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In reply to the discussion: Mass shooting in Indianapolis... [View all]Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)are styled after military weapon. Heck, my M1 Garand rifle, Mauser 98K rifle, Mossberg 590 shotgun, and Colt 1911 pistol are military issue weapons as such. Being military issue or styled on a military weapon s no reason in and of itself to restrict a weapon. If that was the standard, we'd ban singlle shot Springfield rifless and Brown Bess muzzleloaders.
The point at whiich we (for practical purpopses) ban military firearms s when they're machine guns. If it just looks like a machine gun but fires semiautomatically only, it's not more restricted (some states aside) than your great-great-great grandfather's lever action deer rifle. That's why this:
Is perfectly legal in most of the US, despite feeding from a 200 round belt and loooking virtually identical to the US Army's light machine gun. It 's a semioautomatic. It's also has an MSRP of $8499.