Time for gun law reforms in the USA?

[killerzX]

mrstickball said:

Mr Khan said:
It's long since overdue. The NRA has a stranglehold on our society and would have us all live in fear of one another, mixing racism and paranoia in good measure. American gun owners make up less than 1% of the world's population, but own 1/3rd of the world's guns, and nobody needs that many guns.

You don't need assault rifles for any reason other than mass murder or trying to overthrow the government, for one. Anyone who owns one should categorically fall under police suspicion.

The AR-15, an assault rifle, is the best selling firearm in America, and has been for awhile. Why, then, don't we see even a moderate amount of crimes being committed with assault rifles?

an AR-15 is not an assault rifle.

first off, assualt weapon is really a made up term, that progressives came up with a few decades ago to push gun control.

by definition, any weapon you use to attack some-one is an assualt weapon. a a 1700's flint lock pistol can be an assault weapon.

but lets for sake off argument say assualt weapon is a justifiable term. by almost all agreed upon standards, an assault weapon is fully automatic.

AR-15 are not fully auto, less than 2-3 percent of all gun are full auto. the amount of crimes committed by PEOPLE weilding full auto's is nearly statistically inmeasurable because it just doesnt happen.

"assault weapons" are incredibly hard to come by, very very expensive. i would press you to find an assault weapon for less than $10,000. then you have to get a tax stamp from the government, registar it with the atf, put your name, records, finger prints on atf records, get a background check, etc.

its an incredibly long and hard proccess to get one