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>> then they'd be classed as assault rifles and there'd be no regulation at all. I really don't understand people that say this. Have you ever tried to buy an

>> then they'd be classed as assault rifles and there'd be no regulation at all. I really don't understand people that say this. Have you ever tried to buy an actual "assault" rifle, meaning a select-fire battle-ready rifle? Even for semiautomatic rifles, the regulations are quite long. Maybe no one should own an AR-15 (though I doubt banning specifically the AR-15 would do anything since its not even the most effective gun for what people illegally and terribly use it for, people just happen to do it because its popular and in Call of Duty), but to call it "no regulation" is just silly.

alistairSH 9y ago
Yeah, the OP conflated assault rifle with assault weapon (the first being select fire, the second being semi-auto). That said, the regulations for purchasing a plain-old semi-auto rifle are not a particularly high hurdle. In my state (VA), you walk into store, point at gun, hand over 2 ID and a credit card, fill out a background check, and wait a few minutes for the NICS check to complete, then walk out with the gun. If you buy the gun from a private party, you get to skip the ID and NICS portion - just hand over cash and walk away with gun.