Although assault rifle definitions change from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, it is generally defined as being a semi or automatic gun with a detachable magazine and a pistol grip.
Also some places have stricter definitions, usually talking about the customizability of the weapon and how easily it can turned into an automatic gun (the ladder of which only applies to semi auto guns), and the AR-15 meets those criteria as well, being very customizable and is easily able to be turned into an automatic weapon, at least compared to something like an ACTUAL hunting rifle.
She's not wrong. The definitions are all true, but their are no solid country wide definitions for an assault weapon. With the ones gayming supplied, pistols could count as assault weapons. Personally I dislike why the AR-15 is being crucified, because of the "AR" abbreviation. It actually doesn't stand for "Assault Rifle" it stands for Armalite Rifle, named for the company that makes them.
AR-15 does not have select fire. Assault rifles by definition have select fire. WTF is an "assault weapon"? A hammer is an assault weapon if you smack someone with it.
Idiots.
Please take the vessel of your ignorance (your head) and submerge it in the Amazon River for no less than 15 minutes.
I guarantee that your stupidity will be cured.
So you're telling me that you can buy the equivalent of an AR-15 in a grocery store with no background check? That would be a felony on the part of the grocery store.
Not a grocery store. We have gun fairs in New Mexico about once a month, lasting for about a week. They take place on the fair grounds and you could feasibly buy whatever you could possibly imagine in there. The background check? "Are you a felon?" That's it. I am not kidding. Just some guy asking you a question you can lie on. As long as you got the cash and can lie then you've got a gun.
At gun shows, a federally licensed gun dealer is not permitted to sell a firearm without a federal background check. Person to person sales are legal without background checks, but only to a person within the same state, and it is not permitted to sell a firearm to either someone they know or to someone to whom they have a belief will do harm. If you are "engaged in the business of selling firearms", you must obtain a federal firearm dealer's license. While that is a subjective term, people selling as few as two firearms have been convicted of illegally selling firearms. Those are the federal guidelines, states may have more stringent laws, but not more relaxed. The "gun show loophole" is misleading, at best.
Also, you may not purchase "anything you can imagine." Automatic weapons are illegal to sell or purchase, without obtaining extremely expensive and rare permits.
No, I meant that statement. You can indeed buy anything. These things are highly sketchy, and people just don't care about what goes on in New Mexico. Most people on the east coast don't even know we exist. I don't know how to explain it in a way that doesn't seem "poor me".
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Thanks for explaining the "gun show loophole" man. I appreciate it.
If people are breaking the law, then absolutely, they need to be held accountable. Changing the law, however, won't make them compliant with the law. I feel we should have much stricter penalties and enforcement on people that break existing gun laws before we create a bunch of new ones. I don't mind any disagreement about this, but ambiguous terms like "assault weapon" make my blood boil, because they are terms used by those who should know better, to mislead people that don't. An example is Alan Grayson saying an AR-15 shoots 700 rounds a minute.
Well.. I know for a fact this is incorrect in Michigan. It may be different in other states, but.. whatever. It's a joke, I ain't gonna get butthurt over it.
Did I just say butthurt? Yes, I did. Deal with it.
Idiots.
I guarantee that your stupidity will be cured.
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Thanks for explaining the "gun show loophole" man. I appreciate it.
Did I just say butthurt? Yes, I did. Deal with it.