re: #219 austin_blue

I don’t own an AR15 or an AK47 but I do own an M1 Carbine. Functionally they’re pretty much in the same ballpark. Gas operated, intermediate cartridge rifles. The Carbine doesn’t have the AR15’s range, accuracy or flat trajectory, it’s bullets don’t tumble in ballistic gelatin, it was designed two decades earlier, and it has the all important wood stock and normal rifle profile which makes it look innocuous in comparison to the other two rifles.

My M1 Carbine has been in my family longer than I have, originally bought from the US government as surplus for under 20 dollars. Treating it, the Garand and the Ruger 10/22 rimfire as machineguns isn’t going to make them any safer, since these guns are virtually never involved in crime to begin with. Making them NFA also means states can ban them entirely, as many do with some or all NFA weapons.