@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:Rate of fire and the number of bullets fired before reloading is necessary is indeed the issue, despite your attempt to deny.
That is incorrect. Assault weapons have nothing to do with rate of fire or the number of bullets that can be fired before reloading. They are entirely about harmless features like pistol grips.
Blickers wrote:A rifle which can fire two or three shots a second combined with an ability to fire 15, 20 bullets or more before reloading is obviously a more dangerous weapon than a rifle which can get off fewer shots per second or has to reload after only 6 or 8 shots.
True. But that has nothing to do with whether a gun is an assault weapon.
Blickers wrote:As usual, the side which is losing on the facts seeks to dodge and make artificial distinctions where none exist.
The gun controllers are the ones who are losing on the facts here.
It's one of the reasons why the NRA finds it so easy to defeat them.
Blickers wrote:And the gun supporters have been on here complaining about laws to prevent the mentally ill from getting their hands on rifles which shoot 2 or 3 bullets per second which can shoot 15, 20 or more bullets before the need to reload. It is a major issue with gun supporters, and the rest of us have to witness the horror of what it leads to.
If someone is claustrophobic, afraid of heights, or has an eating disorder, that is no reason to label them as mentally ill and deny them the right to buy a gun.
It is pretty unlikely that someone can shoot two or three times a second
while still aiming usefully. Even with a low-recoil round like the .223 Remington it seems unlikely.
If gun controllers truly care about limiting the sizes of detachable magazines, they shouldn't sabotage such measures by tying them to a pointless and unconstitutional ban on pistol grips. It only ensures that the NRA will defeat the measure and that the courts will strike it down if the NRA fails to block it.
On the other hand, the NRA would surely block limits on magazine size regardless. But the gun control movement sure makes it easy for the NRA.
