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In reply to the discussion: Help me out with weapon terminology please [View all]sir pball
(4,741 posts)35. It's any semiautomatic rifle. Or handgun, for that matter.
Magazine capacity is by and large irrelevant. Mass shooters tend to prefer firearms that automatically reload after each shot, negating the need to manually cycle the action. 5, 10, 30 round magazines are irrelevant - reloading is quick and easy either way.
e.g. - The M1 Garand is freely sold, by the government, to anyone who can pass a background check. It doesn't have a detachable magazine, or a pistol grip, but it was the firearm that beat the Germans in Europe and has been described as "the greatest battle implement ever devised."
I'm not going to take a side in this argument, but if you want to massively decrease *all* gun deaths in America, a confiscatory ban of all semiautomatic firearms is probably the best way to start.
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So I carried an M16A1 in Vietnam. The fact that someone can carry something similar in El Paso
wasupaloopa
Aug 2019
#31
Magazine because it contains the springs to push rounds up and can be changed out.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2019
#6
I prefer to just say, "Look gun-humper, they both feed bullets into the chamber so you can kill
Hoyt
Aug 2019
#9
NRA babbling points. You must be able to identify an AR-15 hammer spring blind folded
brewens
Aug 2019
#11
They say we can't just call them assault rifles because technically, these days those are
brewens
Aug 2019
#45
Generally if you are pushing legislation it is helpful to know what you are talking about-ymmv
EX500rider
Aug 2019
#15
As useful as it is to short-circuit their objection by just using the correct term from the start,
RockRaven
Aug 2019
#16