[Peet]

"Assault weapons" are being targeted first because they are sort of ominous in appearance and it is easier to spread fear of them.

  "The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's
   confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic
   assault weapons anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to
   be a machine gun can only increase that chance of public support for
   restrictions on these weapons."
                       --  Josh Sugarman, 1988, Violence Policy Center.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Yep, I’m an old dog on this block and I’ve been around it many times. Gun grabbers are sneaky liars first and foremost and that’s all you really need to know about them.