My thoughts -
the left/anti-gun crowd has INTENTIONALLY conflated
the self-loading semi-automatic rifle
with a “machine gun”.
When a lib asked me if I had an assault rifle, I asked them what they considered to be an “assault rifle”.
They pretty much gave me the definition of a machine gun.
When I explained how these semi-autos worked, they said that that’s how their granddad’s deer rifle worked.
I said, “yes, now why do you think that you were told that these rifles were machine guns?”
“dunno”
“YOU WERE INTENTIONALLY LIED TO. NOW THINK ABOUT WHY.”
Lies upon lies...