Is .223 even a viable deer hunting round? I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I always understood .223 to be a “varmint round”, better suited to small game.
At any rate, both the author of the article and the guy who wrote the original editorial need to get a clue. There are a number of semi-auto hunting rifles out there, and I seriously doubt those that use them “spray and pray” when they hunt.
Also, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the proposed law would allow ALL semi-auto rifles to be used, not just those darn old scary “AR-15 style” rifles.
The AR-15 is not exclusively .223/5.56.