[Condor51]

"With the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban, these people could now upgrade from a hand gun or rifle, to an AK-47."

Hey jackass, an AK-47 IS a rifle.

[edmond246]

Isn't it convientient that after all the bad things with guns that happened this week. . . :(

[mict42]

Our elected law makers in Washington are totally ignorant of guns, what they can do and what they are for. They are also ignorant of the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment. It looks scary so let's keep it out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

[need_a_screen_name]

"Hey jackass, an AK-47 IS a rifle."



And in this country, a semiautomatic one. There are very few if any true AK-47s in civilian hands.

Stay tuned for the news outlets to show an Iraqi terrorist blasting away with a true AK-47 (machine gun) when they air this story. The idea is to blur the line between machine guns and what Lautenberg would ban with this bill.

In the US we have AK-47 STYLED rifles, NOT AK-47s, but your average soccer mom or MSM watcher would never know that. They think we have rifles on the streets identical to what they have in Iraq. Nope, one squeeze of the trigger, one shot fired. Just like countless hunting rifles in this country.

[El Gato]

Hey jackass, an AK-47 IS a rifle.

Technically a carbine. But that's still a rifle, just a short one.