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In case it isn't obvious, most US regulations are purposefully designed with loopholes big enough to (ahem) drive a truck through because someone was paid off b

In case it isn't obvious, most US regulations are purposefully designed with loopholes big enough to (ahem) drive a truck through because someone was paid off by a lobbyist to weaken the legislation. Republicans then get to bray about how "useless" laws/regulations are. See: gun legislation. The average gun-tard loves to shriek about assault rifle regulations being about "cosmetics" and so on and how useless/stupid they are. That's because republicans pushed to make the bans about specific items/appearance/lengths so that the gun industry could make a rifle that was a tenth of an inch shorter and not sell it with a particular grip from the factory and skate right on by the regulation.

pc86 4y ago
I'm not aware of any banned firearm that suddenly becomes legal when you change the cosmetic aspects of the grip and shorten the barrel. Usually barrels are already about as short as they can be without reaching NFA territory where things become logistically, if not always financially, expensive to get your hands on. I think the problem most pro-2A people have with proposed gun regulations after a shooting is that none or very few of the proposed regulations would have done anything to prevent it. I'm happy to debate a 10-round magazine limit or something like that on its merits, but when there's a gang shooting with an illegally-modified AR-15 and you start talking about 8-round limits instead of 10, or when there's a school shooting with a legally purchased AR-15 but you start talking about banning unrelated ammunition you lose a lot of credibility in my opinion. If you want to ban something just to ban it let's talk about the merits of that proposal, but let's not pretend that changing the NFA barrel length from 18" to 16" is going to do anything.

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In case it isn't obvious, most US regulations are purposefully designed with loopholes big enough to (ahem) drive a truck through because someone was paid off b

by KennyBlanken 4y ago

pc86 4y ago
I'm not aware of any banned firearm that suddenly becomes legal when you change the cosmetic aspects of the grip and shorten the barrel. Usually barrels are already about as short as they can be without reaching NFA territory where things become logistically, if not always financially, expensive to get your hands on. I think the problem most pro-2A people have with proposed gun regulations after a shooting is that none or very few of the proposed regulations would have done anything to prevent it. I'm happy to debate a 10-round magazine limit or something like that on its merits, but when there's a gang shooting with an illegally-modified AR-15 and you start talking about 8-round limits instead of 10, or when there's a school shooting with a legally purchased AR-15 but you start talking about banning unrelated ammunition you lose a lot of credibility in my opinion. If you want to ban something just to ban it let's talk about the merits of that proposal, but let's not pretend that changing the NFA barrel length from 18" to 16" is going to do anything.