Because we’re talking about 100 year old technology here. From this point on, it will never be particularly difficult for someone with enough motivation to assemble an assault weapon.
If the question was....how many people are capable of building or constructing an AR-15-like weapon....I’d take a reasonable guess that more 25,000 machinists exist within the US who could probably do the job. Course, why limit our worries to people ‘with motivation’ with guns? How many PhD guys can construct a nuke bomb from scratch within the US? 10,000....100,000?
As I’ve been saying for a while. Go ahead and uninvent something.
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Because we’re talking about 100 year old technology here. From this point on, it will never be particularly difficult for someone with enough motivation to assemble an assault weapon.
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Assemble a WEAPON, yes, but an ‘assault weapon’? Please define ‘assault weapon’. (If if just a tongue slip, using the Leftist lingo gives them all they need to turn the tide in the debate).
Assembly? Wasn’t the AK-47 (variants) designed to be rapidly/easily manufactured? Some sheet metal, couple tools and time = fully functional weapon?
Same with any other, no? Take block of aluminum, drill press\mill...
Hell, Lowes\Home Depot have EVERYTHING one needs in the plumbing section to create the crudest form a slap-gun.
Knives/cars? Hell, one needs only a few Molotov cocktails to pull off a truly macabre massacre; no metal detectors needed there!
Bingo! If you think about it, an AR receiver is just a box holding the fire control parts in position, to which are attached the barrel, recoil assembly, mag well, etc. I just removed an old satellite dish from the roof of my house, and I saved part of the support arm because it looks like it will make a dandy lower receiver, with no complex machining required. (Wait - maybe the federal government should ban satellite dish support arms? ;>) If you're not limiting yourself to reproducing an exact copy of a specific design, the sky's the limit...