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I hope you're not referring to me as I was very clear multiple times I am not anti gun. I seek a reasonable limitation of an arm which is appropriate for the masses. As @Bigbrogalluded, times have changed and it is not reasonable for citizens to be armed like the military.

When was the Dickey Amendment repealed?

I hope a I am as passionate and spunky when I'm 93.

Reuters and the BBC are reasonably neutral. Content on the BBC is entertaining. I don't think a neutral American news outlet exists. They are all narrative driven to tell people what they want to hear. In my experience, most who strongly distrust the MSM blindly believe harebrained nonsense not sourced from there.

Current standards? The constitution hasn't changed and the law obviously survived supreme court rulings. Do you mean the composition of the courts have been sufficiently manipulated?

Unconstitutional?

This is sad. I can't imagine how frustrating it is for legislators. People won't even accept the existence of a word or a phrase, despite it's presence in the dictionary and being defined in an actionable law 30 years ago. This is the narrative driven world of alternative facts.

I have provided an actual English language definition from a dictionary. Twice. Not good enough? Look up the federal law from the 90s when an actual ban existed. That will be explicit enough for anyone, present company excepted.

Clearly your assumption was wrong, again. It is beyond silly you two think an assault rifle doesn't exist.

The fact you don't know what that term means in military parlance is all I need to know about you.

https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/land/armament-systems-and-ammunition/

I know what deer rifles are used for. I know what bushmaster cannons are used for. Many others as well. And I know what assault rifles are used for.

Still crickets.

You don't want to see your own anonymous opinion in persisted media. That is courageous.

I disagree, but this is a reasonable opinion.

You won't answer a simple question?

We have already established I am not against guns, just weapons of war. That is what an assault rifle is whether you like or not.

You owe me an answer. We all (probably) have a limit on the class of weapons which exist in the military but the level of lethality renders them inappropriate in society. Mine is assault rifles. What is yours?

False equivalency. Cars are made for transportation, assault rifles are made to kill people en masse.

I read a wild conspiracy theory. He was pulled over a hundred yards from where he lived because they were hunting him. He was dating the former girlfriend of one of the officers.

*Lost. I have already corrected it. Because assault rifles have no place in society. I don't understand what monster we have created, TBH. No one does. Gun culture and fascination with them is part of it, I think. We need to change that. The reason to raffle off assault rifles is because people want them more than other types, so they will buy more tickets. They are cool, hip. Might even land you a lucrative career with fame and fortune like Kyle Rittenhouse. Maybe we are just a nation of wanna-bes?

Are you proposing we get rid of hand guns? It is not what society lost. It is what society, our society in particular, created.

Wow, sounds like old Slick Willie. What your definition of "is"? That is the dictionary. Anybody can see the difference between an assault rifle and a deer rifle - unless you don't want to. Too bad, they do exist and there is no place in society for them. Moving on. In a roundabout way, that sort of brings us to Sandy Hook. That was the one that took my innocence. Literally millions of people obstinately and hatefully refused to acknowledge its existence, including current sitting members of Congress. We actually vote - in droves! - for people not dissimilar to Alex Jones. BTW, as an aside. Less than a month after Sandy Hook, I was at a large tournament in Boise. The fund raising raffle grand prize to benefit the school children? Yep, an assault rifle! How is that for cool, @Nailbender?

I'll repost for convenience. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assault rifle