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 alr

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.