You edited this in later, so I'll respond with a 2nd post. > (2) For just one example, ranchers rely on long guns to defend their livestock from wildlife, dogs

You edited this in later, so I'll respond with a 2nd post. > (2) For just one example, ranchers rely on long guns to defend their livestock from wildlife, dogs, etc. And do you need 30 round magazines in those guns for such defense? Do they need to be fully automatic, or with 3-round-burst firing? The issue, is that we in the USA cannot stop these kinds of massacres: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massac... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting This problem has been going on forever. And no one seems to want to even try to stop it. So fine. Lets not try to stop the mass shootings. Lets just mitigate their damage by reducing the kinds of weapons that are in play.