• capital@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This is the only issue you’ll be downvoted for saying that about.

    Abortion, internet security, immigration, healthcare, etc is all fine to say that about but not guns.

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      11 months ago

      I have zero consideration for my karma score. If I bother commenting it’s so others will read and possibly read into what I’m speaking of and further inform themselves.

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          11 months ago

          https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1808/text

          Just for reference, the latest assault weapons ban would have banned everything that is not a bolt action rifle pump action shotgun lever action rifle or a revolver from the early 1900s. And with the overlapping restrictions many of those would also be banned for capacity weight or other arbitrary addon definitions.

          For example a single action shotgun from 1880 would be classed as an illegal assault weapon as it has the capability to: “accept a detachable ammunition feeding device at some location outside of the pistol grip.” It does not matter that it is a single action. Shotgun the fact that there are devices specifically invented to assist with reloading makes it an assault weapon as the law is written.