] I, for one will be glad to see this sunset. It was poorly
] conceived and banned individual weapons based upon appearance
] rather than function. The majority of banned weapons were
] imported but for the most part, functionally identical to
] other non banned weapons which happened to have a less
] menacing physical appearance.

Well it looks like everyone bought a round at the I'm retarded bar this weekend.

It doesn't matter how the banned features were ultimately suggested, be it "menacing physical appearance," dice, or even bloody darts. Stop harping on how the items were choosen, because its irrelavent if the banning final features in the bill did have functions that it would be a good idea to protect. IE Stop judging the creation of the bill and judge it on what it does.

Your arguement, and indeed, the arguement that most people against this bill seems to be: This ban didn't reduce bullet size, packing, or rate of fire. Thus the ban is pointless. And the thing is, you are right about the power issue. So what is your problem with the ban then? It doesn't reduce the hole you are going to put in a deer or an intruder in your house.

So, yes, the bill doesn't solve the power issue. What does it do, and what features get banned? Lets exmaine a few:

-You can't have a folding stock, making weapons easier to hide under clothing. Makes sense. Handguns are easy to hide because of size, so we have a law against consealed weapons. This prevents you from making an semi-automatic weapon easier to hide.

-Cannot have flash suppressor. Again, makes sense. In hunting, the animals are gone as soon as they hear the gun fire. So having something to hide the visual notice of where a gun is being fired from is pointless. Sure it looks "scary," but this is a logical item to ban.

-Can't have 30 ammo clips. Shit! Now what will you do in case of Red Dawn?

-Do you even want to defend the grenade launcher? Come on!

The ban doesn't solve the power issue, but it does ban features which really shouldn't effect you anyway. Dismissing the law simply because appearence was a factor is by far the stupidest thing I have ever seen you meme.

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