[Hugin]

But in a willful attempt to violate the spirit of the law, the gun industry continues to manufacture "post-ban" assault weapons - guns identical to those banned except for minor cosmetic changes.

And what exactly was the "spirit of the law"? Since it banned weapons based simply on cosmetic features, how does removing those features violate the "spirit of the law"?

[coloradan]

Because the spirit of the law was to ban all of them, and some of them unfortunately slipped through a "gaping loophole" that gun grabbers suddenly realized existed, right after the law was enacted.

[donmeaker]

Let me get this right- the law was poorly written, had no effect, did not prevent violence.

Gun manufactures obeyed the stupid law.

So now it is not the fault of the people who wrote the law, the people who were wrong, it is the fault of the people who said it wouldn't work (correct) and obeyed the law.

What we have here is a drive to punish people for entering into a conspiracy to obey the law.