the AR15 style.

I didn't say that it did. The guns weigh less than the military models they replaced.

I didn't say that either.

High capacity magazines are not available for the classic hunting style rifles I mentioned,

the classic hunting style rifles I mentioned, the single shot, the lever action, and bolt action with the blind magazine.

Classic hunting arms do not have collapsible stocks.

Whether or not there's a pistol grip is superfluous.

Disassembling a 30-06 with a 26" barrel does not result in an easily stowable package.

Note: As the gun thing has risen to the forefront of discussion here, the reaction from Fox shows how deeply the NRA has managed to manipulate a certain American demographic. It's been an exceptionally successful propaganda campaign. But behind it is a LOT of money and that money has facilitated serious organization and constant pressure on (mostly) right wing politicians.

Still, as recent events have demonstrated, the bad guys can be beaten.

Sweden's Electrolux Friday said it is now delaying a planned $250 million investment in Tennessee due to concerns the measures will cause a spike in metal prices. The world's second biggest home appliance maker buys American steel in all its U.S.-made products.

"We are putting it on hold. We believe that tariffs could cause a pretty significant increase in the price of steel on the U.S. market," Electrolux spokesman Daniel Frykholm said. "This is not the possibility of tariffs directly impacting our costs, but rather the impact it could have on the market and that it could damage the overall competitiveness of our operations in the U.S."