[bravo whiskey]

don’t care what it looks like. if it can’t fire burst or full auto but only single shot it is NOT and assault weapon. a ruger mini14 and an ar-15 look totally different but fire the same round single shot.

[familyop]

"don’t care what it looks like. if it can’t fire burst or full auto but only single shot it is NOT and assault weapon. a ruger mini14 and an ar-15 look totally different but fire the same round single shot."

Agreed. Well, it's not automatic, if it's only semi-automatic.

But then there will always be assault weapons (that is, weapons with which to assault). They can even outlaw chickens, oil, gas and cars, but there will always be weapons (see tagline). The only distinguishing characteristics between defense and assault weapons are the morality or immorality behind their uses.

Spoiled rotten behavior--immorality--is what needs to be outlawed. If people want a more ideal world, people need to outlaw those who refuse to consider consequences and who lobby for laws that are beside the point. Our Baby Boomer generation and subsequent generations are spoiled rotten.

Our US laws were moral first (see Puritans, Quakers tied to "carttail" whipped, sent home,...), but more recently, Roman (see old Europe, religious edicts, corruption,...).