Hence my quotes around "hunting."
What got my attention was the distinction you made between a hunting rifle and ‘the type that would be covered by an assault weapons ban.’
Hunting rifles can be semi-auto, and accept a large magazine. I don’t think we are in a ‘bayonet mount’ fight this time. They are going to make an attempt on semi-auto weapons....after first assuring us that it won’t affect hunting rifles.
I would much rather define the terms based on capability, and not use. So, instead of talking about ‘hunting rifles’ and ‘assault weapons’, we should be discussing fully automatic assault rifles (already highly restricted, but I swear most people believe one was used in Newtown, due to deliberate confusion of terms), semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns, and manually reloaded weapons (bolt and lever action).
This way, the left can’t obscure their intent...while wildly shouting that they aren’t going to take hunting rifles. For example. if they say ‘we want to ban semi-automatic weapons’, hunters will know exactly what is at stake....as opposed to ‘we want to ban assault weapons but you can keep your hunting rifle’, which is a deliberate lie.