Comment

White House Floats Gun Control Proposals

88
Targetpractice1/06/2013 7:22:14 pm PST

re: #79 McSpiff

Sure, but the NFA isn’t purely tied to organized crime like RICO for example. The NFA could be extended today to cover things like AR-15s. If you think the only argument against this is ‘they aren’t widely used for organized crime’ you’ll be arguing against a strawman..

That’s just it, I’m not arguing against reclassifying them under NFA, I actually support that route. What I’m arguing against is the “gun crime” angle. Better instead to make the case that such weapons are too easily bent to unlawful ends to continue under the current regulation. Better to argue that AR-15 clones and other semiauto rifles feeding from detachable magazines have no legitimate lawful use that cannot be fulfilled by manual-action alternatives.