Um - correlation doesn’t equal causation. There was also a huge reduction in murders and violent crime in general after its heights in the 90s.
If they re-enacted the 1994 ban, the only thing that would reduce the capability at all is the 10 round magazine limit (and the ban grandfathered in the old magazines, of which there are millions out there). It wouldn’t actually limit the proliferation of AR-15/AK-47 style weapons, which is the stated desire, right?
Are you being serious, or making a joke? It usually is lighter springs, polished parts, and sometimes some small changes in geometry. They cost more, and that is why most stock guns don’t have them. Some higher end guns have the customized parts or hand work out of the box.
Again - it’s nothing like a bump stock, but it would fall under your description.
This is total bullshit. You can look it up. The drop happened precipitously when the AWB kicked in and mass shootings picked up at an even higher rate than before when it expired.
I mean it. If one wants a simple, precise replacement for the bump stock ban, you’ve got your criteria. Competition shooting doesn’t require a high rate of fire. Aftermarket parts that increase the rate of fire of a weapon are no big loss to anyone who isn’t trying to kill a lot of people, quickly.
i don’t think white supremacy is just about duping the poors. it’s also self deception used by people as they gain power: i deserve this because i’m better.
basically, people can walk and chew gum at the same time. and people can also be racist and be out for the money too. i’d say most of the notable republican politicians and conservative talking heads are this way
so it should be easy to support then. if it’s not going to change anything, than no problem. let’s try it and see.
and yet, obviously, the nra et al believes it’s going to change things otherwise they wouldn’t waste time fighting it. therefore, let’s definitely do it, and make things better
But if you could still buy AR-15s during the ban - even ones with all the features if they were made “pre-ban” - then how, exactly, did the ban lower mass shootings? It didn’t reduce the number of guns on the market nor availability.
But it isn’t precise. “Enables rapid fire” is any semi-automatic firearm. Something that “enhances rate-of-fire " could mean anything from lighter spring to polishing surfaces. Anything that makes the trigger " nicer” will make it easier to fire and fire accurately. It doesn’t increase it to the level of a bump stock, binary trigger, or forced reset trigger - but they do enhance the rate-of-fire.
Precise would be describing how the item increases or enhances the rate of fire. My description above for banning bumpstocks may not be the most iron clad one for a law, but it would be something along that line.
Literally all timed action shooting sports use a high rate of fire. Even slow fire events like one handed bullseye shooting use triggers that are short and light, which one COULD shoot extremely quickly if you wanted.
We all know where I stand on it. I’m telling you, if you want an actual AWB, you don’t want a repeat of the 1994 one. If you want an half assed one where people can still buy AR-15s and AK-47s, then yes, please re-enact the 1994 one.
Who gives a fuck how? I don’t care if it magically made everyone sing The Flinstones theme when they thought about mass shootings. It just fucking worked:
During the 1994-2004 ban:
In the years after the assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Even including 1999’s Columbine High School massacre – the deadliest mass shooting during the period of the ban – the 1994 to 2004 period saw lower average annual rates of both mass shootings and deaths resulting from such incidents than before the ban’s inception. From 2004 onward:
The data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shooting deaths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004.
No, because, if you had actually read what I wrote, you would have registered that it only affects an off-the-shelf part, not a complete firearm. You know, like a bump stock.
The Northwestern study on the 1994 AWB showed that it would have statistically prevented 20 mass shootings between 2004 and the study. If that’s half-assed, I’ll take it all day.
As always, with every gun wanker, there’s never a regulation that’s perfect enough, so therefore, there can never be any regulation.
It’s the classic ammosexual dodge. Pretend that guns are so complicated that no law can ever be perfect and thus none should be attempted. As though everything we regulate isn’t complicated; yet we manage. Anyone read your local building code, or the NHTSA regs on cars lately? They make gun regulation look like something a child could do. Because, oh wait… it is.
Who cares. I don’t care if competitive shooting is altered to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. Fuck that sport, if that’s what it takes.
Who cares. I don’t care if gun nuts can no longer polish their triggers if it saves thousands of lives.
Fun fact- bump stocks are illegal in Canada, yet somehow we still manage to have competitive shooting and such. Our law is worded pretty much exactly like @DukeTrout ’s suggestion.
Except that they are already illegal in Canada and probably most other western democracies already. This constant retort from some Americans that controlling guns can’t be done because reasons is exhausting to all the other countries that are already pretty good at it.
Not that our systems are perfect, but America could literally xerox Canada or Australia’s gun laws and nearly end mass shootings overnight. Stop acting like it’s impossible.
See that topic for more. They’re the same old de-bunked/pre-bunked arguments have been rolled out by ammosexuals on this and other Internet forums for decades. They could at least offer something creative and new to offset all the Americans who’ve been needlessly killed due to their obsession during that same period.
It’s also a silly assertion. I don’t know much about shooting sports, but I do know that if you are shooting at or close to the max rate of fire of a semi-auto firearm, you’re missing your target. There’s an exception for shotguns and competitive skeet/clays, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
Ok, but any replacement semi-automatic trigger kit would also “enable rapid fire” because any semi-automatic firearm is capable of it.
If you want to craft legislation that has any hopes of getting passed.it needs to apply to the thing you want to ban, and not to apply to a much larger benign category of products because of overly broad language.
Banning them is possible with the correct language that defines how they function, as I mentioned above.
But I haven’t said that. I am using the AWB as an example of what not to do. If you want to ban bump stocks, then you want a law that actually bans them. Not something that only bans certain kinds. If you want a new AWB you want something like CAs or NYs, which are pretty solid, while the 1994 was not. Sure, I guess you get a “victory” of a baby step of legislation, but it wouldn’t actually stop assault weapons from being sold.
I just found this 2004 Bushmaster catalog, from the last year of the ban. The first two images are the Post-Ban models, meaning new guns 100% legal to head down to an FFL and purchase. The third image is what cops can order with none of the restrictions. (I’ll post at the bottom of the post.)
This is my point: you need to craft good, careful and exact legislation that does what you want it to do. It isn’t to say that it’s too hard and can’t be done. It’s to say that that is IS hard but CAN be done.
OK fine - but my reply was to “Competition shooting doesn’t require a high rate of fire.” Which in many sports it does. SASS uses old west “cowboy” guns like single action revolvers and lever actions and they still do rapid fire shooting. The idea there aren’t rapid fire competitions is wrong.
OK. I never said you can’t ban bumpstocks and not still have competitive shooting. I said something overly broad could be interpreted by the ATF to include a lot things that isn’t intended to be banned.
I think I found the law relating to bump stocks in Canada:
1 Any electrical or mechanical device that is designed or adapted to operate the trigger mechanism of a semi-automatic firearm for the purpose of causing the firearm to discharge cartridges in rapid succession.
The way this is worded is - a device is banned if it operates the trigger to cause it to discharge rapidly.
This covers extra parts acting upon the trigger, not the actual trigger itself, which could be modified to be lighter, shorter, and smoother.
So yes, I agree this law seems to be specific enough to ban the items you want to ban, with out being overly broad.
Then maybe google it before making a statement?
I have a friend who competes in USPSA, is an instructor, and is a Grand Master rank in multiple division, which means his scores are in the 95th-100th percentile. He can shoot like a John Wick movie as far as rapid fire goes and he is scoring all Alpha hits (there are three scoring rings, Alpha, Charlie, Delta). Even people who aren’t in his class are making most of their hits on target, albeit a little slower, or a few less hits in the Alpha ring. It takes skill to manage recoil and some gear can help you shoot faster (triggers, compensators, sights/red dots, even loading your own ammo).
So, yahoo doing a mag dump into a berm is hitting nothing. Someone running a competition course is scoring mostly hits, even those who are “average” Class C shooters.
You’re right there is a lot of Nirvana Fallacy out there. But there also is the opposite of that where a lot of frankly dumb, impractical ideas, or ideas that will have a lot of unintended consequences being suggested and then when someone points out those negatives they just get slurs tossed at them.
I’m not engaging in Nirvana Fallacy. Above I said how to specifically ban bump stocks (albeit my language wouldn’t be the final draft, but it shows general idea), and I say if you want to ban AW you want to copy CA or NY, not Federal 1994.
If someone is telling you which laws WOULD work, while telling you which ones would not, then I would take notes and see if maybe the ones that would work make sense. I am sure many of you would like to see a CA or NY style AWB, not the 1994 one . YMMV.
(Scans mentioned above are below. Again the point here is that a 1994 AWB did not ban AW)
Post Ban legal
I say ban anything that isn’t a bolt-action. You don’t need a clip to kill deer. Anything more than a bolt is made for, and only needed for, killing people. This includes all handguns which are, again, only useful for killing people.
Disingenuous challenges to this point from gun enthusiasts will be cheerfully ignored.
